There are a few reasons:

• The development of NH-Top50Trans, TrackCon, ITNConv and Map&Guide Motorrad Tourenplaner was stopped or discontinued by the authors.
• I found gpsbabel too cryptic.
• I felt like coding.

I like Java. Thus it has been more fun for me. And I wanted to use a more current Java version. This made me developing much faster. To start the project took me just a few days.

The have been a lot of requests and a lot of arguments speak for distributing RouteConverter as a web application. With a long term perspective this the direction of my development.

The source code is available in a Subversion Repository. It allows anonymous read access. Please contact me for write access.

Use this command to retrieve the current development version:

> svn co http://www.routeconverter.de/svn/RouteConverter/trunk/ RouteConverter

All stable versions like for example the version 1.29 are accessed as follows:

> svn co http://www.routeconverter.de/svn/RouteConverter/tags/1.29/ RC1.29