Bug 326314

Summary: Use gpsbabel to open foreign file formats
Product: [Applications] marble Reporter: Dennis Nienhüser <nienhueser>
Component: generalAssignee: Mohammed Nafees <nafees.technocool>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: task Keywords: junior-jobs
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2013/5820716041633792
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Description Dennis Nienhüser 2013-10-20 07:52:37 UTC 
gpsbabel supports a vast variety of file formats which, once converted to .gpx or .kml, can easily be displayed by Marble. Many people do not know about gpsbabel though, and using it forces you to use the command line and know things about file formats which many people are not comfortable to look into.

- detect whether gpsbabel is installed on the system (available in $PATH)
- if yes, extend the File => Open dialog for additional extensions 
- if such a file is selected, use gpsbabel to convert it to a temporary file and open that with Marble
Comment 1 Dennis Nienhüser 2013-11-18 09:09:25 UTC 
See http://www.gpsbabel.org/capabilities.html for a list of file formats gpsbabel supports