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But I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that you need to use Windows if you want to do any serious mapmaking.

This is my feeling on this as well.. Although I use a mac for all my day-to-day computer work, a PC has far better tools than mac for working with a GPS. (Although Garmin is getting a little better with mac support than years ago, third party tools are nowhere near the same).

So a mac version of gpx2img might happen someday, but i wouldn't hold my breath..

Can you even get the dll anymore since he stopped doing all the commercial versions?

Perhaps not.. I purchased the DLL years ago when I started gpx2img as just a personal project to be used among a few friends. A future version of gpx2img will someday no longer rely on cgpsmapper though.

If it supported routing it would be REALLY interesting.

Its being looked into as a 'someday' project.. Right now it would either require a very expensive version of the cgpsmapper DLL I use to create the IMG files or for me it implement IMG file creation myself based on some documentation out there/other open source projects. So I'm not making any guarantees, but it is being looked at..

[gpx2img is available for $20USD, but from now until Sept 23, by purchasing through the 'buy' page on the website, you will save $7USD off your order.]

Hi all,

I'd like to let you all know that this morning I have released version 1.0 of gpx2img (http://gpx2img.com)!

gpx2img is designed to allow simple conversion of gpx files into Garmin compatible IMG files. Rather than the free applications out there which require 10-15 steps and a lot of file editing and a few different applications, gpx2img allows you to convert your gpx files in just 2 steps! Step 1: Open your gpx files (can load multiple files at once) in gpx2img. Step 2) Click the "Convert" button!

gpx2img:

• creates transparent maps which can be loaded on top of other map products such as topo or city, etc.
• allows editing of waypoints and tracks to change names and types
• allows creation of waypoints
• supports TYP files for creating maps with custom track colors/widths
• allows setting zoom levels of maps
• many other features

gpx2img is available as a demo from my website (http://gpx2img.com). The demo places restrictions in that it only allows 2 gpx files to be loaded at one time, forces a wait of 15 seconds before conversion is done and places a watermark 'city' on created maps.

gpx2img is available for $20USD, but from now until Sept 23, by purchasing through the 'buy' page on the website, you will save $7USD off your order.

If you have any questions, issues or suggestions, let me know either by replying to this post of emailing me at [email protected]