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Apr 2, 2007 
I am the owner (happy) of a Garmin 305 Edge GPS, but rather quickly noted that the product quality was not reproduced on the software which accompanies it.
Even if the main basic functionalities are present, the Training Center tool is missing export features towards market standards, mainly GPX and the KML, respectively an exchange format between GPS products and a representation format for Google Earth.
On one hand, there are some small bugs but not blocking, on the other hand, exporting towards GPX is annoying when missing and used to exchange traces with the community or other equipment. I thus write the few translators available here below, from the internal format of Garmin Training Center towards both GPX and KML as well as a GPX to race translator. They are written in Perl and thus easily executable on the majority of the operating systems of the market, natively on Mac OS X and Linux, but requiring Cygwin installation on Windows.
- history to GPX converter (hst to gpx)
- history to KML converter for Google Earth
- GPX towards race converter (GPX to CRS)
[update May the 19th 2007] Received by email from Brian Davis (Denver, Colorado) this is a corrected version of the GPX to CRS converter, for the new 3.2 release of the Training Center 3.2 : GPS-GPX_to_Garmin_Course_TCX.pl this script uses the Tcl/Tk extension for Windows, if you want my original script modified : convert-gpx-to-crs-3.2.pl.
If you like these tools, please let me know.
