RouteConverter 3.7 is ready

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RouteConverter 3.7 is available: https://www.routeconverter.com/downloads/

New features

• Google Maps Timeline: reads the on-device exports from the Google Maps app (location-history.json / Timeline.json) without dropping points (#351)
  
• RTZ route exchange format (IEC 61174, used by ECDIS ship navigation): read for everyone, write for sponsors
  
• GPX track segments are preserved when reading and writing. The map and the elevation profile leave a gap where a segment ends, and the time across the gap no longer counts toward the duration
  
• Select and delete pause positions (speed 0), optionally shifting the times of the following positions so the track runs on without the pauses (#333)
  
• Font-size setting for the user interface; on Windows the default follows the display scaling (#335, #338)
  
• Coverage overlay (View menu): shows on the map where maps, routing, elevation and POI data are available
  
• Command line: new convert command with explicit source/target formats, a one-line JSON result and distinct exit codes
  
• New ways to install: RouteConverterLinux.deb for Debian/Ubuntu with bundled Java, a Homebrew cask for macOS (brew install --cask cpesch/routeconverter/routeconverter), and a .sha256 checksum next to every download
  
• The update dialog opens a release page with context instead of the raw download directory, uses buttons instead of links, nudges harder on very old versions and shows an end-of-life notice for Java 8 and RouteConverter 2.x
  

Changes

• Ascent and descent totals ignore elevation changes below 5 m, which suppresses GPS noise; totals are lower than before and closer to other tools (#409)
  

Fixes

• macOS: the app runs on macOS 11 and later again (#393)
  
• Dates and times now follow the system's region settings instead of a 12-hour, month-first format (#415, thanks xyzlabc)
  
• BRouter kept using routing data downloaded once and never refreshed it, so roads that had reopened since stayed blocked (Blue Ridge Parkway); routing data older than 7 days is now downloaded again. Offline routing also skips a downloaded area that has no roads for the route (#423, thanks Kumba42)
  
• Windows: the program no longer unpacks 60 MB on every start, which made startup slow (#372)
  
• Windows Portable: the launcher could not start the program (#373)
  
• Selecting or deselecting many positions froze the program; drawing large tracks, routes and waypoint lists on the map is faster (#356)
  
• Copy and paste garbled descriptions with umlauts and other non-ASCII characters (#340)
  
• "Complete coordinates" overwrote positions that already had coordinates (#339)
  
• Microsoft Flight Simulator flight plans (.pln): altitudes are read and written in feet, as MSFS stores them. Before, a cruise waypoint at FL360 showed as 36,000 m instead of 10,973 m, and .pln files written by earlier versions carry meters in the feet field — re-export them to fix their altitudes (#417)
  
• OutdoorActive maps showed no tiles (#395)
  
• The world-map background left a grey hole after startup (#376)
  
• BRouter defaulted to the slow "moped" profile (#341)
  
• Downloads: an interrupted download that was resumed could replace a good local file with a truncated one (#383), temporary files were left behind (#342), the download table could freeze, the remaining size counted only one routing area, and a timeout was reported as "offline"
  
• With Arabic or Persian language settings, times were written with Eastern Arabic digits, so other programs could not read the files
  
• With Turkish language settings, file types were not recognized
  
• Some large files (for example a 6.7 MB .hst track) were read as empty (regression in 3.6)
  
• Dragging a position on the map follows the cursor again and grabs it at the pin tip
  
• Deleting many positions at once is much faster
  
• Running out of memory while inserting a route with GraphHopper is reported instead of failing silently (#337)
  
• Failed elevation lookups are reported instead of skipped silently, and Google is available again as elevation fallback
  

Known issues

• Windows with display scaling above 100%: text and icons are not rendered at native resolution; use the new font-size setting to enlarge the text (#343)