July 14, 2023

Garmin FIT files - "gpsbabel"

This is C++ code that deals with a myriad of GPS related file formats.

As usual, I cloned this from github. I found this code clean, simple, and easy to understand. I did not try to build it. I have an executable already in the Fedora packages. 

git clone https://github.com/GPSBabel/gpsbabel.git
cd gpsbabel
Open the file garmin_fit.cc and look for GarminFitFormat::read() and away you go.

The file is 1314 lines and also supports writing FIT files, so the code is clean, compact, and straightforward.

Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!

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