Erm, what do I do with a .gdb file someone has sent me?

[Auntie Helen]

A nice German chappie, who rarely checks his email, has just sent me a file with a couple of Tracks from Kempen to his house - we're meeting for coffee tomorrow in Schwalmtal, along with Jedrik OTP, and for our Velomobiles to hang out a bit.

I had planned a couple of tracks myself but his local knowledge will probably be considerably better. Unfortunately the file type is a .gdb and I have no idea what this is (neither does my iMac). GPSies.com, which can usually open pretty much anything, can't open this file.

Anyone have any ideas?

If anyone wants to have a play with it, the file is on www.auntiehelen.co.uk/kempen-schagen.gdb  He says there are two tracks within that one file so the plot thickens!

[delthebike]

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/

Will convert from gdb to gpx.

[Auntie Helen]

Sorry, I'm a numpty, GPSVisualiser came to the rescue.

Looks like it was a Basecamp file and I don't have Basecamp which is why my Mac was puzzled.

[Feanor]

For future reference, .gdb files are Garmin Database files, and can be opened in Mapsource or Basecamp.

Like GPX files, they can contain Waypoints, Tracks and Routes.

[frankly frankie]

And (rather like Word or Excel) there are versions of the format which are not backwards-compatible.  Save as v2 if you want it to be universally acceptable.