Landmarks

The Landmarks feature allows you to save, retrieve and display on the map various items like locations and paths.

The Landmarks Menu gives you an easy access to all landmarks related features.

Click on the “Landmarks” menu to display the sub-menu. You'll then find the following items:

• “Explore landmarks” opens the Landmarks Explorer that allows you to manage your saved landmarks;
• “Create a landmark” allows you to create new landmarks;
• “Displayed landmarks” shows the displayed landmarks list that allows you to manage displayed landmarks (available only is landmarks are displayed);
• “Search a location” allows you to search for a place (by name or coordinates).

The following settings are also available in the Landmarks menu:

• “Landmarks labels” controls whether or not to display the labels of landmarks displayed on the map;
• “Target information” controls whether or not to display the target information box (if any landmark is targeted).

A waypoint is a particular location marked on the map and the most common type of landmark.

By default, they are only represented by a small purple circle, but they can be named and have different colors or icons.

From the Landmarks Menu, you can specify if the names of waypoints must be displayed on the map. You can also configure the display size from the application settings.

How to create a waypoint?
How to edit a waypoint?
How to use custom icons?

Waypoints can be grouped into sets allowing an easier management. Sets are very useful when handling many waypoints of a common theme.

How to create a set of waypoints?
How to add, move or delete points of a set?

Routes are ordered lists of waypoints. All points of routes can be edited like any waypoint. Routes are mainly useful when preparing a journey.

Routes are displayed with a line joining all the waypoints.

From the Landmarks Menu, you can specify if the names of waypoints must be displayed on the map. You can also configure the display line thickness from the application settings.

How to create a route?
How to add, move or delete points of a route?

Tracks are lists of locations representing a path. A track can be composed of multiple sub-lists, called segments. Additionally, a track can contains waypoints giving informations about the surrounding places.

Tracks are displayed as simple lines. If the locations contain time information, the time of the bounds are also displayed.

You can configure the display line thickness from the application settings.

How to manually create a track?

How to search places by name or coordinates?
How to measure distances and bearings?

The application allows you to import placemarks (waypoints, routes, tracks, areas) from various file formats and display them on the map. Here is the list of all supported file formats.

Please check the notes and requirements for each format.

Supported file formats and types of placemarks	Import	Export
GPX (GPS Exchange Format) (*.gpx) Waypoints, routes, tracks Common GPS data format for software applications.	Yes, see here	Yes, see here
KML/KMZ (*.kml, *.kmz) Waypoints, routes, tracks, areas Common GPS data format for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based two-dimensional maps.	Yes1, see here	Yes, see here
CSV/TSV (*.csv, *.tsv) Waypoints, routes, tracks, areas Delimited text file that uses a comma to separate tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text. Each line of the file is a data record. Each record consists of one or more fields, separated by commas.	Yes, see here	Yes, see here
Shapefile SHP (*.shp) Waypoints, routes, tracks, areas Popular geospatial vector data format developed by Esri for geographic information system (GIS) software.	Yes, see here	No
GeoJSON (*.json, *.geojson) Waypoints, routes, tracks, areas Open standard format designed for representing simple geographical features, along with their non-spatial attributes.	Yes, see here	No
IGC (Flight Data Format) (*.igc) Tracks Open standard format published by the IGC (International Gliding Commission) containing flight data from FAI flight recorders.	Yes, see here	No
OziExplorer PLT (*.plt) Tracks	Yes, see here	No
OziExplorer WPT (*.wpt) Waypoints	Yes, see here	No
Geocaching LOC (*.loc) Waypoints	Yes, see here	No
AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf) Waypoints, routes, tracks, areas CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs.	No	Yes, see here

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How to import landmarks? (*.gpx / *.kml / *.kmz / *.plt / *.wpt / *.loc files)
How to export landmarks? (*.gpx / *.kml / *.kmz / *.dxf files)

How to import placemarks? (*.csv / *.tsv files)
How to export placemarks? (*.csv / *.tsv files)