GPS Converter

Extract text from GPS files

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How to extract text from your GPS file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GPS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert GPS to another file type

To convert your GPS file to another format, you need GX Developer or other Developer software.

Convert a file to GPS

To convert other file formats to the "Automation Project File" file type, you need software like GX Developer or a similar tool.

About GPS files

The .GPS file extension is a classic example of a 'namespace collision' where one file type serves two completely different industries. Statistically, it is most often a PLC Programming Project created by Mitsubishi GX Developer. These files contain logic, ladder diagrams, and configuration data for industrial automation hardware. They are proprietary, binary, and notoriously difficult to parse without the specific $1,000+ software suite.

However, for many consumers, a .GPS file is exactly what it sounds like: a raw Global Positioning System data log. These are often generated by older GPS trackers, data loggers, or navigation apps that dump raw NMEA 0183 strings or proprietary binary track data into a file. The friction here is immediate: standard mapping tools like Google Earth or Strava typically require GPX or KML formats and will reject a raw .GPS file.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Navigation/Mapping: If your file contains coordinates, convert it to GPX (GPS Exchange Format) for broad compatibility with Garmin and web viewers, or KML for Google Earth.
For Industrial Automation: If this is a Mitsubishi project, conversion is limited. You generally must use GX Developer to export logic to PDF for documentation.
For Simulation: If related to GPSS World, the file is a source code script that needs the specific Minuteman Software compiler.

Convert.Guru analyzes your GPS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted GPX, KML, KMZ, GPJ, CSV, JPG, GSP, PDF, JPEG, TXT, UTM, UTC and DMS files.

FAQ

If you want to convert GPS file to UTM, GPX, KML, UTC, DMS, SHP, KMZ, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF or ECW, you can use GX Developer or similar software from the "PLC Programming Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or KML files to GPS, try GX Developer or another comparable tool in the "PLC Programming Project" category.

The GPS Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our GPS converter.