Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TMS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TMS to another file type
To convert TMS Map files to another format, you need Tableau Desktop or other Data software.
Convert a file to TMS
To convert other file formats to the "Map Source / Game Save" file type, you need software like Tableau Desktop or a similar tool.
About TMS files
A .tms file is a highly fragmented extension that can represent entirely different formats depending on the originating software. Primarily, it serves as a Tableau Map Source file. Created by Tableau Software, these files contain XML code that directs Tableau on how to retrieve background maps from a WMS (Web Map Service) or Mapbox server. In other common scenarios, a .tms file acts as a game save for the popular racing game TrackMania (stored internally as a GZIP archive), a configuration file for Teraoka/DIGI electronic retail scales (often UTF-8 text), or a golf swing analysis file used by TrackMan golf radar hardware. Because the .tms extension is shared across GIS mapping, gaming, retail hardware, and golf analytics, typical online converters fail completely. They assume a one-size-fits-all approach and often corrupt the file. Furthermore, files like the Teraoka scale data or the Topography measurement study (which uses Microsoft Compound formatting via Digital Surf MountainsMap) are deeply proprietary. Extracting their data normally requires the exact original hardware or a costly software license. To work around these limitations, users often attempt to convert mapping .tms files to readable text or extract TrackMania data. While you cannot blindly convert a map source to an image format like .JPG without rendering it in Tableau first, you can extract the underlying XML or GZIP data. Since standard converters fail, this format is notoriously difficult to process. Many .tms files contain embedded formats.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TMS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TMS file to MP4, EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, RUN, SH, BAT or CMD, you can use Tableau Desktop or similar software from the "Map Source and Game Save" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to TMS, try Tableau Desktop or another comparable tool in the "Map Source and Game Save" category.
The TMS 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 TMS converter.