NMEA is a standard which is widely used for representing GPS position information in textual form. This standard defines a set of one-line sentences which are independent from each other and contain information such as position, velocity and time.
Given the broad range of applications which are capable of understanding NMEA data, I decided to create a tool for manually drawing a path on a map representing an object or person moving around while carrying a GPS device which gives them their current position at regular time intervals (e.g. once every second). This path can then be stored as an NMEA file, i.e., as a text file containing NMEA sentences which represent the position information for all points in the path.
The tool is called NMEA Generator. I hope you will put it to good use, and should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write a comment below or send me an e-mail. Enjoy it! :-)
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Although it doesn't do exactly what I'm looking for there may still be a way:
I'm trying to re-create my (f)actual route during 10+ years of travelling through about 110 developing countries, and was looking for a way to connect the places I have visited using the exact roads that I took using public transport only, which means they're not the fastest, shortest, or anything. So I hoped to find a way to mark town A and town C using a sub-optimal road through town B.
Now I see I can get NMEA points extremely easy with the generator, but I wonder if there's a way to not simply generate a straight line but to actually follow the road between those points. If I need to be more specific to find that road then I could simply add a few more points on the map, re-create that leg, see if that's what I need, and download it to file.
My question: Is such a think possible with NMEA Generator? And, if not, do you know any tool that can do such a thing?
I unfortunately do not know a tool which does what you want. There are tools which allow you to create a path on the map in the way you described, but I have so far not seen one which can generate NMEA files as well.