Cteating waypoint file from several trips

I must agree with JaVaWa. Making up your own definitions of existing geomatics terms just adds to the confusion. Your comment about it just being semantics illustrates how misguided that is. Semantics is the study of meaning. Specifically, it is "the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning".

Making up your own meanings for existing terms and using these terms interchangeably when they are not interchangeable is not helpful.

You stayed clear of mangling existing computer terminology with your server analogy. It would be helpful if you would do the same with geomatics terminology.

...ken...

Point well taken. Although I frequently find these "branches of linguistics" (the terminology/logic concerned with meaning) more confusing and ambiguous than the actual underlying technology itself.
(Thus I tend to create an alternate "point of reference/path" in order to more easily absorb/learn/understand & retain. ~ Just the way my brain apparently works. We all interpret differently.)

I wasn't trying to as you put it: "Make up my own definitions of existing geomatics." I was merely trying to put the underlying building blocks into perspective by showing them "under a different light." which makes perfect sense to me. And that's what (I believe) the coder of RouteConverter (if I'm not mistaken) has also tried to do with his simplified routing tool. (To simplify the usage of GPS data.) ~ At least that's my perception from reviewing some of the documentation on his website and "evaluating" his software.

"RouteConverter is a free, user friendly GPS tool to display, edit, enrich and convert routes, tracks and waypoints. It helps me to plan routes and consolidate tracks and I hope it could help you."

Just being able to quickly "flip the views" (of a simple track containing with half a dozen "points" or so) from individual "waypoints" to a "track" and then to a "route" in RouteConverter (while instantly seeing it on the satellite map) provides a visual display of the differences between the three, and how they are so closely related. (I haven't seen an elegant visual presentation like this anywhere else.)

It's what most "users" (aka consumers) understand: Everything is "points", just displayed differently. How many times do you see people (on this forum) confused about the difference between tracks and routes (and which to create/use?) It happens all the time. It's because the wording makes little sense to non-technical users. (And that's what many forum members are. ~ Non-technical product owners, many of which are dealing with bugs and are confused for one reason or another.) But once people understand that Routes are really just simplified tracks, fundamentally consisting primarily of two waypoints (no details). And that these "special tracks" (called "routes") need logic and roadmaps (based on a selected method of travel) to work & guide the user from one point to another, it all begins to "make sense"....

In closing (my final post here)... Personally, I don't really care how someone understands, as long as they DO understand.