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Every community needs a retirement home. deprecated/ is ours. This is where formats get moved once they become unused or are little used and problematic to refit into newer infrastructure. Formats are moved here so they remain examples for future developers or so that they can be revived by interested parties and updated in the future. As I am writing this, the formats being deleted are each under .02% (yes, the decimal is in the correct place) of our expected users. This allows us to modernize our core systems without getting bogged down in reimplementing formats that nobody[1] has used in years. It also allows us to more easily bring back formats if we were wrong on how popular something was. Epitaths * cetus, copilot, coto, gcdb, geoniche, gpilots, gpspilot, mag_pdb, magnav, mapopolis, palmdoc, pathaway, pdbfile, quovadis: Palm/OS has been in decline for years. We've seen no list traffic about these in years. Many of them have particularly grubby internal implementations. None of these programs have been updated since the demise of Palm/OS. * hsa_ndv: Zero list traffic from anyone other than original author, who has quit responding to email, contributed it ten years ago. Use of "raw" expat (which we're removing), strange structure, poor test suite coverage. Company that created HSA is gone. * coastexp: Extremely little use (three posts since submitted ten years ago, zero in the last five years) Uses expat. Probably easier to revive than hsa_ndv if there's interest. * msroute: Long a problematic format when it was added in 2005. It read Microsoft AutoRoute 2002 files. It somewhat worked until about 2007 but pretty much every annual Microsoft update broke it. As AutoRoute and Streets & Trips has added GPX, this format has outlived its usefulness. * psp: If desktop Microsoft S&T from 2002 was dead (see msroute) PocketStreets 2002 Pushpin is even more dead. Not used or made in years. * axim_gpb: Dell Axim Navigation (their iPaq-wannabe) hasn't been used or made in years. Usage stats are near zero. R.I.P. -- Robert Lipe [1] That's in the purely mathematical sense, not a personal one. We have millions of users...