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Posted by Mostirreverent How do I create and load custom poi's to my Garmin I have a garmin nuvi 260W which I found had a 500 max Favorites limit (which sucks because using Google Map's send feature was sooooooo easy) and a Mac (powerbook pro running OSX 10.5). Now I'm stuck having to make csv files which I find a real pain. I used map to find longitude and latitude coordinates and GPS files in Google Earth file format. In GE, you can select how they show up (Preferences). Though even in "digital degrees", you still get one degree symbol at the end of the coordinate. You can simply select the numbers without the degree (which is only on the end) and drag it to word or excel). Otherwise, when you drag them into word, you get an infinity symbol where the degree symbol was. I like word because well, excel sucks for formatting and dragging. I then paste my word table into excel. Also, it is easier to put quotations around the address and phone number so they show up on separate lines. Street City, ST, Zip Phone I make four columns Longitude Latitude Name Description Description is fore the address, phone and contact etc. Using a Database This allows you to have all of you POI's in one place, and to export them by category, (i.e. making a .csv file for each export). I use file maker. I have a field for each of the 4 columns. It offers the ability to also have fields for category or starting area (i.e. if you have a group of POI's that you plan to visit from a common place). I can also group them by whatever other filed I have such as product or state etc. Perform a find based on one of your criteria. Sect export (filmmaker will only export the found set). Select CSV Select the fields in the following order: Longitude Latitude Name Description Than using POI loader, find the folder you exported. That is it. Some other tricks: I also made some tool buttons (that you can also make using available macros on the web) to add quotation marks around words. This way, I just drag stuff into the description field and add quotes later. If you are using filemaker, just make a script with clear, and insert word. I'm lazy, so I made two scripts. 1) Putting the quotes at the beginning and end of words, and 2) 2) For putting two quotes between words "??. "Street""City, ST, Zip""Phone" Script 1 Open script maker. Click on clear Unclick "select all" Click on insert word Click specify Type " Script 2 Open script maker. Click on clear Unclick "select all" Click on insert word Click specify Type "" Now in layout mode make two buttons. Double click on each button Select run script And assign it a script with the specify button |
Posted by User Re: How do I create and load custom poi's to my Garmin I do not understand... Why don't you use this: http://www.gps-data-team.com/convert.php Cheers |