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house4

GPS: Garmin GPSmap 62stc

Formatting Stubborn POI Files

Hi folks.

I just learned something today that should be noted for Garmin POI files. A lot of European downloads were not working for me, and I posted the problem in the Garmin forum. The app developer said that the data has to be formatted using UTF-8 only. The POIs won't import using any other character set, depending on the model, etc. So, open it up in a good text editor and reformat using UTF-8 and you're golden.

HTH for those that are still stumped. I was trying to bring these into Garmin BaseCamp and most of them wouldn't go through, as they were formatted using Central European ISO-Latin 2. I am not sure if GPS Data Team outputs using that format, or the data is entered using that format...I'm not sure of the engine...but it has to be changed.

Cheers

veyder

GPS: Navman

PHP code

If you know PHP, you can use the following code to convert from Latin-2 to UTF-8:

Code:

<?php
iconv("ISO-8859-2","UTF-8//TRANSLIT//IGNORE", $string);
?>

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