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LT
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 Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:49 am Post subject: Present Location |
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Looked on FAQ's not there...
Is it possible, where you are as a favourite? I'll give you the scenario.
The garage where I have my car serviced is on a long road, and the postcode covers a big area, and it has no actual number (you can't put house names or business names in can you?) so if you put number 0, or number 99 for example, you'd get two places quite far apart. If I get to the place, and wanted to store where I was, can I?
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PaulB2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| I believe if you press the scroll wheel for 2 seconds you get the option to save that location - never tried it yet. |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: |
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yes, it works and it adds it to the 'my favourites' list. however, at the moment there's no way to get this data out of the i3 to put into a custom poi unless, i believe, if you have mapsource (?) it can be done
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hazee
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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The SDK available from Garmin certainly allows you to extract data (including favourites) from the i3, but it's a pig to use - the documentation sucks, and this is only really suitable for dedicated programmers.
A much better and simpler option that I discovered, is a free program on the net called EasyGPS that can extract and save favourites from the i3 - it explicitly supports the i3 by name.
When importing the data, it simply imports the whole list of favourites and shows them on screen arranged graphically according to their relative positions.
From here, you can save the data to your PC as a .gpx file. This is in XML format, but it's plain text, so you can view it in Notepad or whatever. You could then either manually re-edit it into CSV format if it's just a handful of points you're after, or alternatively, it should be pretty straightforward to write a script that converts the whole lot. Either way, the resultant CSV file can then be put through POILoader for re-export to the device.
It's worth noting that while EasyGPS has its own export function, I found this to be rather more hit and miss. It exports the data back to the "My Favourites" folder (unlike POILoader, which puts points in "Custom Points"), but doesn't erase the existing data first, so you end up with a bunch of duplicated data - in capitals.
But even if you have no intention of exporting data, it's worth having this program just to make a backup of your saved points.
(And no - I don't have anything to do with EasyGPS.) |
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Almahadeus
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| hazee wrote: | The SDK available from Garmin certainly allows you to extract data (including favourites) from the i3, but it's a pig to use - the documentation sucks, and this is only really suitable for dedicated programmers.
A much better and simpler option that I discovered, is a free program on the net called EasyGPS that can extract and save favourites from the i3 - it explicitly supports the i3 by name.
When importing the data, it simply imports the whole list of favourites and shows them on screen arranged graphically according to their relative positions.
From here, you can save the data to your PC as a .gpx file. This is in XML format, but it's plain text, so you can view it in Notepad or whatever. You could then either manually re-edit it into CSV format if it's just a handful of points you're after, or alternatively, it should be pretty straightforward to write a script that converts the whole lot. Either way, the resultant CSV file can then be put through POILoader for re-export to the device.
It's worth noting that while EasyGPS has its own export function, I found this to be rather more hit and miss. It exports the data back to the "My Favourites" folder (unlike POILoader, which puts points in "Custom Points"), but doesn't erase the existing data first, so you end up with a bunch of duplicated data - in capitals.
But even if you have no intention of exporting data, it's worth having this program just to make a backup of your saved points.
(And no - I don't have anything to do with EasyGPS.) |
Thanks. Looks interesting. |
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Ash10
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| hazee wrote: | | The SDK available from Garmin certainly allows you to extract data (including favourites) from the i3, but it's a pig to use - the documentation sucks |
Bit of an understatement, that... ;)
| hazee wrote: | | A much better and simpler option that I discovered, is a free program on the net called EasyGPS that can extract and save favourites from the i3 - it explicitly supports the i3 by name. |
That sounds quite interesting - thanks for posting the link, I'll have to take a look  |
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MattW
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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EasyGPS is a great little application.
I've used it for years to back up my Magellan Sportrack and just tried it with my new (3 days old) i3 (which incidentally, I think is great for the money!).
It seems to work really well with the i3 (at least as far as downloading goes - as noted previously, uploading is better if you convert to csv and use poi loader).
It also crosses my ming that EasyGPS would be useful for submitting speed camera's and poi's to PocketGPSworld - just do the long press on the click wheel to save the location and download it when you get back. If you right click on a waypoint in the left pane of EasyGPS and select 'edit' you can see it's properties including lat and long.
I've just started work on a little python script to convert the .gpx file to csv - anyone who wants it will be welcome when it's done
best
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MattW
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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And you can enter the lat and long onto google maps (http://maps.google.com/) search box:
in the form:
N 53.483527 W 2.270672
you can check where your waypoint is on the road.
(if you post the coordinates above, you'll see where I work!)
cheers
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Ash10
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| MattW wrote: | | I've just started work on a little python script to convert the .gpx file to csv - anyone who wants it will be welcome when it's done |
This'll do the job:
| Code: | FILENAME = raw_input('GPX to convert (omit .GPX suffix):')
GPX = file(FILENAME + '.gpx', 'rt').read()
CSV = ""
while GPX.find('<wpt') >= 0:
GPX = GPX[GPX.find('<wpt') + 4:]
LATITUDE = GPX[GPX.find('lat=') + 5:GPX.find('" ')]
LONGITUDE = GPX[GPX.find('lon=') + 5:GPX.find('">')]
NAME = GPX[GPX.find('<name>') + 6:GPX.find('</name>')]
CSV += '%s,%s,"%s"\n' % (LONGITUDE, LATITUDE, NAME)
file(FILENAME + '.csv', 'wt').write(CSV) |
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MattW
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:45 am Post subject: |
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cool
I'll still work on mine though!
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LT
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Well back to the original question, and holding the scroll button, whilst in map view mode, seems to do exactly as I wanted.
Well dont that man, and thanks! |
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NiTrO
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: Code |
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@Ash10
Hi...How do I run your code?... |
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MattW
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Code |
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| NiTrO wrote: | @Ash10
Hi...How do I run your code?... |
First, you'll need to install Python for windows:
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/python-2.4.2.msi
Then run it from a DOS prompt (preferably in the directory where your saves gpx file resides).
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MattW
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, how I wish this forum allowed editing......
Further to my last post
You'll need to cut and paste Ash's code into a text file and save it as whateverNameYouLike.py (for ease of use save it into the same directory as your gpx file). If you use notepad, make sure that it doesn't append .txt to the file name - if it does, just edit the file name to remove the .txt (ignoring the dire warnings about it being unable to run etc.)
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NiTrO
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject: @MattW |
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Hi ..Thanks for your quick reply....will do as you suggest later this afternoon...
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