Problems Creating POI

[Jacqie]

I believe that I am creating a POI for my Garmin C340 in accordance with instructions found in the POI Updater from Garmin.

This is what I'm uploading:

-91.20070,31.58270,Gold Bell, Lake Bruin, Tensas, LA

However, when I ask the GPS to show me the map location, the result is no where near the actual location.

Anyone see an error in the format or, have suggestions on what I might be doing incorrectly?

Thanks - Jacqie

[swing]

I'm not sure you meant to post this in the Traffic forum, but irrespective, I wonder if it's simply that the co-ords are wrong...

I would put Lake Bruin at

-91.227722,32.001671,Gold Bell, Lake Bruin, Tensas, LA

However, these co-ords are still only roughly in the right area - you will need to refine them to get to "Gold Bell", whatever that is.
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[Jacqie]

[quote="swing"]I'm not sure you meant to post this in the Traffic forum, but irrespective, I wonder if it's simply that the co-ords are wrong...

I would put Lake Bruin at

-91.227722,32.001671,Gold Bell, Lake Bruin, Tensas, LA[/quiote]

Thanks, and I apologize for posting in the incorrect forum! I should have looked!

The coordinates I posted were fine tuned for Gold Bell. Perhaps I need to drive the route to see if it takes me to the destination.

Jacqie

[MaFt]

you have too many columns... you need 4:

longitude,latitude,name,details

eg:

-91.20070,31.58270,Gold Bell,"Lake Bruin, Tensas, LA"

putting the details inside quotation marks " " allows you to use commas without actually creating another 'column'.

as swing suggests though, it all depends on the accuracy of the co-ordinates ;)

remember to put the coords at the entrance road if it is somewhere off road so that the sat nav will know where to go!

MaFt

[Jacqie]

Thanks for all the tips!

It appears that the coordinates that I am using are NAD83 picked up from GNIS website. Apparently, the C340 does not properly recognize them.

This is a bummer!

Jacqui

[Andy_P]

Is this co-ordinate converter of any use?
http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/

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