Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] .tpo route to Garmin

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

This isn't a file we can handle very well.

I've never used NT Topo, but at a glance in the code, tpo3 files seem to be
broken into chunks that contain position-y things.

Waypoints
Routes (which don't really contain positions - they contain linking
informaton to Waypoints)
Map notes
Symbols
Text Labels
Compass Symbols

This file has two map notes, 66 symbols, and 210 text lables.  Since these
all have position info, we load them as waypoints, too, but there's no route
information that we can find in this file.

As it's a reverse-engineered format, there may be some nuance here we didn't
capture, but that's why we can't read it.    As current NG Topo supports GPX
natively, I don't see a lot of development going into the Topo3 reader to
try to unravel why we disagree on the "routiness" of that file.

Honestly, for a one-time need, I'd pull the points into a a program that let
me build routes from the points like Mapsource or EasyGPS or such and just
make routes from the "obvious" connect-the-dot patterns.

Help has been fixed since the last beta build.

RJL

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Dana Hague <d-m...@co...> wrote:

> I did select the route option.  If I check waypoints also, I get a bunch of
> waypoints (but not enough to define or illustrate the route).
>
> gpsbabel -r -i tpo3 -f C:/TOPO!/Harriman trails.tpo -o gdb -F C:/Documents
> and Settings/Dana/Desktop/harriman test.gdb -o gpx -F
> C:/DOCUME~1/Dana/LOCALS~1/Temp/qt_temp.Hp3260
>
> Translation successful
>
>
> Maybe I'm going about this wrong.  The goal is to get this trail map into
> the GPS, overlaid on the topo map I already have.  It doesn't need to be
> routable, and if the routes converted to tracks that would be OK, I guess.
> Or a polish file I could run into cgpsmapper.
>
> None of the "help" buttons seem to work in the beta either.
>
> -Dana
>
>
> At 01:13 AM 11/19/2009, Robert Lipe wrote:
>
> This format doesn't read routes from the .tpo if you didn't select the
> "route" option.  If that doesn't biring joy, include a test file and exact
> commands issued that delivered the disappointing results.
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Dana Hague <d-m...@co...> wrote:
>
> I have a bunch of routes from National Geographic Topo! version 3, which I
> want to get into my Garmin 60 CSx.  I've tried importing the .tpo file and
> exporting it to Garmin .gdb, but all I get are waypoints, not the routes
> (at least that's all I see when I load it into Mapsource).
>
> I've tried to convert it into .gpx and view it in GPSMapEdit, but that says
> it's an empty file.
>
> This is using the GPSBabel 1.3.7 beta.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> -Dana
>
>
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