[Gpsbabel-code] PCX5 File format

[Ken L. <kle...@ea...>]

I notice that someone (in the Groundspeak forums) had wanted to be able to 
have the waypoint symbol in Mapsource be the GEOCACHE symbol when using 
the  PCX5 file format.  If in the PXC5 (.WPT) file format, you would add 
after the description a 0.0  8255 then when the file is imported into 
mapsource, you would get the GEOCACHing symbol.  The 0.0 is for the 
Proximity value (0.0 means unknown) and the 8255 is the waypoint  value for 
a GEOCACHE.

I wrote some of my own code to generate the PCX5 file format and "found" 
the magic number.  I also used 8239 for virtual caches (Ghost town symbol).

I haven't download gpsbabel yet as the download page is down for 
maint.  But it sounds great.

Would someone be willing to share the format of the Mapsource .MPS 
file.  Mainly for waypoints, but ...


Ken Leidner                     kle...@ea...
Systems Programmer