Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Text to mapsource mps

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

Hi, Helen.

> upload them to Mapsource. Looking at the Babel site, it seemed that creating
> a xcvs style file + a txt file containing a formatted set of data from the
> spreadsheet and using babel to convert this to mps format would be the way

It seems like you're close, but have one mismatch:

> IFIELD	LAT_DIRDECIMAL, "", "%c%f"			
> IFIELD	LON_DIRDECIMAL, "", "%c%f"			
> 
> And fed in:
> 
> arethu	12345678901234567890123	Shipwreck	N5019.580	E00411.190

The problem is that your lat and lon aren't in the format of
Lxx_DIRDECIMAL.  I'm not really certain what format they ARE in, but
DIRDECIMAL have the hemisphere followed by the coordindate in decimal
degrees - and "5019" is definitely not a valid degree marker.

Yeah, we probably should detect this at this point and fuss about it...

I have a feeling that these numbers are actually that kind of weird
format used by NMEA and its mutants where it's degrees * 100 + minutes.
(Does anybody know what this format is called?)  If you can confirm
that first coordinate is 50 degrees and 19.580 minutes (i.e. 50.326333
degrees north, 4.186500 degrees east) we can probably add a new style
format specifier to handle those.

If it's something else, we'll need help to understand what it is.

RJL