Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] HELP! Newbie needs to transfer DeLorme SA 2007 Waypoints from Palm OS to Garmin
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From: SWLinPHX <swl...@co...> - 2007-06-17 23:14:07
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On Jun 17, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Robert Lipe wrote: > >> When you open it with your favorite text program on your PC do you >> ALSO see the waypoint names I assigned buried in the file? > > No PC involved or required. On your map, you can 'hexdump -C > whatever.pdb' > and see the names are part of the data stored in these binary files. Okay, that's where you lost me. Remember what I said in my first post about not being UNIX or Terminal friendly? Beyond my scope, LOL! > >> So how do you delete custom POI's then??? I had made a mistake and >> got some I was testing on my nuvi and could not delete them FROM the >> nuvi, so I had to connect it to my Mac and manually trash the POI >> unix file from the nuvi drive. No matter how many "custom POI's" you >> have, it appears as always one file right? So you can only delete > > There are better support channels for Nuvi, but you have the right > idea; > you either remove or replace the single file that contains them. What "support channels" are you referring to ...on Garmin's site? I need to call them tomorrow because one thing that aggravates the HECK out of me is that every single time I turn my nuvi back on I have to re-enter my LOCALE info and VOICE preference all over and go thru about 6 screens to get back to normal! What's more, you can't edit the DST preference this way; you have to then go back into the system and choose LOCALE again to turn it back "off" from "auto" (we don't observe it in AZ) every time you turn it back on. This can't be right. Doesn't the nuvi battery retain these settings as it retains all other info??? > Favorites (waypoints) are much better suited to classes of data you > may > want to flip in and out of your units. I guess I was looking at it wrong. "Custom POI's" are really custom sets that go together, like all Wal-Marts or all movie theaters or all Phoenix shopping malls, etc.; like the tour guides I guess. POI Loader is what takes them from their .csv formats and converts all into one file, or adds it to the one POI file that is already there, increasing its size each time. "Favorites" are more like what I was used to with DeLorme waypoints on my Palm. If I DO ever figure out how to import my waypoints however, they will have to be added to the POI file right, not to Favorites? > >> have DeLorme Street Atlas desktop for Windows that will take it from >> a DeLorme .pdb file and convert it to a file that GPSBabel can >> convert. UGH, this is aggravating, but thanks for your diligence! > > That is probably the easiest approach. A better approach would > involve > someone reverse engineering the format and implementing a module in > GPSBabel > to read it. And what and when is the likelihood of THAT ever happening? LOL ...anyone with the skill, diligence and inclination up for the challenge? So then, are all those DeLorme formats in GPSBabel only for the desktop PC-generated version (not backed up from a handheld after the fact)? |