Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Waypoints

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

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Piotr Kolodziejski
<dor...@br...>wrote:

>  Hi!
>
> I transferred my Garmin waypoints to TomTom POI with gpsbabel 1.3.5 under
> Windows XP Pro. The command was: gpsbabel.exe -p "" -w -i gdb -f
> "D:\Dokument (D)\GarminTracks\WayPoSve.gdb" -o tomtom -F
> "D:\TomTomHome\Diverse\PrivatePoints.ov2"
>
> Majority of POI get names from comments in Garmin Way Points. It can be the
> date or the telephone number.
>
> How do I avoid this?
>

If we don't see a name but have comments, we'll use those in the TomTom
writer.

If you want more careful control of the names, it's probably best to pull
the GDB into Mapsource and "fix" them there.