[Gpsbabel-misc] Can GPSBabel create TomTom .ov2 files with Phone number?

[Robert M. <Ro...@mo...>]

Hi,

Firstly, I am a newbie to GPSBabel, so apologies if I’m doing something wrong either here or with GPSBabel.

It is possible to use the phone keyword to include a telephone number in a TomTom .ov2 POI file, where there is a number in the phone field?

This is done by adding a Greater Than Symbol, i.e. ">" (without quotes), after the POI description in the name field followed by the phone number. (e.g. "My House>441234222444" for telephone number +44 1234 222444 ).

I am using Universal csv with field structure in first line (unicsv). I am using the keyword “phone” for the phone number but I can’t seem to get GPSBabel to including the phone number in the TomTom .ov2 file.

I’m using Mac GPSBabel 1.5.4.
I’m converting .csv (saved via TextEdit as Unicode UTF-8) to .ov2.
GPSBabel input file is set to “Universal csv with field structure in first line”

I have 4 columns in csv file: Longitude (column A); Latitude (column B); Name (column C); and Phone (column D)

I can concatenate the name column and the phone column (if it contains a number) with a separating Greater Than Symbol into a new column, in MS Excel. I then copy & paste special (value) into a final column and then delete the unnecessary columns to be ready to convert to a csv file and then pass through GPSBabel. However it would be nice if this could all be done in GPSBabel as it would remove a lot of steps and make things easier to explain. By the way the MS Excel concatenation formula that I use is:

=C1&IF(D1="","",">"&D1)

Information on how to create a TomTom .ov2 POI file with telephone number can be seen:
http://www.tomtom.com/lib/doc/TomTomTips/index.html?poi_third_party_tools.htm

Many thanks,
RobertM