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

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

Thanx for the good explanation.

Looking at tomtom.cc, I don't see any special handling for phone number,
which is a field type we really don't think too much about in GPSBabel. So
if there's any special handling required in the .ov2 file for it, we don't
do that. If the device itself parses phone numbers after the >, it should
be fine, but we dont' know of a special place in the ov2 for it.

If you have addition information about the ov2 format on how to store or
retrieve phone data from that format, we'd welcome changes to ov2 to handle
it.



On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Robert Morton <Ro...@mo...> wrote:

> 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
>
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