Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Garmin II+ waypoints

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

Clyde England wrote:

> didn't make it to the unit. It appears that none of the records that only
> had GCxxx as a Code made it to the GPSr. Everything that had GCxxxx DID
> make it fine. I also noticed that the GPSr had a message about "Invalid
> Waypoint" on the screen after the download."
> 
> Perhaps the Garmin II+ considers waypoints with less that 6 characters
> invalid?

Just as public closure on this, I found and fixed this.  Clyde verified
that the fix worked for the user that reported it.

Now, however, I'm looking at http://www.topografix.com/gps.xml and
wondering if I should beat the Garmin code with "cleaners" to restrict
the namespace of characters in all the waypoint and comments to more
closely comply with section 7.2 of the Garmin protocol spec.  That means
"upper case letters, numbers" for waypoint names and "upper case letter,
numbers, space, hyphen" for comments

RJL