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Posted by Jim Beachy on April 26, 2008, 10:36 am


I've played around a good bit in the past couple weeks with custom POI's.
I've downlaoded a bunch of .gpx and .csv files and have loaded them
successfully to several GPS units. It's all good on the GPS unit, no
problems.

My question concerns .gpi files in MapSource. Downloaded .gpx files
translate perfectly into MapSource and, since .gpx is a recognized MapSource
format, I can open those custom POI files without problem. But when I use
POI Loader to convert a .csv file, the resultant file has .gpi format and
I'm having trouble figuring out how to read it in MapSource or how to load
those POI's into a MapSource file.

TIA (Hmmm.... could mean "thanks in advance" or "transient ischemic attack",
which just might be what I'm having here!)

--
Jim Beachy




Posted by Jack Bunce on April 26, 2008, 2:06 pm


Jim Beachy wrote:

> ...My question concerns .gpi files in MapSource. Downloaded .gpx files
> translate perfectly into MapSource and, since .gpx is a recognized
> MapSource
> format, I can open those custom POI files without problem. But when I use
> POI Loader to convert a .csv file, the resultant file has .gpi format and
> I'm having trouble figuring out how to read it in MapSource or how to load
> those POI's into a MapSource file....

GPSBabel may be your friend.

Posted by Jim Beachy on April 26, 2008, 4:24 pm


Yowsa! GPSBabel is indeed my friend! Thanks! Never had occasion to play
with GPSBabel before.
--
Jim Beachy


> Jim Beachy wrote:
>> ...My question concerns .gpi files in MapSource. Downloaded .gpx files
>> translate perfectly into MapSource and, since .gpx is a recognized
>> MapSource
>> format, I can open those custom POI files without problem. But when I
>> use
>> POI Loader to convert a .csv file, the resultant file has .gpi format and
>> I'm having trouble figuring out how to read it in MapSource or how to
>> load
>> those POI's into a MapSource file....
> GPSBabel may be your friend.