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Geocoder Question

 
Sun, 02/17/2008 - 3:23pm

I visited this site :

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

and liked the way you can input multiple addresses to get gps co-ordinates.

The problem is, Garmin POIs needs longitude in first column and latitude in second column of POI.

This gpsvisualizer.com site reverses the info and puts the longitude in the second column of its results.

For those familiar with this site, is there an option to select on that site to reverse the output order (I looked and couldn't find anything)

Or, is there another geocoder site that gives results with longitude first and latitude second?

thanks

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Sun, 02/17/2008 - 4:19pm

I didn't see anything

I didn't see anything either, however, when you save it, just open it and reverse the columns in excel. Probably not the answer that you were looking for, but it is a work around

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Sun, 02/17/2008 - 4:21pm

.

That's the way to do it without the need for other software.

Normally coordinates are expressed with latitude first and longitude second. That's why GPS Visualizer produces them that way. But for whatever reason, Garmin's POI Loader needs them reversed from that.

Thankfully, it's easy enough to move the columns in Excel.

Sun, 02/17/2008 - 4:49pm

POI Verifier

cdnrver wrote:

For those familiar with this site, is there an option to select on that site to reverse the output order (I looked and couldn't find anything)

If you have POI Verifier ( http://PoiVerifier.com ), it has an option to swap the longitude and latitude. Just check the option and run POI Verifier as normal. It will produce a [YourFileName]_S.csv file with the coordinates swapped.

Be aware that when using http://gpsvisualizer.com you may not get the results you desire. When running the batch mode with the default settings, it will produce the coordinates of the address if it can find it; if not, then the street; and if it can't find the street, then the city; etc. When geocoding one address it will tell you the precision; when doing batch geocoding, it's unknown.

RT

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