gpx-poi.com = Web based gpx file generator

Thanks. I will have to give it a try.

Could you do it the other way around. I select a location on the map and you put the log/lat? Then we can add the rest to generate the gpx?

Could we have an option to change the map view with the satellite view.

Thanks

I added the features you suggested.

I know what you are going to ask for next. The ability to toggle between a small and a large map, so I am already working on that

Hi gpx-poi,

Thank you for creating the GPX File Generator. It works great on my Nüvi 670.

I have one question:

Scenario #1
In the "Waypoint" section, if I don't make any entries in the Elevation, Symbol, Type, Comment or Description fields, the resulting .gpx file generates "speed" and "distance" lines in the file display and obscures my address below the dialable phone display.

Scenario #2
In the "Waypoint" section, If I add a "blank space" in the Elevation, Symbol, Type, Comment and Description fields, the resulting file displays correctly (without the extra "speed" and "distance" lines, in the display.

Why is the file adding "speed" and "distance" information to the file in scenario #1 and not adding "Speed" and "distance" information to the file, in scenario #2.

Anyway, keep up the good work, you've got a winner here!!!

Regards.

Tailspin

Nüvi 670
Mac User

Aha, I saw something similar, on the nuvi 260, if I did not include the same fields you mention.

This must be an artifact of the POI Loader application and/or nuvi navigator. Some of the fields are required for the navigator to store the address correctly. The file that is generated by my web service does not create 'speed' and 'distance' information.

I have not yet purchased a nuvi navigator, I just test it in the store.

If you would be willing to test it out and identify exactly which of the fields are required for the address to show up properly, I can make a note of that on the web site.

In the mean time, I will see if I can come up with some addresses that will clarify this.

I am glad the web service is useful to you.

Hi gpx-poi,

FYI, I uploaded the .gpx file I created, using the "Express" method. I suppose I could have loaded them "manually" and disabled the distance and speed lines of text, in the poi display.

I'm going to run some tests later, within the waypoint section, by adding a blank space to 1, then 2, then 3 etc. until all of the text fields have a blank space in them. BTW, when adding a blank space in the text field, it generates the XML code for that category, into the .gpx file. Without the blank space, "no XML code" for that category, is written into the file.

Gotta go get a haircut, but i'll work on it later and post my findings...

Regards.

Tailspin

Nüvi 670
Mac User

P.S. I'd happy to help...

P.S. Now if we could only have an "Add" button, that would keep adding to first file we create, allowing us to have multiple points-of-interest, within the same file.

Hi gpx-poi,

In testing, I started with no blank spaces, in any of the 5 text fields.

Then I added one blank space in Elevation, to the next file.

Then I added blank spaces to Elevation and Symbol to the next file.

Then I added blank spaces to Elevation, Symbol and Type to the next file.

Then I added blank spaces to Elevation, Symbol, Type and Comment to the next file.

The last file had blank spaces in all the text fields (Elevation, Symbol, Type, Comment and Description).

The initial results were:
The first four .gpx files (the ones with blank spaces in 0 text fields, 1 text field (Elevation), 2 text fields (Elevation and Symbol), and 3 text fields with blank spaces, (Elevation, Symbol and Type) only displayed the "name" of the POI.

The next two, 4 fields with a blank space (Elevation, Symbol, Type and Description) & 5 fields with a blank space (Elevation, Symbol Type and Description and Comment), displayed correctly (with dialable phone numbers).

Then I created a file with just the "Symbol and Description" fields with blank spaces and that file also displayed correctly (with dialable phone numbers).

Then I created a file with blank spaces in the "last four" text fields, (Symbol, Type, Comment and Description) and "omitting the Elevation text box" and that file also displayed correctly (with dialable phone numbers).

Then I created a file with blank spaces in only the "Comment and Description" text fields and that file displayed correctly (with dialable phone numbers).

And finally, I created a file with just the "Elevation and Description" fields, each with a blank space and that file displayed correctly, however, in this instance, the phone number wasn't dialable.

Suggestion:
If the gpx-poi file generator would write the XML code for the Elevation, Symbol, Type, Comment and Description fields into the file (whether there were text entries or just blank, that would solve the problem.

As it is now, unless you make some kind of a text entry in those fields, the XML code (for those fields) doesn't get written into the .gpx file. When I added a blank space to the text field(s), the XML code was written into the generated .gpx file.

HTH (hope that helps)

Regards.

Tailspin

Nüvi 670
Mac User

tailspin,

Thanks for the data points.

Sorry it took so long to get back with you. I got the flue and pretty much slept through last weekend.

Also, after I added the features asked for earlier in this thread, it became quite clear that the standard server side processing of the form, which updates the entire page content, did not play well together with the Ajax methodology used to access the google maps server. To make this a cleaner implementation I rewrote the site such that form processing and generating the gpx file also is done via Ajax. This took a few days since I had never set up a web site to support Ajax.

I am a little unsure how to proceed. I would prefer not to add garmin specific workarounds to my site unless I really have to.

I will look into the POI Loader application and see whether there may be settings that can be changed which may resolve this issue.

Thanks for the help.

You guys are way ahead of me. I captured the coordinates of a place which deserves a POI, with my Nuvi-660 while I was there, and all I want to do is turn these already known coordinates into a POI to share with the many-of-you out there, by simply adding the name of this place & brief description to these known coordinates. Also, I understand that putting the correct coordinate before the other one is necessary (Longitude -vs- Latitude). So... how is any of this done, and how do I tell which one of my captured coordinates is which, and then which one gets written into the POI first??

Is any of this style of POI writing worth programming into your POI-writing website?

Also... thank you a ton for doing this POI-writing website for the greater cause!!

~Jim~

1) I like the workflow of using the google map to create POIs by "pin-point" FIRST. In fact, this is likely the only way to create libraries of POIs instead of actually visting each spot.

2) How do I create multiple POIs in same file? It looks like this software creates individual GPX files frome ach single POI entry?

3) Toggling the map view will be a great feature; having a "pre-zoomed" "home" for my own area will be even better.