I'm kinda lost
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Hi everyone!
I'm kinda lost here. I'm trying to update a POI file and for some reason, it does not work at all... The GPS unit is a Zumo 550... Here is what I'm trying to import:
-75.336794,45.304374,"Centre Sports Motorisés","186 Boul de L'Aéroport
Gatineau QC
(819)663-4444"
The POI gets in no problems but when I check it on my GPS, it is waaaaaaaay out of where it should be. So with the Zumo, I can punch in the grids that I want: I enter the exact same grids as listed above and I get bang on the the location where this dealership should be...
Is there something that I should know that I'm unaware of? This is occuring for at least 3 other files that I'm adding stuff to it. I basically use NOTEPAD to edit the file as Excel gave me some extra characters that wasn't supposed to be there...
Any help would be appreciated.
Tks.
Jeff
try this
186 Boulevard de L'Aéroport Gatineau QC when I run it thru GPS visualizer I get -75.561279,45.507375
Garmin 38 - Magellan Gold - Garmin Yellow eTrex - Nuvi 260 - Nuvi 2460LMT - Google Nexus 7 - Toyota Entune NAV
Different formats.
Here is what I'm trying to import:
-75.336794,45.304374,"Centre Sports Motorisés
The POI gets in no problems but when I check it on my GPS, it is waaaaaaaay out of where it should be.
Your Zümo is probably displaying coordinates in a different format to that expected by POILoader.
(h ddd° mm.mmm' instead of h ddd.ddddd°)
I'm not sure how you change it on the Zümo, but if it's like the Nüvi 310, it's under "Where to | Coordinates | Format"
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Aaaaaah! Horbyp! You got it
Aaaaaah!
Horbyp! You got it right! I was using the improper grid format! This explains a lot why most the POIs that I downloaded were not where I was expecting them.
I will reload them all with the appropriate format this time!
Thanks again!