How to convert Outlook/Yahoo Address Book to POI file?

Fri, 08/15/2008 - 4:04pm

bentbiker

16 years

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kingchurch wrote:

Would be nice to have a way to dump my address book into a POI/CSV file. Are there free tools to do such conversion ?

Thanks
Kc

Did you do a search on "outlook address book"?

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Fri, 08/15/2008 - 5:11pm

rjrsw

15 years

Export Your Outlook Contacts to a CSV File

kingchurch wrote:

Would be nice to have a way to dump my address book into a POI/CSV file. Are there free tools to do such conversion ?

Thanks
Kc

Export Your Outlook Contacts to a CSV File
To save your contacts from Outlook to a CSV file:

Select File | Import and Export... from the menu.
Make sure Export to a file is highlighted.
Click Next >.
Now make sure Comma Separated Values (Windows) is selected.
Click Next > again.
Highlight the Contacts folder.
Click Next >.
Use the Browse... button to specify a location and file name for the exported contacts. Something like "Outlook.csv" or "ol-contacts.csv" on your Desktop should work fine.
Click Next > (once more).
Now click Finish.

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Fri, 08/15/2008 - 8:33pm

Hornbyp

17 years

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As detailed above, getting your outlook information into a .csv file is not too hard. However, by default, you'll get 93 columns of information (and two that you *must* have - longitude/latitude - will be missing).

Though it's not free, GeePeeEx Editor attempts to sort the wheat from the chaff, and produce a usable .gpx file from that input. The longitude & latitude can be obtained using its built-in geocoding interface (one that won't make wild guesses, if it can't find the address...).

http://GeePeeEx.com/importingmulti-columncsvfiles

You could use GeePeeEx's 'Export as Favourites' mechanism - which is free. In this case, you'll only get a subset of the data though.

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Tue, 08/26/2008 - 7:07pm

kingchurch

15 years

Thank you all for the very

Thank you all for the very informative answers. I will give Outlook and GeePeeEx a try.

Kc

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Wed, 02/23/2011 - 6:53pm

oldtimeguitarguy

13 years

This might help

Here is a site that connects to your Gmail account and pulls all the contacts that have addresses and puts them into your Garmin.

http://www.contacts2garmin.com

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Wed, 02/23/2011 - 8:37pm

GadgetGuy2008

15 years

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oldtimeguitarguy wrote:

Here is a site that connects to your Gmail account and pulls all the contacts that have addresses and puts them into your Garmin.

http://www.contacts2garmin.com

I would be very wary of giving a complete stranger access to my personal information. Especially considering he has signed up on various gps forums to promote his site but used different user names on each site.

http://forums.gpsreview.net/viewtopic.php?t=21313

And according to whois the site was created/registered 10 days ago. So please be careful.