Is there a possibility of just consolidated files
Thu, 11/13/2008 - 2:04pm
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15 years
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Can we have consolidated files for like - all places of amusement, or all restaurants etc.
It does get tedious to search and upload individual files. Best solution for someone like me would be to upload that ONE BIG file and be done with.
Is there any implication to my suggestion apart from the size. I got a 8 GB SDHC on my Garmin 760 so I dont think space is an issue.
Advise please
Regards
Isu
You already have one big file...
on your GPS. It came preloaded. Seems silly to have another big file to duplicate it. That's my 2 cents.
GC
Nuvi 350, GPS Map 76CX
C580 User
On my C580, the more custom POIs loaded, the slower POI selection becomes. Thus, I limit the amount of POI loaded. Maybe newer units don't have this issue.
Tim
With a single file,
You only get to see the first 50 POIs at any given time. It is better to have multiple files and you choose the one(s) you are interested in.
I agree with bak276
The advantage of custom POIs is that we can break them down to looking for the specific subjects. As stated, you see the closest 50 and that would be impractical if you had a large file of POIs.
Also, it would be difficult to keep it up to date as some new files are segments of others (by state vs all) so which ones would be loaded into the "aggregated file"?
If an aggregated file is desired, you can easily combine several downloaded files (based on your own grouping) into one large file with Excel (for CSV files).
Garmin StreetPilot c530, Mapsource
huh?
It does get tedious to search and upload individual files. Best solution for someone like me would be to upload that ONE BIG file and be done with.
What do you mean upload individual files? To the GPS? When you find new POI files you want to use, don't you just add them to your master POI folder and then use POI loader to load them all into your GPS in one step?
PT
Garmin nüvi 200 (my first GPS), 780, & 3700 Series. And a Mac user.
I agree
It does get tedious to search and upload individual files. Best solution for someone like me would be to upload that ONE BIG file and be done with.
What do you mean upload individual files? To the GPS? When you find new POI files you want to use, don't you just add them to your master POI folder and then use POI loader to load them all into your GPS in one step?
PT
I would have to agree with guttermouth I to have one master file and it works for me...
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I also agree
If you want a large single file for instance Fast Food Places simply download .csv files from here, start a new Excel page and use copy to take each file across to the new one.
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Do not forget to leave this one out of the new file.
If you want a large single file for instance Fast Food Places simply download .csv files from here, start a new Excel page and use copy to take each file across to the new one.
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Notepad
If you want a large single file for instance Fast Food Places simply download .csv files from here, start a new Excel page and use copy to take each file across to the new one.
Or use Notepad open each file highlight everything hit CTL-C open the big file you are creating hit CTL-P. Also you can delete ones that you know you don't want.
My suggestion would be to
My suggestion would be to just concatenate all the smaller files together if you really want a single large one. Maintenance on a large one (from the site's standpoint) would be a nightmare.
In DOS, you can concatenate with something like:
copy file1 + file2 + file3 new
to concatenate files 1,2,3 into the new file.
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Or use Notepad open each file highlight everything hit CTL-C open the big file you are creating hit CTL-P. Also you can delete ones that you know you don't want.
You probably ment CTL-V to paste, CTL-P is to Print