Creating POIs for the Garmin - getting location information (A Lat/Long Tool)
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The process of creating POIs for the Garmin is pretty simple and has been discussed and explained in many posts on this website (http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1631).
Basically creating a POI involves:
- Creating a text file and naming it with an extension of CSV (the CSV stands for a Comma Separated Variable)
- Inserting each point of interest on a separate line
The second part is where one has to follow some rules:
- Each POI should be on a new line
- The POI has 3 major components: longitude,latitude,description
The most important information required for each POI are the latitude and longitude values. The slew of online mapping websites (like Google Maps) make it easy to get the lat,long values for a location. But they dont make it "EASY" (as one has to extract the lat,long from the URL/link for the map).
To fill this void, I created a very simple website which allows you to click on any location on a map and get the corresponding latitude, longitude for that location.
What's My Address: http://tinyurl.com/geocode
Here is what you can do:
- Search for a location by an address
- Get the latitude,longitude values by clicking on the map
- Get the longitude,latitude value by clicking on the map - this makes life so much easier for creating GARMIN POI files
- Get the address for any location by clicking on the map
Hope you find it useful.
http://tinyurl.com/geocode
http://www.aggregatedintelligence.com/googlemaps/reverseGeoC...
Creating POIs for the Garmin - getting location information (A L
Looks good but it put my home address four houses up the street from where it is suppose to be and you can move the cursor to get it closer. It would be help full to locate a place you weren't sure of. I have the same proablem if I use goggle earth or other maps.
johnm405 660 & MSS&T
Looks Good
I tried it on a few addresses around the US where I've lived before and it did a good job in giving the Location Lon-Lat and the Address.
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