Can "Favorites" be converted to POIs?

I use a JavaScript POI Converter utility to convert the favorites (Current.gpx) to a csv file, and then integrate the csv entries with my POI files using notepad.

See Example 4 in this site:

http://sites.google.com/site/lschwabe/

Give it a shot and see if you like it.

Cheers,

Checked out the site, and it sounds like exactly what I need.

Thanks!

Smoky5757

Garmin has already done it for you. A copy of your favorites is stored in current.gpx -- that is already a POI file. Just copy it to your computer, name it Hydrant.gpx and load it as a POI. As long as you don't have over 500 hydrants, you can just keep adding and replacing the Hydrant.gpx file whenever you add.

Aha,thanks! One question -- when you say "load it as a POI," do you mean using something like Garmin's POI-loader, or just copying back onto the 750 in a folder?

Would seem I would need to delete the non-hydrant favorites as well, wouldn't I, to keep my tracklog points and "home" and all that from appearing as POIs? Especially if I associate a fire hydrant icon with that file..?

He would mean to load with POI Loader, as POI Loader accepts both, csv or gpx, type files.

If you just copy the gpx file into the 750, then it will be re-incorporated into the Favorites (current.gpx), which is where you had them in the first place, so assuming that you are trying to organize them into your own custom POIs, then you have to use "POI Loader", regardless of file type you are loading.

One down side I see on the renaming current.gpx file method, is that if you do that on various occasions, you end up with many POI files for them, rather than having them integrated into a single one, but it wouldn't be a big deal anyway, just a matter of preferences.

You are right.

A variation to that method would be to open the current.gpx file with notepad (or equivalent) and then "copy" the new hydrant entries and "paste" them to you Hydrant.gpx file, very straight forward, but also very easy to mess up the gpx file, and a bit harder to visualize due to all the xml tags. I myself find dealing with csv files more convenient and easier to visualize.

If you go the gpx route, you might want to use a nice xml editor, that will help overcome the ease of use.

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Yes, I am finding that out. I tried deleting just the non-hydrant favorites, and the tracklog points, and so far am unsuccessful -- the Garmin POI loader doesn't recognize it as a valid .gpx file. If I feed the unedited .gpx file to the loader, it works just fine, so there is something I am doing while editing that messes it up. Perhaps an XML editor is the way to go, or I'll experiment with your poi converter.

Thanks again for all your help.

If you want to use the unit for personal favorites as well, take a look at GeePeeEx Editor. You can uncheck your personal favorites and then save under Hydrants.gpx, overwriting the previous version. Then re-load with POI Loader.

Thanks everyone for the help. Since I only had a few hydrants to work with, I copied the lat/lons out of the .gpx file, made up my own .csv file in the right format, downloaded a fire hydrant symbol from this site, ran both files through the Garmin POI Loader, and presto! I have little red hydrants populating my map now. Just what I wanted. I did run into one little glitch, but I will start a separate thread on it -- has more to do with displaying POIs than creating them.

As I plot more hydrants and practice a little more, I'll try out the tools you folks suggested.

Thank you all very much.