Phone Numbers in POI
Tue, 03/13/2007 - 9:28pm
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17 years
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I made a POI file of 300 locations, It contains name, address, city, state, zip code, and phone number. When I upload it to my GPS, everything displays except the phone number.
What am I doing wrong?
post a line
Post a couple of lines here so we can take a look. Also, what did you use to create it, ie excel, notepad etc.
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Phone Numbers
If your GPS works similar to the SP 2720 all you have to do is scroll down the phone # is under the zip code Hope this helps
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POI Format
I made a POI file of 300 locations, It contains name, address, city, state, zip code, and phone number. When I upload it to my GPS, everything displays except the phone number.
What am I doing wrong?
If you put a comma before the phone number, without enclosing the whole field in quotes, another field will be created. POI Loader only recognizes 4 fields, dropping everything over 4. When testing my 'POI File Verifier' I've noticed several POI's written this way.
"Internet: As Yogi Berra would say, "Don't believe 90% of what you read, and verify the other half."
Only 4 fields allowed
Here are a few lines. I made it in notepad, then I used batchgeocode to get the coordinates.
22942 Los Alisos|Mission Viejo|CA|92691|Auto Zone|(949) 830-8181|33.629336|-117.664649
717 N El Camino Real|San Clemente|CA|92672|Auto Zone|(949) 369-5841|33.430369|-117.61822
744 W 19th St|Costa Mesa|CA|92627|Auto Zone|(949) 642-1342|33.643537|-117.929528
24361 Muirlands Blvd|Lake Forest|CA|92630|Auto Zone|(949) 455-1995|33.628997|-117.705537
3453a W Ramsey St|Banning|CA|92220|Auto Zone|(951) 849-7626|33.926259|-116.914662
But, looking at batchgeocode again, I see that you are only allowed 4 fields. So maybe I'll delete the zipcode and leave the phone number.
Thanks for your help! Jim
Concatenate the fields
But, looking at batchgeocode again, I see that you are only allowed 4 fields. So maybe I'll delete the zipcode and leave the phone number.
You don't need to remove the fields, just use Excel and concatenate (join) several of the fields into one so you end up with 3 or 4 fields.
Garmin StreetPilot c530, Mapsource
POI Structure
22942 Los Alisos|Mission Viejo|CA|92691|Auto Zone|(949) 830-8181|33.629336|-117.664649
717 N El Camino Real|San Clemente|CA|92672|Auto Zone|(949) 369-5841|33.430369|-117.61822
744 W 19th St|Costa Mesa|CA|92627|Auto Zone|(949) 642-1342|33.643537|-117.929528
24361 Muirlands Blvd|Lake Forest|CA|92630|Auto Zone|(949) 455-1995|33.628997|-117.705537
3453a W Ramsey St|Banning|CA|92220|Auto Zone|(951) 849-7626|33.926259|-116.914662
It appears you have a mirror image of the correct Garmin POI struction. i.e.
-116.914662,33.926259,"Auto Zone","Address, City, State, Zip, PhoneNumber"
(This is being displayed broken into two lines, put it all on one line)
You're correct in only 4 fields can be used; but you can put almost anything in one field if that field is enclosed in quotes (including commas, linebreaks, more quotes, etc). Since commas are the delimiter for another field, commas not enclosed in quotes will create another field.
You may want to try using 'POI File Verifier' to check your POI after you get it finished.
Hope this solves your problem.
RT
"Internet: As Yogi Berra would say, "Don't believe 90% of what you read, and verify the other half."