Extra_POI_Editor - A tool to View/Edit/Convert POI/TourGuides (Part 1)

 

Well, I guess it's time I start an official thread about Extra_POI_Editor at POI Factory.

It does too many things for me to explain in a short post, so let's say it will allow you to view, edit and convert (new!) any GPX/CSV/OV2/JPG/KML/MGLN POI file to GPX/CSV/OV2/KML. Yes! Geocoded JPG can be imported too!

* There are preview windows specially designed to simulate a 4.3" widescreen GPS like a nuvi 760, but the program will work for other GPS; the display in the program will not match exactly the non-widescreen GPS.

* The tool will allow you to see the POIs on a map. You can drag also the marker on the map and update the new coordinate. This is very cool to fine tune the POI location.

* You can also preview linked images and sound files used in TourGuides.

* EPE can do batch geocoding and reverse geocoding. It has special filters to extract State, Postcode, Phone and more. You can create custom column formats for your CSV files input and output, ...

* You can open POI Loader, MapSource or GoogleEarth directly from EPE to see all POIs on the map.

This is it for now. It does more than that and will probably do more later. Please post your comments and suggestions here.

Turbo.

Oh yeah! For those who do not know, the download link is here:

http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor

If you find something missing, just post your requests. I will see what I can do.

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Alive and kicking...

gpsaccount wrote:

One more set of thanks. I think you've gone above and beyond already!

LOL! smile

One more thanks message

Awesome tool. Thanks!

We need to have a downloads tab on the Poi Factory website so others can find this tool faster.

Could I ask for one not-so-GPS wish list feature? When right-clicking a POI, offer an option to generate a URL that will open that same location in Google Maps (and possibly put it in the clipboard). (To paste into an email and correspond with others about the POI.)

What a Great Program! Plus a Question of course

Turboccc,
I've just started using your program and what a great tool! Thank you so much for all of your hard work. It has been interesting looking back through all of the posts to see how you have managed the evolution of the program.

I am working on building a file with sites from the Florida Birding Trail. I notice when I put an alert into the poi, either with Extra POI Editor, or when using the manual load in for POI Loader, the alert information shows on the "GO" screen of my Nuvi 750. Is there any way to restrain the alert info from showing on the screen?

This may have been discussed, but I am unable to find it if so.
Thanks,
Rod

esenge & Ranger Rod

esenge,

Maybe. I will put that in the list of things to do.

Ranger Rod,

I do not know.

I like the alert being on

I like the alert being on the first screen.Easy way to make sure you have it set.

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Alert Display

It seems I forgot to do the same in my emulator. I will add this as well to my ToDo list.

esenge,

BTW, I added the "Copy to Clipboard". I find this to be a nice feature. I am in the middle of other modifications so I cannot release yet. It just copies the POI name and address, like:

Adelaide River Showground CPAW, $
Dorat Rd
ADELAIDE RIVER NT 846
Phone: 08 89767041

About that URL for GoogleEarth, can you tell me how to do it in the KML file? If yes, I may be able to do it. So far, I have not found how to load a specific POI when loading a KML file. Thx.

URL for google maps

I was thinking that the URL could just be the latitude and longitutde.

Example: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.49908,-94.617777 will take you to the corner of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

So not really an entry in Google Earth... I was thinking about a URL that I could copy and paste into an email to verify a location or give somebody else directions from my POI files.

Welcome Back Turbo

Anything you add to an already great program is just topping. If you could add a transport button so all I need to do is get lat & long, hit transport and I could be there. Thanks

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MAC's get shaffted again

sad boohoo, i'm a MAC user

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but..... the MAC GUY

elements.design wrote:

sad boohoo, i'm a MAC user

says that MAC is a better choice.....

but then -- Tom Tom says it's better too

cool app. thanks for the

cool app. thanks for the work!

Help

I downloaded this program the other day. Was able to change a cvs file to a gpx file to use in mapsource. When I did this the addresses did not come to the gpx file. I went to use the Help file and received the message:
"The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which was used in previous versions of Windows and it is not supported in Windows Vista."

How do I get the addresses to show in gpx file and is there a Windows Vista help file.

Any help will be appreciated.

Do love what I can figure out.
Thanks

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

Help

mgarledge wrote:

How do I get the addresses to show in gpx file and is there a Windows Vista help file.
Thanks

I just started using the program last week so I am no expert. By default it seems to map the Name field properly, then it maps the description field to the address, except it strips off the last 14 characters of the description and maps them to the phone number field in the gpx file.

You can use Extra POI Editor's "Options\CSV Fields" command to map different columns in the CSV file to the fields in the GPX file.

But first you may have to parse the description column in the CSV file into separate columns for each field.

Can't help you with the Help file.

Not me. I like the address,

Not me. I like the address, Phone & whatever other info I'd like in large type. To each his own. For now, I'm not using alerts.

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mgarledge wrote:

I downloaded this program the other day. Was able to change a cvs file to a gpx file to use in mapsource. When I did this the addresses did not come to the gpx file.

What is the CSV file you are trying to convert? I have converted many .csv files to .gpx and had no issues with the address information.

mgarledge also wrote:

I went to use the Help file and received the message:
"The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which was used in previous versions of Windows and it is not supported in Windows Vista."

How do I get the addresses to show in gpx file and is there a Windows Vista help file.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607

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Quote:What is the CSV file

Quote:

What is the CSV file you are trying to convert? I have converted many .csv files to .gpx and had no issues with the address information.

I converted the McDonald's USA file.

After reading this post I may know what is wrong.
I am putting it in Mapsource.
I am looking at the Waypoint file in Mapsource.
I have not loaded it to my Nuvi yet.

Is there a place to see the address and phone number in Mapsource other than the comments?

I am looking at the comment part of the waypoint. Is this where the address and telephone number should be?

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Just looked at a poi that had the address in the comment that I loaded using poi-loader. The favorite does not show the address and phone number from the comments part of the waypoint.

How do I get the phone numbers and addresses to show in favorites after using poi loader made from a waypoint in Mapsource?
Thanks

Also, thanks for the Microsoft link.

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

Favorites

To show in Favorites, the address must be in the address field and the phone in the phone field. If both are in the comment field, it won't show up.

Note that I added (months ago) a phone number parser which should automatically extract the phone number from the address or description field when reading a CSV.

McDonald's USA

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Note that I added (months ago) a phone number parser which should automatically extract the phone number from the address or description field when reading a CSV.

I'm not sure what you mean by address fiels and phone number field. The Mcdonalds USA poi I downloaded from the POI-Factory has fields A,B,C and D field in.

#1 looks like this:

A -149.95038
B 61.13712
C McDonalds-Anchorage, AK
D 3828 W Dimond Blvd, Anchorage, AK, (907) 248-0597

I can not use your help files because I have Vista, and the Windows download fix has too many problems for me. I am sure I am doing something wrong.

Thanks.

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

Fields

The CSV format is very loosly defined. As you see, field D can contain anything, in your example, it contains street, city, state & phone.

In a GPX file, there are specific fields defined for street, city, state & phone. The parser will look for numbers formatted like a phone number anywhere in a CSV file and put that number in the specific phone number field of the GPX file.

I'm not sure how to deal with the address information. street, city, state.

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Quote:In a GPX file, there

Quote:

In a GPX file, there are specific fields defined for street, city, state & phone.

When I make a GPX file in Mapsource I can not find a place to put the address and phone number.

Do I need to make the original GPX file in the Extra poi editor? Or, is it just an editor as the name states?

All of my favorites that I make I have to go into favorites and put the address and phone number.
If I download a place I find on google maps the address and phone number are in the favorites.

I am so confused!!

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I just went to extra-poi-editor and clicked on new and saw how to make a poi. I guess I will have to make it here then put it in mapsource...but if i go to put it in my nuvi do I load it with poi loader like I do the ones I make in mapsource?

(still leaves me with the large Mcdonald's file and no addresses or phone numbers)

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Quit using mapsource

mgarledge wrote:
Quote:

In a GPX file, there are specific fields defined for street, city, state & phone.

When I make a GPX file in Mapsource I can not find a place to put the address and phone number.

Do I need to make the original GPX file in the Extra poi editor? Or, is it just an editor as the name states?

All of my favorites that I make I have to go into favorites and put the address and phone number.
If I download a place I find on google maps the address and phone number are in the favorites.

I am so confused!!

The easiest way is to quit using Mapsource.

Extra_POI_Editor will read the GPX file from the Garmin and allow you to edit the entries filling in missing data and correcting locations and coordinates.

Double clicking on a listing showing in the upper left pane of Extra_POI_Editor opens the edit screen showing all the fields and allowing the coordinates to be updated.

If you build a file from scratch by scraping data from a web site, you can click on options in EPE and tell it what columns have what data. You can define up to 24 fields in any order. When the program runs and builds the GPX or CSV file, the data is put into the correct position.

Once you build the GPX from the data and get all the missing pieces/parts into it, then you can load it into mapsource if you want, but it's not needed.

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Thanks

Quote:

The easiest way is to quit using Mapsource.

Extra_POI_Editor will read the GPX file from the Garmin and allow you to edit the entries filling in missing data and correcting locations and coordinates.

Double clicking on a listing showing in the upper left pane of Extra_POI_Editor opens the edit screen showing all the fields and allowing the coordinates to be updated.

If you build a file from scratch by scraping data from a web site, you can click on options in EPE and tell it what columns have what data. You can define up to 24 fields in any order. When the program runs and builds the GPX or CSV file, the data is put into the correct position.

Once you build the GPX from the data and get all the missing pieces/parts into it, then you can load it into mapsource if you want, but it's not needed.

Thanks so much!

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Using the McDonald's USA fileI just went in to EXTRA and double clicked and it did open the fields. The street address had the state and the city but the phone number was in the correct place. Now if I use POILoader will the address and phone number show in my favoriets?

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

what are you trying to do?

mgarledge wrote:

Using the McDonald's USA fileI just went in to EXTRA and double clicked and it did open the fields. The street address had the state and the city but the phone number was in the correct place. Now if I use POILoader will the address and phone number show in my favoriets?

I'm unclear as to what you are attempting to accomplish. Your Favorites has a limited amount of space for locations - somewhere between 500 and 1000. There are over 4000 Mickey D locations. You can't stuff 4 tons of fertilizer into a 5 lb box. Just load the file as a custom POI and be done with it. All you need to do is touch Where To, Extras, and Custom POI to get to the full file.

When the McDonald's file is selected, the closest 50 or so to your location show on the screen with a directional arrow and a straight line distance. Selecting one of the entries will then open the next screen showing all the data with a big green GO box to allow you to route to the location.

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Referencing McDonald's

Quote:

a_user: what are you trying to do?

Just using McDonald's as a reference because that is the only one I have converted to GPX.

All of my custom POIs are made from Mapsource and I loaded what I have for my vacation and that is all I want in Favorites for now.

My vacation files loaded to custom POI and to Favorites. I want to keep them in Favorites but their address and phone number is not there.

In the mean time I downloaded McDonalds but couldn't use it in Mapsource so I downloaded the Extra POI editor....I converted the McDonald's to GPX and put it in Mapsource and noticed the addresses and phone numbers were not in Mapsource...

This is what started me thinking about the favorites that I put on my Nuvi for my vacation so I looked at them and there was no phone or address. I went back to Mapsource and looked at where I was putting the phone and address and saw that it said coment and not address. I can't find a way to put the address and phone in them from Mapsource.....so...

What I want to do is creat POI's for vacation that will transfer to my Nuvi as POIs and Favorites and have them show the phone number and address in the Favorites.

Maybe not possible???
Thanks

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

URL

esenge wrote:

I was thinking that the URL could just be the latitude and longitutde.

Example: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.49908,-94.617777 will take you to the corner of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

So not really an entry in Google Earth... I was thinking about a URL that I could copy and paste into an email to verify a location or give somebody else directions from my POI files.

Done! I just need to release it.

See the example below:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&q=36.49908,-94.617777&ll=36....

By clicking the marker, you can get the driving locations.

mgarledge

Check your contact email

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a-user

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The only other piece of advice I will give you is don't play around with
Favorites too much - you can't organize them and other than home they
always sort by distance from your current location.

I numbered my folders in my POI file and the favorites come out in the order I am going to tour. I turn alerts off in custom POIs so not to get speed alerts with the numbers from the folders.

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Quote:

used excel to strip out items I needed from the D column into other
columns. From there I build a GPX and specified the data which was in
each of the new columns. I ended up with dialable phone numbers and was
then able to take a file and sort it by state, city, and zip (in that
order) to make the file easy to update.

So I make more columns, E, F, G etc. in Excel put what I want in them then convert them to GPX with Extra-POI-Editor....But, how do I specifi the data which was in each new column, and with which program, Excel, or Extra-POI-Editor?

Thanks for your help.

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

CSV columns Assignment

You specify CSV column assignment in Extra_POI_Editor: Options->CSV Fields menu.

Here goes v3.30

**Changes from v3.25 to v3.30**

* Now supports over 32767 POI loaded at the same time. Limit is 2147483648! wink It is a bit long to load or sort. Use with moderation. Not fully tested either.

* Extract phone number from TomTomOV2 file to Phone field.

* Updated the HELP file. Courtesy of rufree4t. Careful: you need to enable it on your computer. Double-click on it in Windows and unckeck the option "Always ask before opening this file". Otherwise, the help will not work. This should work for XP and Vista users.

* Added right-click "Copy POI to Clipboard" to copy selected POI name & address to clipboard.

* Added right-click "Copy POI as URL to Clipboard" to copy selected POI as an URL to the clipboard.

* Corrected a bug when selecting or scrolling symbols in the edit window. Not perfect, but will not crash the application anymore.

* I think I corrected an issue with Metric/Imperial units. Not quite sure what was the bug, but I tested and all looks good.

Note: Help file is a separate download. Details in help_chm.txt.

Thanks

Quote:

CSV columns Assignment
You specify CSV column assignment in Extra_POI_Editor: Options->CSV Fields menu.

Thanks, also thanks for the Vista Help files!!

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

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mgarledge wrote:

What I want to do is creat POI's for vacation that will transfer to my Nuvi as POIs and Favorites and have them show the phone number and address in the Favorites.

McDonalds USA Including Alaska and Hawaii
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/11154

If you use POI Loader with the above file, all the McDonalds will appear on your 750 under Extras with phone numbers and addresses.

Mapsource won't transfer phone numbers to your 750, or display the addresses or phone numbers on your PC. You can use Extra POI Editor for displaying addresses or phone numbers, and also for creating your POIs.

Also, TurboCCC has an updated version of the Help file that works on Vista:
http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor

Be sure to read the reelase notes on how to enable HELP.

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Thanks

WAASup, Thanks so very much! Will try this.

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Copy to Clipboard function

turboccc wrote:

Done! I just need to release it.

See the example below:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&q=36.49908,-94.617777&ll=36....

By clicking the marker, you can get the driving locations.

Thanks a bunch!

Mistaken

Quote:

a_user: The only other piece of advice I will give you is don't play around with
Favorites too much - you can't organize them and other than home they
always sort by distance from your current location.

Quote:

I numbered my folders in my POI file and the favorites come out in the order I am going to tour. I turn alerts off in custom POIs so not to get speed alerts with the numbers from the folders.

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I was Mistaken!!! (1st time in 63 years Ha, Ha)
The POI file is in order by the way I named the folder but the favorites are sorted by distance from my current location

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On some models you can

On some models you can assign categories for favorites just like you do for custom pois.I make a category example Vacation plan for when I plan a trip and put the selected places I want to visit in that category for favorites.Like you say it will show based on distance but will only show that for the category I selected.

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Assign categories for favorites

charlesd45 wrote:

On some models you can assign categories for favorites just like you do for custom pois.I make a category example Vacation plan for when I plan a trip and put the selected places I want to visit in that category for favorites.Like you say it will show based on distance but will only show that for the category I selected.

How do you assign and where do you put the category for favorites? That would be great as we are going to 3 countries and 8 cities.

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Favorites or Extra POI?

Favorites or Extra POI?

I think you refer to creating directories with different POIs in them, but this appears in the Extra POI section, not in the Favorites.

Favourite and POI Subcategories

mgarledge wrote:

How do you assign and where do you put the category for favorites? That would be great as we are going to 3 countries and 8 cities.

To assign a category for Favourites:
Where to -> Favourites -> All Favourites, select the favourite you want to change and tap Edit... tap the down arrow once then tap Change Categories. Check the categories you want the favourite in, or tap New to create a new category.

Regarding categories, note that a favourite can have more than one category assigned. Once a new category is created, I cannot find a way to rename it, or to delete it except to remove all the favourites from that category then it automatically is deleted by the Garmin.

To make subcategories for Custom POIs, make subdirectories of your POI directory on your PC. Any subdirectory of your main POI directory that has custom POIs in it when you run POI Loader will show as a sub category of POIs on the Garmin.

For some reason when I do that, it is very slow (between 5 and 10 seconds) to display POIs in a subcategory. Because of that, I don't use sub categories for my custom POIs.

Also when planning a trip I often use the GPS Simulator to set my location so POIs are easier and faster to find.

Category for favorites

turboccc wrote:

Favorites or Extra POI?

I think you refer to creating directories with different POIs in them, but this appears in the Extra POI section, not in the Favorites.

As BruceMck laid it out on the most newer models ending in 5 give you the option of making a category for favorites.You can select a category pre-assigned or touch new and make your own.Some examples I have on my favorites are car repairs,hotels,emergency walk in clinics etc and have the several favorites in that category.Not associated with extras for custom pois.

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mgarledge wrote:

How do you assign and where do you put the category for favorites? That would be great as we are going to 3 countries and 8 cities.

You cannot assign categories to favorites on your 750. The feature is available on newer 2x5/7x5 models such as the 260W and 765T.

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Great piece of software.

Great piece of software. Thanks!

Categories

WAASup wrote:
mgarledge wrote:

How do you assign and where do you put the category for favorites? That would be great as we are going to 3 countries and 8 cities.

You cannot assign categories to favorites on your 750. The feature is available on newer 2x5/7x5 models such as the 260W and 765T.

My bad. I have a 255W and should have mentioned that. I did not know that other models don't support categories for favourites.

Does anyone know why when I put a subcategory on my Custom POIs it takes over 5 seconds for a subcategory of POIs to display? I only made one subcategory named Restaurants, all my other custom POI CSV and GPX files are in the main directory that POI loader uses.

Is that normal behaviour or did I do something wrong?

Thanks.

Categories

charlesd45 wrote:

As BruceMck laid it out on the most newer models ending in 5 give you the option of making a category for favorites.You can select a category pre-assigned or touch new and make your own.Some examples I have on my favorites are car repairs,hotels,emergency walk in clinics etc and have the several favorites in that category.Not associated with extras for custom pois.

Cool new feature. If anybody could send me a Current.GPX file with categories, I would look at it. Probably something similar to what is used with MapSource...

I think I have found a new anomaly

I think I found a new anomaly in version 3.30.

I was attempting to take the speed camera file and add a default speed setting.

Line 1 of the file reads, after setting the indicated speed:
-82.6492 36.5471 Speed Camera @60 MPH .024zp TN Mount Carmel poi-factory Jul01 09 25
where the 25 is a default speed in column E.

Line 2, with another speed shows the speed variable set to 25 which should be correct.
-90.0757 29.9508 Redlight & Speed Camera @40 MPH .024zj LA New Orleans poi-factory Jul01 09 25

I set the CSV fields to Lon, Lat, POI Name, City, Speed.

Loading the file into EPE and double clicking to open the Edit window I see the speed is 37 MPH which would be 60 km/h converted to Imperial.

The program seems to be interpreting the speeds in Column C as metric values even when the preferences are set to Imperial.

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Speed

Hi a_user,

Interesting problem... See what I assumed...

When I read GPX files, I always assume units are in metric and I save them as metric afterward. The setting in the Preferences just tells me how to display them in EPE.

I do the same for CSV files. This is why you get imperial units treated as metric and converted back to imperial.

I have no problem changing this for CSV files, but I think I should continue to treat GPX files as metric. So GPX will be in metric, but CSV files units will be treated according to the settings in the preferences.

What do you think? Anybody has an opinion?

Please make sure you think of this correctly. Sooner or later, you will have to import CSV files in metric and/or imperial and you want them to be converted correctly.

Let me know and I'll do it.

Turbo

Favorites

BruceMck wrote:
mgarledge wrote:

How do you assign and where do you put the category for favorites? That would be great as we are going to 3 countries and 8 cities.

You cannot assign categories to favorites on your 750. The feature is available on newer 2x5/7x5 models such as the 260W and 765T.

I had hope for a few minutes. Thanks you save me from trying to do this with my 750.

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It is an interesting conundrum

turboccc wrote:

Hi a_user,

Interesting problem... See what I assumed...

When I read GPX files, I always assume units are in metric and I save them as metric afterward. The setting in the Preferences just tells me how to display them in EPE.

I do the same for CSV files. This is why you get imperial units treated as metric and converted back to imperial.

Every program and programmer starts with a set of assumptions. With you being in a country where the default units of measurement are metric and we being one of the laggards that hasn't converted to the international measurement standard, it makes sense you would start with the assumption the program was to meet your needs.

turboccc wrote:

I have no problem changing this for CSV files, but I think I should continue to treat GPX files as metric. So GPX will be in metric, but CSV files units will be treated according to the settings in the preferences.

What do you think? Anybody has an opinion?

The problem with the file I used to test this is in itself an anomaly. It uses both Imperial and metric units as it covers speed cameras in both the US and Canada. I honestly don't think there is an easy solution to the conundrum. Changing the default on one file vs another would leave the same problem with this particular file, one set of units would be handled correctly, the other incorrectly. It may be better just to document it as a program limitation and leave it.

turboccc wrote:

Please make sure you think of this correctly. Sooner or later, you will have to import CSV files in metric and/or imperial and you want them to be converted correctly.

Let me know and I'll do it.

Turbo

As I stated, it may be better to leave the program as is and document the assumption that all internal measurements are assumed to be metric values that will be output according to the value selected in user preferences.

The other side of the coin is to do no value conversion. Just output the value as read from the input string. If a person needs to convert from one system to another, there are hundreds of programs available that will handle the conversion. By not doing a conversion you can eliminate some code and complexity in the program. To me, this would be the better choice - not doing conversions and eliminating the preference. It would be almost a WYSIWYG in What You See (or in this case what is read) Is What You Get.

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Units Issue

What about letting the user choose in the preferences.

Units:

File Input: Metric/Imperial
File Output: Metric/Imperial
Editor: Metric/Imperial

This way, you can have different units in the output file than the input file and still display the units you want in the editor.

If the units change from one file to another, you will have to change the units between files. I would keep the factpry default to "Metric" because of GPX files, but you can do whatever you want after that.

Comments?

guess i'll have to check it

guess i'll have to check it out.

RE: Units

Again, I ask the question why attempt to do a unit conversion in your program? If I have a file created in one set of measurements, it is/was probably designed to be compatible with the units used in the area.

As the POI-Factory Speed Camera POI file covers both Canada and the US, it has both units of measurement. If I am traveling in one area or the other I can set my GPS to use either Imperial or Metric and the speeds would be correct. If the speed alert in the GPX file just read 30 wouldn't the GPS assume the speed was for the current unit settings?

The best way to verify this would be to have someone that crosses the border on a regular basis test it with their unit using a simple GPX file with a speed alert.

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