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Garmin Coordinates vs POI

 
Thu, 01/14/2010 - 1:03am

Hi,
I have a Garmin Nuvi 350. When I travel and find a new POI I enter it in my GPS. Nothing fancy, since I am driving. When I have the time, I would want to transcribe these "hits" into my Favorite POI since their are not waypoints but alarms. My problem is this: the customary POI that I download are in the five place decimal degree format while the ones saved in my Nuvi are in degrees and three place decimal minutes. Converting each is somewhat tedious. Can the different format be pasted directly into the .csv file?
Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Nick

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Thu, 01/14/2010 - 1:15am

You can download Extra Poi

You can download Extra Poi Editor at http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor .With gps connected to computer. Select under file Open Garmin Favorites then save the file as a Garmin csv.Pull out the ones you want to make custom pois for.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.
Thu, 01/14/2010 - 1:26am

Coordinate format change

Have you tried this? Go to
Where to?>Coordinates>Format>Select third option (h ddd.ddddd)>Ok

Your coordinates should now show in 5 decimal place format.

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Nuvi 350
Thu, 01/14/2010 - 8:39am

EPE or GeePeeEx Editor

I do something similar and mark points on the fly, with the intention of later incorporating it into a POI file or even reporting a camera location.

EPE or GeePeeEx Editor will let you load those saved Favorites and then add descriptive text, etc. From there you can add those points to a POI file or re-save the updated waypoint back to your Favorites.

Thu, 01/14/2010 - 11:47am

Thanks

Thanks to all for these very useful pointers. ;^)