Garmin 560LMT and TourGuide?

With no antidote!

Have fun and be safe!

And I didn't get killed!

But my alert sounded at 25 miles instead of 37 or 38. Hmm...

Use your text editor and read the proximity number in the .gpx file again.

Not there -- here's the entire entry for the DZ at Belen -- minus the "<" and ">" and the formatting

wpt lat="34.6445333" lon="-106.8283000"
time2010-02-23T22:14:08Z/time
nameSkydive New Mexico/name
symParachute Area/sym
extensions
gpxx:WaypointExtension
gpxx:DisplayModeSymbolAndName/gpxx:DisplayMode
gpxx:Address
gpxx:StreetAddress240 #3 Airport Rd./gpxx:StreetAddress
gpxx:CityBelen/gpxx:City
gpxx:StateNM/gpxx:State
gpxx:PostalCode87002/gpxx:PostalCode
/gpxx:Address
gpxx:PhoneNumber505-897-3256/gpxx:PhoneNumber
/gpxx:WaypointExtension
/extensions
/wpt

See my post above from Fri, 07/08/2011 - 9:27pm about saving the TourGuide distance in the GPX file for all POIs.

Then you can run POILoader in Express mode.

Curious - have you tracked a dive with your GPS to later go back and see your desent rate?

No, probably won't jump with a GPS for a while! With only two jumps in the past 15 years, I don't have a lot of time to think about anything other than not screwing up!

However, take a look at http://www.paragear.com/templates/base_template.asp?group=52...

I just hope it remembers to tell you to pull the cord!

If you need something to tell you to deploy your parachute, you aren't awake!

Did you try putting the distance in the GPX file using EPE yet?

I was out on teh road driving the 18-wheeler for the past few days. I'll consider putting the distance int eh .gpx but it's working so well now that I hate to fool with it.

If its not in the GPX file you must of set it in POILoader manual mode??

I've never set a distance that big with POILoader.

BTW, if its working now there's no real need to change things.

That's right -- I've been using the POI loader in manual mode all this time.

If you are using GPX files for your POI, then you can set the proximity for each location within the file itself allowing POILoader to be run in AUTO mode.

Assuming you have a PC, use Turbo's Extra_POI_Editor (EPE). (Instructions on where to find EPE and how to install it are in many different threads, but the file itself is at http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor.)

You need to set some preferences, so once the file is installed, go to Options->Preferences (CTL-P) and select the following:

Units: Select either Imperial/US (Feet) or Metric (Meters)
CSV file read and write should be left to Metric
GPX Output:
Encoding: UTF-8 (UTF-8 has become the dominant character encoding for the World-Wide Web and is also increasingly being used as the default character encoding in operating systems, programming languages, APIs, and software applications.)
Line Break: This is the default character your unit needs to start a new line on the display. The character varies from unit-to-unit often within the same brand.
Time Stamps: Your preference, mine are disabled.

CSV Output:
Line Break: Should match what you set for the GPX files.
Remove Column Header: put a check in the box

Filter:
Set the options you think you will need. I have a check next to Remove duplicate comment fields, and the 2 enable extraction fields. I have the "Remove empty comment field" filter unchecked, but that's personal preference.

Internet/Maps:
Again, set what you think you will need.

Those are the key options you need.

Now, to set a proximity in a GPX file follow these steps:

Open the file using EPE.
Press CTL-R to open the Replace Field feature
Press the letter 'P' 5 times and the work Proximity will show as the Field Name
Key in the value on the box (Feet for Imperial/US, meters for Metric - The value is what you stated you were using as Units.

Click on OK.

The program will now put the metric equivalent of your value into the proper field in the GPX file for all locations. This file can now be loaded by POILoader in AUTO.

Like several others here at POI-Factory using proximity alerts we load mostly GPX files that have a proximity within the file so we can use the auto mode.

Well, that's just the problem -- some of my files are .gpx, and some are .csv. I guess I can convert them, lemmee think of that for a bit.

Only convert the files you want a distance alert unless you want to use Bluetooth to dial any phone numbers that may be in the file.

I'll have to look at that, but later -- I'm about to leave for Chino, Ca.

I am a new owner of a 3790T and forgive me if this is not the area to ask but are tourguide files available for my unit? I assume they would have to be in wav format rather than MP3. Also I have an 8 gig sdhc I am using for the data and wonder what the difference in file size between the 2. Last I would ask where one could get some tourguides free. Thanks for any assistance.

A Garmin FAQ says

What are TourGuide POIs, and which devices support TourGuide POIs?

Garmin PNDs (Personal Navigation Devices) that include an MP3 player will support the use of these files.

Now, we often speak of using "TourGuide" files as a way to get a "radius" (in a circle) alerts rather than the normal "along the route" alerts.

Which are you interested in?

I would like to be driving down the road and have it tell me about the sites along the way like historical facts or what is nearby that would make it worthwhile to stop and see or things like that.

Would be great, but let's think about this a moment. I live in an area that has a great number of Civil War history. If there existed a "file" of monuments and roadside plaques, etc., I would be unable to hear any "alert" completely before the next "alert" would begin. That would drive me wild, I think and I would quickly turn off the "alerts" in the interest of getting the directions for the "route" I was on.

Now, depending on your interests, you might want to find POI files that meet that interest - let's just say famous meteorite craters (61 of them) and offbeat tourist attractions (6252 of them) (described thusly" This file is a list for all the states for Offbeat Tourist Attractions. These attractions are fun, oddball, and strange.). On any road trip that would take you close to some of these, you might decide (before you leave on the road trip) to load these two POI files as TourGuide files with a "radius" proximity alert of 50,000 feet (I think you can go up to 200,000 feet) either (1) using "manual" in POILoader, or (2) converting the .csv files into .gpx files into which you set the proximaty distance for every entry (and then use "express" mode in POILoader).

Then - after setting proximity alerts to "on" in your GPS - you would get an alert that some crater or offbeat attraction was within easy driving range and could make the decision to visit or not.

Am I mistaken, or can't I do the same thing in MapSource?

I've never seen any way to set a proximity for POI using Mapsource, but then I'm no expert on it either. I personally find Mapsource to be of limited use. But again, it's my opinion.

You can open a .gps in MapSource. All the points show up as waypoints. Select them all, the select "properties", and there is a proximity value available. I'm not 100% sure it does what we want here, as I've not tried it. Yet.

Odd thing, I have numerous .gps files now -- just this morning I converted all the .csv files that I wanted alerts on to .gpx files. They seem to interact with each other, so I have to make multiple .poi files for the GPSr.

Alphabet soup! Ha!

Yes, but are they written back to the unit? There's a lot of things Mapsource will display but not transfer.

I've opened a .gpx in MapSource, set a proximity, and saved the .gpx. Here's a "before & after" example -- with all the <'s and >'s removed --

wpt lat="42.50848400" lon="-83.28523800"
time2008-11-10T17:42:37Z/time
nameCKWW 580/name
cmtBingham Farms, MI

M - F 10p-11p/cmt
descBingham Farms, MI

M - F 10p-11p/desc
symTall Tower/sym
extensions
label xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/gpx_overlay/0/3"
label_textCKWW 580/label_text
/label
/extensions
/wpt
_________________________________________

wpt lat="42.508483976125717" lon="-83.285238007083535"
time2011-07-22T16:20:36Z/time
nameCKWW 580/name
cmtBingham Farms, MI

M - F 10p-11p/cmt
descBingham Farms, MI

M - F 10p-11p/desc
symTall Tower/sym
extensions
gpxx:WaypointExtension xmlns:gpxx="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensions/v3"
gpxx:Proximity32186.88/gpxx:Proximity
gpxx:DisplayModeSymbolAndName/gpxx:DisplayMode
/gpxx:WaypointExtension
/extensions
/wpt

Thank you for showing Mapsource will write proximities. It's something to file away.

I do not have Mapsource, so I need some instruction.

As best I understand, Mapsource will write to the GPS and I assume that the output will be in the x:\Garmin\GPX folder.

So this would act like a favorite, correct?

It seems what this would do would be to proximity alert you to whatever you had transferred from Mapsource to the GPS but is not a way toward building POI files to go into Custom POIs using POILoader.

I'm talking about modifying .gpx files with MapSource, and then loading them with the POI Loader.

Does Mapsource have a "replace all" feature?

for checking

Well, after several months of the Skydiving Drop Zones playing nice with TourGuide, I decided to try the same thing with Geocaches. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get this one going, either! I must be snake-bit...

Here's the top of my .gpx file, down through the first waypoint (but <'s were replaced by .'s). Anybody have ideas why this isn't working?

Thanks,
Earl

.?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
.gpx xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" xmlns:gpxx="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensions/v3" creator="Extra_POI_Editor V4.70" version="1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensions/v3 http://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensions/v3/GpxExtensionsv3.xsd">
.metadata>.!--
Extra_POI_Editor can only be used for personnal usage and not for any commercial purposes without a written permission of the author, aka TurboCCC. I can be reached at turboccc@hotmail.com.
-->.link href="http://turboccc.wikispaces.com">./link>
./metadata>

.wpt lat="34.424933" lon="-103.226233">
.name>GoingGre Tr/Sm 2/2 GC32VJP./name>
.cmt> ./cmt>
.extensions>
.gpxx:WaypointExtension>
.gpxx:Proximity>4828./gpxx:Proximity>
.gpxx:Address>
.gpxx:StreetAddress>FFFF Pl:8/23/2011 Lf:8/31/2011 foamflyer./gpxx:StreetAddress>
./gpxx:Address>
./gpxx:WaypointExtension>
./extensions>
./wpt>

to know what your problem is.

The other point is why are you playing with a GPX for a simple geocache file?

I also would like to know what the problem is.

What I would suggest is that you work with one and only one geocache that you make up near your home so you can use simulation.

I would suggest that you find the coordinates of some place about two miles from your home.
(1) Do a where to some intersection and then save that.
(2) Turn on Simulation
(3) Do a Where To > Recently Found and choose that intersection
(4) Press the Map button at the bottom of the screen
(5) Press the Set Loc. button
(6) Back out to the Where To screen and press the Map Button. You should see the map with your vehicle at that intersection.
(7) Press and hold your vehicle. When you release the press, your should see "My Location"
(8) Make a note of the coordinates and remember that the "lon" will be negative in your file

Taking the file you posted above, throw away all other POIs but the one your posted.

Replace the coordinates with those found above.

Save the file with a new name in a new folder and then use POILoader to load it to your GPS.

Are you using TourGuide in the file name???

Does TourGuide have capital "T" and capital "G"?

Please let us know what happens.

He started another topic. He did not state his problem in that one either, but he found his problem.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/34345