gpsbabel giving awkwardness

I am using GPSBabel Version 1.4.4 on linux

When you do "Where To?" what is under the "searching near" in the upper right hand corner of your 2597?

If this is a .csv file you created yourself, you might have the latitude and longitude swapped.

I am set to my current location where I am residing currently anything i create and try to search on is like over 4,000 miles away are the things that recently show up.

I have the location in the upper right hand corner set to my current location so this is odd. It does this on all the gpi i have created using gpsbabel off csv and I have tried to use the -i xcsv also and point to a csv.style

The csv files are from this site and work fine with the garmin gps poi loader. I am a linux advocate and wanted to c0de and wrap batch processing via python around gpsbael for csv + bmp + other things but have to get over the hurdle to why my data is fubar.

also when i try to select one of the places showing up in the list for the given category that is thousands of miles away it says it cannot calculate the route

I don't have a clue as to why your POIs are so far off. I assume you have checked for swapped lat/long as already suggested--or possibly missing a "-" sign somewhere. I also assume your current location and your POIs are all located in the map you currently have installed.

But for "unable to calculate a route," if the POI location is beyond the outer boundary of your routable map (e.g., trying to route to Buenos Aires Argentina with City Navigator North America NT) you can not route to it. Ditto for folks who find that they've unchecked City Navigator in their nuvi and wonder why they can't route anywhere. Given your statement that POIs are over 4000 miles from your current location, it's very likely that they're "off the map."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons

One last thought. GPSBabel and Linux are not commonly discussed here and if your issue is related to the software or OS, you may do better asking on other sites and forums.

well have a cool script and running the right commands I try to do as much on linux as possible but in this instance the result was me defaulting and using garmin poi loader in windows.

in other words i gave up same csvs and bmp icons and all works fine with garmin poi loader so something simply is not going right here with gpsbabel

thanks for the replies all

Try to duplicate the issue you're having. See it it's OS related or simply a syntactical error.

this is a gpsbabel error i have tried for an entire day straight to get this to work properly no one can point out anything wrong with my syntax above and linux is not the problem.

I have also tried various other syntax as well and nothing works

You never said why you were using GPSBabel. Enlighten us, please

I think it's because he wanted to install Custom POIs from a computer running Linux OS and there's no Linux version of POI Loader.

thanks craig - I should have realized that.

You need to use Garmin CSV format (-i garmin_poi) to recognize fields as longitude, latitude, POI name, description.

The generic CSV format you chose (-i csv) expects fields in order of latitude, longitude, POI name

Very nice. Let's hope decadude is still reading this thread.

I had been looking but could not find what you did.

Do you know whether uniscv would have worked if decadude had put the field structure in the first line?

@jgermann: Don't know, but it would also have worked with csv format using a filter to reverse longitude/latitude (-x swap).
You'd lose the address information though...