Extra_POI_Editor update by TurboCCC

 

After 2 years I think, here's an update to Extra_POI_Editor (EPE).

Changes from v5.32 to beta v5.35
•Fixed the Geocoding and Batch Geocoding functions
•Reduced the maximum POI loaded in EPE to 500,000 instead of 1,000,000.
•Fixed a runtime error when hitting the Grab button before the map is drawn in the POI Edit window.

You can download the update using the link below. For the first time used, use the installer instead.

http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor#Extra_POI_Ed...

Enjoy!

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I just got the wiki message

I just got the wiki message and thank you very much. Nice to hear from you again, hope all is well.

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Thanks

Thank you very much for the update.

Thanks for the update

My favorite program for creating and modifying POI files.

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Welcome back!

It's good to see that you're back, even if for a brief time. Thanks for updating EPE. Your contribution to this forum and the users here are very much appreciated. Thank you!

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Thank you

Thank you

Love It!!!

Thanks, Turbo

Thanks Turbo

Welcome back!

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Big Thanks!

Thanks Turbo for taking the time out of your busy schedule to release this update.

EPE is an essential tool for most of us here at The Factory! grin grin

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Thanks

Thank you, Turbo.

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Steve - 2 Nuvi 3597

Great

Your update worked perfectly for me and a new poi file that was waiting for geocoding. Thanks again.

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Welcome Back

Thanks, Turbo!

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Life is good once again

smile

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Thank you for this

Thank you for this smile

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Glad to see it works. Sorry you had to wait so long. I forgot how useful this program was in the POI community. I'll try to watch my emails more closely.

useful???

turboccc wrote:

Glad to see it works. Sorry you had to wait so long. I forgot how useful this program was in the POI community. I'll try to watch my emails more closely.

Hell's bell's - it's the go to app.

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Thank you for Updating

I really like good software,and this is GREAT!

Hi Turbocc

Hi man! Thanks for the update! I think fond memories of you every time I use my Garmin and hear the edited Voice commands!

Thanks for all you have done and all you are doing!

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Many Thanks

Thank you for the update Turbo, this fixed something that apparently Google broke for us and had to use a workaround. Now we're back on track! Glad so see you have a moment to check in at the POI Factory and is always good to hear from you.

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For all Extra Poi Editor lovers

If you appreciate and often use this program, consider thanking TurboCCC in making a small donation wink

From his website:
http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor

Extra_POI_Editor is a FREE tool (as per the EULA terms). If you want to contribute and encourage further developments, feel free to make a small donation (5$, 10$, ...) by clicking the PayPal button. All donations will be used to buy flowers, chocolate and dinner to my wife in exchange for letting me spend time to work on the programs. Thank you in advance. Yours truly, TurboCCC.

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I did!

canuk wrote:

For All Extra Poi Editor Lovers.

If you appreciate and often use this program, consider thanking TurboCCC in making a small donation wink

From his website:
http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor
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@canuk,
thanks for bringing this up.

I just followed your suggestion and made a donation.

If others of you would like to do so, then - when you click on the link to Turbo's website - click on the small blue "Support" link on the left hand side of the page. Then, click on the yellow "donate" button.

Thanks for the donations!

Thanks for the chocolates, jgermann. wink I can't promise I'll start making new updates every week or month as before, but I'll try to fix at least the major problems.

Major problems?

turboccc wrote:

Thanks for the chocolates, jgermann. wink I can't promise I'll start making new updates every week or month as before, but I'll try to fix at least the major problems.

Those were all authored by Garmin... cool

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Many Thanks!

This is a terrific body of work Turbo. Thank you for your efforts in creating Extra POI Editor and your generosity in sharing it with us.

FYI, Norton Internet Security still doesn't like the download though. Not sure why but I ran it anyway without incident.

Keep up the good work and Thanks again!

Norton

bdhsfz6 wrote:

This is a terrific body of work Turbo. Thank you for your efforts in creating Extra POI Editor and your generosity in sharing it with us.

FYI, Norton Internet Security still doesn't like the download though. Not sure why but I ran it anyway without incident.

Keep up the good work and Thanks again!

I also run Norton. Norton Insight displays the warning because there are very few users of the downloaded file and no history of it's safety in their database.

No big deal. I just tell it to skip it and keep installing. I trust Turbo. wink

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Tampa, FL - Garmin nüvi 660 (Software Ver 4.90), 2021.20 CN NA NT maps | Magellan Meridian Gold

And I trust Avast far more

And I trust Avast far more than I trust Norton or McAfee. Point being that Norton is the problem here, not EPE. Switch your antivirus to something better.

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Glad to see you are ok.

And thanks for the uppdate.
Seems for me that the EPE works fine for gpx,csv,ov2 etc. creation.

I dont know if you even considering fixing bugs in
the gpi creation but here are two I know of.

1. Timestamp. EPE makes the same timestamp in gpi for every file, this makes the gps ignore more than one gpi created with EPE.
Workaround: change the bytes with an hex editor.

2. EPE mix up the ikons. Wrong ikon to wrong file when using multiply files.

BTW, the BearingList for directional alerts are now
supported by the new nuvi xxx5. I think you made this ready for gpi creation once but removed it again course the Nuvi diddent support it yet.

Improvements

1. If you know the date format, I will fix it and always have the right date & time.

2. Oh man! smile

3. I need to dig this some more. I cracked that format long ago but I never implemented it. Now I am not sure I have notes about it. I have to look.

Thanks for looking in to it.

1. I belive the date format is second since 01.01.1990,
4 byte changed ,adress hex=byte 10-13.

2. Looks like ikons jump one ikon. If I have name like xxx1, xxx2 , xxx3 .Ikon xxx1 goes to file xxx2, ikon xxx2-file xxx3, ikon xxx3 - file xxx1.

I really appreciate that you want to look in to this.

icon stuff

Icon stuff could be really complicated. Are we talking about poi map icons? The ones going on the map?

It looks like icons are shifted as if I used 0-based numbering but it starts really at 1 (or the opposite). In that case, it should be easy to figure out. I am surprised nobody reported this before now.

date stuff

1. Date stuff looks good. As you said, the date in seconds since Jan 1990.

Icon Stuff

We are talking about the poi map ikons .
Here is an brand new test so I'm not mistaken:

Files:
Fotoboks_40SE get ikon Fotoboks_50SE,
Fotoboks_50SE get ikon Fotoboks_60SE,
Fotoboks_60SE get ikon Fotoboks_70SE,
Fotoboks_70SE get ikon Fotoboks_80SE,
Fotoboks_80SE get ikon Fotoboks_90SE,
Fotoboks_90SE get ikon Fotoboks_90SE,
Fotoboks_100SE get ikon Fotoboks_40SE,

ikon Fotoboks_100SE did not appear anywhere.

Looked for spelling errors, but could not find any.

BTW

I did the Export by > Filename

One more test

csv poi files and bmp ikon.

Fotoboks_40SE get ikon Fotoboks_50SE,
Fotoboks_50SE get ikon Fotoboks_60SE,
Fotoboks_60SE get ikon Fotoboks_70SE,
Fotoboks_70SE get ikon Fotoboks_70SE.

Ikon Fotoboks_40SE did not appear.

Thanks

Thanks. I loaded the new version & it's working very well. I appreciate it.

Fred

Thanks for the update...

Thanks for the update...

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Icon issue is fixed!

vestenfjell wrote:

We are talking about the poi map ikons .
Here is an brand new test so I'm not mistaken:

Files:
Fotoboks_40SE get ikon Fotoboks_50SE,
Fotoboks_50SE get ikon Fotoboks_60SE,
Fotoboks_60SE get ikon Fotoboks_70SE,
Fotoboks_70SE get ikon Fotoboks_80SE,
Fotoboks_80SE get ikon Fotoboks_90SE,
Fotoboks_90SE get ikon Fotoboks_90SE,
Fotoboks_100SE get ikon Fotoboks_40SE,

ikon Fotoboks_100SE did not appear anywhere.

Looked for spelling errors, but could not find any.

Fixed! Waiting for feedback from vestenfjell. If it works well, I will release this new version

Bearing and Circles

Does anyone knows if POI_Loader now supports Bearing list and Circle list?

The last time I checked none was supported.

1- Circles were supported by EPE and correctly inserted in the .gpi file (Save as .GPI). If POI_Loader supports it, I'd like to have a .GPX file to check the syntax. I already know that my CircleList should be called AlertCircleList.

2- Bearings were not supported by EPE and not supported by GPS. I am told that a certain number of GPS units (2xx5, 34xx and 35xx) now supports Bearing lists. One must use GPI_Creator (from Garmin) to create GPI with bearings.

If there is some interest, I could implement the Bearing list in EPE if someone wants to test it. I was wondering about POI_Loader because it would be good for me to compare and check the syntax. Currently EPE puts the Bearing list in comments to avoid causing issues with POI_Loader.

Bearing List

Turbo,

Great program but I did have trouble with circle lists on my Zumo 660. Seems sometimes it would still activate when entering the main proximity of the POI and also play the alert wav or mp3 multiple times. I would love to try working with the bearing list and provide you with feedback. Would be nice to be able to link different sound files based on travel direction. Thanks again for your excellent work and glad to see you are still alive and well.

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TurboCCC

Is back and working hard updating his excellent programs, moo moo moo wink

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Moo Moo Moo

@canuk: A COW for Turbo? I'm all for that.

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Moo³

A COW, eh?

Excellent idea!!

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OH YES !!

turboccc wrote:
vestenfjell wrote:

We are talking about the poi map ikons .
Here is an brand new test so I'm not mistaken:

Files:
Fotoboks_40SE get ikon Fotoboks_50SE,
Fotoboks_50SE get ikon Fotoboks_60SE,
Fotoboks_60SE get ikon Fotoboks_70SE,
Fotoboks_70SE get ikon Fotoboks_80SE,
Fotoboks_80SE get ikon Fotoboks_90SE,
Fotoboks_90SE get ikon Fotoboks_90SE,
Fotoboks_100SE get ikon Fotoboks_40SE,

ikon Fotoboks_100SE did not appear anywhere.

Looked for spelling errors, but could not find any.

Fixed! Waiting for feedback from vestenfjell. If it works well, I will release this new version

Latest version works like a dream.
Tested numbers, letters , merge forward , backward and random. Cant find any bugs.
Great work. (Again)

Vestenfjell.

New

I sense a new version on the horizon. grin

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Tampa, FL - Garmin nüvi 660 (Software Ver 4.90), 2021.20 CN NA NT maps | Magellan Meridian Gold

New version

Yes, a new version is coming.

1- I fixed the icon issue when exporting to .GPI (File-Export By-). Note that there was not problem when using Save as .GPI.

2- I coded the Bearing List information when saving/exporting to .GPI. I finished last night so I need to test a little bit. I was out tonight so you can expect something in a day or two.

Turbo, Just a quick question..

turboccc wrote:

Yes, a new version is coming.

1- I fixed the icon issue when exporting to .GPI (File-Export By-). Note that there was not problem when using Save as .GPI.

2- I coded the Bearing List information when saving/exporting to .GPI. I finished last night so I need to test a little bit. I was out tonight so you can expect something in a day or two.

I am wondering something.. When I launch your App, and when I am done with it, My Process goes to 100%.. I need to 1 of 2 things, Wait for about 2 minutes so that you app closes, or just kill the task (which is what I do now) I dont mind and know what is going on.. Just wondering why it is doing that? I am running XP with all updates.

No need to try to fix it I can live with that.. Your app is very, VERY, Very (did I say very) useful to me!!

Thanks Turbo.. Btw, Glad you got my email to you.

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Bobkz - Garmin Nuvi 3597LMTHD/2455LMT/C530/C580- "Pain Is Fear Leaving The Body - Semper Fidelis"

Is anyone else having a issue today with EPE? (11/20/2013)

I am having a issue with EPE today .. Keeps wanting to debug when I try to use the map.. I am thinking it is my machine but just want to be sure its not Google Maps acting up today.

Hope to hear from someone soon!

Edit: the script error I am getting is:

"http://maps.gstatic.com/cat_js/intl/en_us/mapfiles/api-3/15/1/%7Bmain,adsense,geometry,zombie%7D.js"

And this is happing to bot the new and old relese of EPE

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reset

bobkz wrote:

I am having a issue with EPE today .. Keeps wanting to debug when I try to use the map.. I am thinking it is my machine but just want to be sure its not Google Maps acting up today.

Hope to hear from someone soon!

Edit: the script error I am getting is:

"http://maps.gstatic.com/cat_js/intl/en_us/mapfiles/api-3/15/1/%7Bmain,adsense,geometry,zombie%7D.js"

And this is happing to bot the new and old relese of EPE

You may need to reset EPE. It clears everything so you will need to reset your preferences.

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Tried it..

Box Car wrote:
bobkz wrote:

I am having a issue with EPE today .. Keeps wanting to debug when I try to use the map.. I am thinking it is my machine but just want to be sure its not Google Maps acting up today.

Hope to hear from someone soon!

Edit: the script error I am getting is:

"http://maps.gstatic.com/cat_js/intl/en_us/mapfiles/api-3/15/1/%7Bmain,adsense,geometry,zombie%7D.js"

And this is happing to bot the new and old relese of EPE

You may need to reset EPE. It clears everything so you will need to reset your preferences.

Did that already no luck.. Ah this sucks.. Going to try another PC maybe. If I turn off the internet, all works great (but no map shows of course.

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Bobkz - Garmin Nuvi 3597LMTHD/2455LMT/C530/C580- "Pain Is Fear Leaving The Body - Semper Fidelis"

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Just tried EPE, and the maps are showing.

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Nov 20 EPE is OK for me

bobkz wrote:

Edit: the script error I am getting is:

"http://maps.gstatic.com/cat_js/intl/en_us/mapfiles/api-3/15/1/%7Bmain,adsense,geometry,zombie%7D.js"

And this is happing to bot the new and old relese of EPE

No errors here. That script is accessible to me.

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