GPI to CSV Converter

 

Please recommend an on-line GPI to CSV file-converter site (for Nuvi 1350). My web search has landed me in unhelpful sites.

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ds98

Which GPIs?

What GPIs are you trying to convert? The proprietary Garmin files (Safety Cameras, Truckers, maybe some RV GPS files, etc.) are most likely uncrackable. I expect that other commercial or subscribed Custom POI files may be equally un-reversible.

Here is one way (but not "on-line")

dsahu_98 wrote:

Please recommend an on-line GPI to CSV file-converter site (for Nuvi 1350). My web search has landed me in unhelpful sites.

For this, we will use GPSBabel. Download GPSBabel from http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html. Scroll down until you see the Latest Release section and then choose the version for your computer. I chose the GPSBabel for Windows (which at the time of this writing was "GPSBabel-1.5.1-Setup.exe")

After installing GPSBabel, open the program.

For the "Input", select File and use the down-arrow at the right of the Format field to fiind "Garmin Points of Interest (.gpi)".

Click on the "File Name" button and navigate to the .gpi file you wish to convert.

For our purposes, the Translation Options will have "Waypoints" checked

For the "Output", select File and use the down-arrow at the right of the Format field to fiind "GPX XML".

Then click on the "File Name" button and navigate to the folder in which you want the output to be placed. Finally, give the output a file name and click the Save button of the "Output File Name" dialog.

Click the green OK button.

In the bottom section, you should see a "Translation successful" message.

Close GPSBabel.

Navigate to the folder where the output file was placed and open the file with EPE or Wordpad

GPI Converter

Thank you for detailed instructions. I got the message:

alan: C:/Users/admin/Desktop/Garmin 2014/nuvi 1350/poi.gpi is not in Alan .trl format.

Error running gpsbabel: Process exited unsucessfully with code 1

Please advise.

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ds98

GPI Converter

Realized mistake. Changed input format to .gpi and got:

Translation successful

Thanks again.

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ds98

Curious

Still a bit curious as to what was in the .gpi file that you needed to reverse engineer.

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