Here a Ideal

Hi buttercup

was that haunted places you were looking for a POI for ?

There is a haunted places POI file at

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/17394

Haunted

i am getting upset just about every file is cvs or file for tomtom i am going gpx

get extra poi editor, and convert to gpx

Actually a lot of files are in CSV format which will work perfectly on a Garmin device. Most all POI files here will be in CSV or GPX for Garmin and OV2 for TomTom.

Extra POI Editor can be found at http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor. Also. http://www.poi-factory.com/node/41653. . You can give Notepad a try and make a file that you could post to the site. http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25752

Most of the files posted here are CSV for the simple reason they are easy to build. The file format has a maximum of four fields with the first two being the POI coordinates, the third entry is the name displayed for the location. The fourth field can contain additional information and often has the street address, phone number, city, state, and post or zip code.

The GPX format is much more robust in that every entry has to be defined and the creator is able to enter the data for each field in any order because it is named and defined. GPX formatted files have two advantages over CSV in the the telephone numbers in a GPX can be dialed from the Bluetooth linked GPS and the creator can determine how the data is displayed somewhat on the screen. Garmin controls exactly where each defined item is displayed as well as the amount of information that can be displayed on any one line.

There are several of us on the forum that take the time to breakdown specific CSV files and convert them to a full featured GPX file, but those files are not posted as it would create a nightmare for the SysOp trying to insure the proper person was credited and no feelings were hurt from the reposting of someone's initial effort.

Converting CSV files to GPX is not something you would normally get involved in until you knew what you wanted, determined which files to load and were comfortable with the XML language used to define a GPX and a spreadsheet program where you manipulate the different CSV fields using the spreadsheet text handling functions. That said, converting files from CSV to full featured GPX is kind of a "geek" or power-user thing. We would be glad to help you, but unless you are very familiar with using Excel or another spreadsheet program and the user written Extra_POI_Editor (EPE for short) it can be very frustrating.

I seem to have somehow become confused with your "Ideal" and how it relates to a GPS. Please explain.

Not only are the below "IDEAL" definitions confusing as it pertains to GPS, but the rest of your post as well.

*Ethics Ideal: values that one actively pursues as goals
*Platonic ideal: a philosophical idea of trueness of form
*Ring Theory Ideal: subsets of a ring in abstract algebra
*Order Theory Ideal: special kind of lower sets of an order
*Set Theory Ideal: a collection of sets regarded as small
*Lie Algebra Ideal: a particular subset in Lie algebra
*Point Ideal: a boundary point in hyperbolic geometry
*Triangle Ideal: hyperbolic geometry whose vertices are points
*Chain Ideal: the simplest model describing a polymer
*Gas Law Ideal: in physics, governing the pressure of a gas
*Transformer Ideal: transformers with zero resistance
*Final Result Ideal: TRIZ methodology and the best solution
*Phrenology Ideal: the disposition towards refinement
*Type Ideal: a social science term
*Solution Ideal: thermodynamic properties analogous to gases

Nuvi1300WTGPS

Think it has anything to do with ideal.. Rather an IDEA and it's misspelled which sends us all on wild snipe chases....

Just converting a .csv file to a .gpx file doesn't gain you anything. Same data, different format. Unless someone takes the time to enrich the data, it's just a preference in file format... The Garmin line will present the two the same way on the end device.

Using a GPX file you can set distance parameters in the file using EPE and then load them using the Express setting in POI loader.
As far as I know CSV files do not let you do that.

I would think that would fall under "enrich the data".

Fantastic! Thanks for the info.

There are some subtle differences in how the data is presented from a GPX file versus a CSV. When searching for a location a GPX file displays the address under the POI name while the CSV just shows the name. There may be others, but it's been a while since I've played with the formatting that can be accomplished using the GPX file format. Indents, numbered lines, I believe bullets and a host of other formatting tricks are available. I don't do any of them anymore as it is a bit of a pain.