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Merging waypoint gdb files?
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| Steve Calvin 2005-11-09, 11:48 pm |
| ok, probably something stupid that I'm missing.
I have a Garmin 76CS with City Select V6, Trip and Waypoint manager
software.
I have a gdb file with my maps (both CS and Topo), routes, and and
waypoints. A friend of mine sent me another gdb file with the same
information but of different areas.
Is there a way to merge the two gdb files into one?
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Steve
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than just one night"
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| > Is there a way to merge the two gdb files into one?
Open two sessions of MapSource at once. Copy the data from one and
paste it into the other.
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| Steve Calvin 2005-11-09, 11:48 pm |
| Roy wrote:
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> Open two sessions of MapSource at once. Copy the data from one and
> paste it into the other.
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Well I'll be sheep dipped. THANKS Roy. Works like a charm. I never would
have come up with that one!
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Steve
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than just one night"
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| Anyway to merge them into existing Tracks? Doubt but thought I would ask.
Thanks
> Open two sessions of MapSource at once. Copy the data from one and
> paste it into the other.
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Chull wrote:
> Anyway to merge them into existing Tracks? Doubt but thought I would ask.
I'm not sure what you're asking. You can copy tracks from one file to
another as described in my previous post. You can also copy portions
of one track and paste it into another track (within one file, or
between two files). You do this by opening the Track Properties
dialog, selecting the portion you want, select Copy (button or
right-click shortcut menu), then open the track you want to paste it
into and select paste. Is this what you meant?
>From what I've read, there are free 3rd-party programs that have much
better track editing capabilities, but I have no need for that, so I
haven't used them and am not familiar with them. Many are free. If
you search sci.geo.satellite-nav and alt.satellite.gps with Google, you
will find numerous posts about such programs.
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Steve Calvin wrote:
> I never would
> have come up with that one!
You and many others, Steve. Glad I could help. As for your other
question about loading topos on your drive, that's something I know
nothing about; but it sounds like CmdrJoe knows whereof he writes.
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| On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:40:17 GMT, "Chull" <chull001@rochester.rr.Not
Needed.com> wrote:
>Anyway to merge them into existing Tracks? Doubt but thought I would ask.
I've always liked the program G7toWin for managing waypoints, tracks,
etc. In addition to all of it's excellent management capability it
will send tracks and/or waypoints to Street Atlas. I use SA 9.0 and
have always liked it much better than Mapsource for many tasks.
There is capability there that doesn't jump out at you, so it takes
some close examination of all the menu options to realize it's full
potential.
I think it even imports/exports to Mapsource now, and it's free!
I'd guess another, less sophisticated, way to get two sets of data
into mapsource would be to load one into the program from the receiver
and another from a file, but I haven't tried it; I use G7toWin.
Doug
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