Garmin GPS - inputting waypoints

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inputting waypoints

sjlane@qinetiq.com

2006-01-24, 5:49 pm

Hello, Does anyone know of a method of inputting new Waypoints into a
Garmin Legend. I have a program that generates waypoint locations in an
ascii file. To avoid having to input these locations into the legend
by hand i need a way to load this info into the Legend. Ideally the
solution would convert the info in the ascii file into a garmin *.GDB
file that i could sent to the Garmin using mapsource software, or
alternatively there might be a program that communicates directly with
Garmin. Any help would be appreciated.

Steve

Joel

2006-01-24, 5:49 pm

<sjlane@qinetiq.com> wrote:
>Hello, Does anyone know of a method of inputting new Waypoints into a
>Garmin Legend. I have a program that generates waypoint locations in an
>ascii file. To avoid having to input these locations into the legend
>by hand i need a way to load this info into the Legend. Ideally the
>solution would convert the info in the ascii file into a garmin *.GDB
>file that i could sent to the Garmin using mapsource software, or
>alternatively there might be a program that communicates directly with
>Garmin. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm interested in the latter type of program. Surely
somebody has done the little bit of hacking required to
generate a little com program. I poked around a bit a
few months back but didn't find anything concrete.
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Stan Gosnell

2006-01-24, 5:49 pm

sjlane@qinetiq.com wrote in news:1138109963.727486.243210
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> Hello, Does anyone know of a method of inputting new Waypoints into a
> Garmin Legend. I have a program that generates waypoint locations in an
> ascii file. To avoid having to input these locations into the legend
> by hand i need a way to load this info into the Legend. Ideally the
> solution would convert the info in the ascii file into a garmin *.GDB
> file that i could sent to the Garmin using mapsource software, or
> alternatively there might be a program that communicates directly with
> Garmin. Any help would be appreciated.

GPSBabel. It will convert almost any file format to almost any other,
and Garmin is well supported. You can convert from .csv or text and send
directly to the GPS, or from the GPS to a file on the PC. You can
convert to a mapsource file and upload separately if you wish, but that's
an extra step you don't need. GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) will
make it a little easier, and uses GPSBabel in the background to do the
conversions, but you don't really need it for this use.

--
Regards,

Stan

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." B. Franklin

Holger Issle

2006-01-24, 5:49 pm

On 24 Jan 2006 05:39:23 -0800, sjlane@qinetiq.com wrote:

> solution would convert the info in the ascii file into a garmin *.GDB
> file that i could sent to the Garmin using mapsource software,

Write your own procedure to write to a gpx file format (ascii with xml
structure) and load it into MapSource.

> or
> alternatively there might be a program that communicates directly with
> Garmin.

You could use TTQV (get your 25 day demo from www.ttqv.de), it imports
loads of formats including your own defined ascii. Or you could try
nh50toptrans (not sure about spelling), a freeware package that should
do the trick.
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Tom H.

2006-01-24, 5:49 pm

G7ToWin, free from http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/g7towin.htm
is another option.

Tom
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> sjlane@qinetiq.com wrote in news:1138109963.727486.243210
> @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:
>
>
> GPSBabel. It will convert almost any file format to almost any other,
> and Garmin is well supported. You can convert from .csv or text and send
> directly to the GPS, or from the GPS to a file on the PC. You can
> convert to a mapsource file and upload separately if you wish, but that's
> an extra step you don't need. GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) will
> make it a little easier, and uses GPSBabel in the background to do the
> conversions, but you don't really need it for this use.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Stan
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." B. Franklin

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