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dcrochet
USA
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 Posted - 14 déc. 2003 : 04:35:48
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Geocaching points come in a variety of flavors. Several folks have asked about converting the various formats to 'maplets' for use in Mapopolis. I have experience with Mapopolis Navigator 4.xx (PPC) using 'GPXToMaplet' but the resulting .mlp file should work directly with Mapopolis Navigator 1.xx (Palm). I offer the following experience converting both LOC and CSV file formats. The basic procedure should suffice for many other format conversions. Links to the required utilities are embedded in the procedure: [read here]
P.S. It is also possible to convert LOC, and others, to the older Mapopolis 3.xx/5.xx maplet format. Simply use GPSBabel to convert to the built-in 'Mapopolis.com Mapconverter CSV' format. Then use the results as a source file with MapConverter. The resulting .pdb can be used directly with Mapopolis 5.xx (Palm) or renamed as .mlp for Mapopolis 3.xx (PPC). Please correct me on any of this.
Dell Axim X5 400MHz A04, PPC2002 OS, Mapopolis 4.xx, Fortuna PocketXTrack CF GPS |
Edited by - dcrochet on 16 déc. 2003 20:45:05
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NightPilot
USA
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Posted - 08 févr. 2004 : 00:30:21
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Another possibility:
Cachemate for Palm will export all your geocaches from your .gpx file to Mapopolis. They go into your address book, and you can specify a category. Mine go into the Geocaching category I added, so I can keep the caches separate from the other addresses. Using the address book for geomarks is, I still think, misguided. It really clutters up the address book. I would by far prefer a separate database.
Also GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) converts between most formats, using GPSBabel 'under the hood', so you don't need to know all those command-line parameters to use it. GSAK is a Windows program only. The only programs I use for geocaching now are GSAK, Cachemate, and Plucker, to view the cache pages in the original format. It's possible to do it with any one of these programs alone.
Regards,
Stan
Palm Zire 71, Digitraveler, Garmin eTrex Legend |
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gpspassion
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jasoraso
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Posted - 17 févr. 2005 : 00:45:23
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| I've used the GPX to Maplet program on my windows PC and it works great. BUT, I'm looking for a way to do this on my PocketPC. Does anyone know of any other solutions? Can we bribe the original programer of GPX To Maplet to create a PocketPC version? |
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admin_0
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Posted - 03 mai 2005 : 21:19:16
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Question...
I have an excel file that I am attempting to convert to GPX and then to mlp. My excel does not have an option to save as a custom "everything" style csv.
I have set up the data exactly as shown and exported out as a file.csv. I then tried to create the GPX file using GPSbabel, but am not sucessful.
Any tips on making the excel to gpx work?
If possible, could you post what the csv file should look like?
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Dr_StrangeTrick
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 mai 2005 : 07:04:58
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Hi Longluke, you can use data saved in Excel. Arrange the data in Excel into 4 columns Longitude, Latitude, Name and Information then save this as a CSV file.
Then look at my guide on page 13 of this thread.
Open the POI conversion utility and hit load and set the type to AutoRoute Pushpins CSV, this will load your data then click on save and save as GPX.
Hope this helps.
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dcrochet
USA
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Posted - 09 mai 2005 : 22:57:21
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quote:
Originally posted by longluke
Question...My excel does not have an option to save as a custom "everything" style csv...
Yes...sorry...my tutorial is not very clear there, but it sounds like you're on the right track. Just Save As... CSV (format) in Excel. That's all there is to it. You basically create a "custom everything style CSV" *manually* in Excel by adding the various rows and columns as expected by GPSbabel.
Now...as you know (as shown in the tutorial)...specify "Custom Everything Style CSV" in GPSbabel as part of the file input parameters. Then specify a filename and GPX format as the output paramemter.
That should work. If not, you might try the process on a very small dataset -- say 5 or so rows (records) and see if things work properly. It's not uncommon to have corrupted data in large datasets that won't make it through the GPX-conversion process in GPSbabel. If the reduced dataset CSV file doesn't work for you, please feel free to email me the file and I'll give it a try. 
Dell Axim X5 400MHz A04, PPC2002 OS, Mapopolis 4.xx (ND) routing technique, Fortuna PocketXTrack CF GPS |
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jeepcachr
USA
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Posted - 02 juin 2005 : 20:02:31
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Originally posted by jasoraso
I've used the GPX to Maplet program on my windows PC and it works great. BUT, I'm looking for a way to do this on my PocketPC. Does anyone know of any other solutions? Can we bribe the original programer of GPX To Maplet to create a PocketPC version?
Has any progress been made in getting a pocketPC version? I'm so close to being able to use my pocketPC wirelessly without need of a PC to receive my PQ's and load my GPS's. All I need is this one last peice to travel without a laptop. |
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bluetoothwantabe
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Posted - 22 juin 2005 : 16:16:54
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great guide and great freeware utilities!:)
i have converted a few geocache loc file to mapplet and they load just fine on my ppc, one thing i did notice though is that the coordinate is a little off, according a online calculation tool, it's off by at least 20 meters! I don't think this is normal, is it? |
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dcrochet
USA
1044 Posts |
Posted - 22 juin 2005 : 16:51:24
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Originally posted by bluetoothwantabe
...one thing i did notice though is that the coordinate is a little off, according a online calculation tool, it's off by at least 20 meters! I don't think this is normal, is it?
Quote from the first tutorial: "P.S. As you zoom-out in Mapopolis, a maplet’s pop-up box displays increasingly erroneous coordinates (with ‘Show Coordinates’ selected). However, if you zoom all the way in on a maplet, you should see coordinates displayed accurately within .001 decimal minutes. Perhaps this remaining rounding error is forgivable and only associated with the display function, but it would be nice if maplets offered/revealed a lat/long field just to make sure."
Your correct. Mapopolis does not reflect the coordinate precisely as found in the underlying data (maplet). I think this "rouding error" has to do with the specific pixel Mapopolis uses to generate the coordinates in the popup -- which varies with zoom-level. At max zoom, .001 decimal minutes is 6 feet as I recall.
Dell Axim X5 400MHz A04, PPC2002 OS, Mapopolis 4.xx (ND) routing technique, Fortuna PocketXTrack CF GPS |
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telocat
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Posted - 31 août 2005 : 18:52:13
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Originally posted by longluke
Question...
I have an excel file that I am attempting to convert to GPX and then to mlp. My excel does not have an option to save as a custom "everything" style csv.
I have set up the data exactly as shown and exported out as a file.csv. I then tried to create the GPX file using GPSbabel, but am not sucessful.
Any tips on making the excel to gpx work?
If possible, could you post what the csv file should look like?
thanx
What version of GPSBabel are you using? I could not perform dcrochet's procedure with the latest version of GPSBabel I downloaded when I first tried it out (v1.2.5)
GPSBabel v1.2.5 did not have an Input file format of: 'Custom "Everything" Style' and that is where the procedure failed for me in step 2B (f). The latest version of GPSBabel as of this post v1.2.7 also doesn't seem to have 'Custom "Everything" Style' as an input file format.
For some odd reason I had an older version of GPSBabel v1.2.1 around on my computer so I uninstalled 1.2.5 and installed 1.2.1 and everything worked as advertised!
Any ideas on how to get the newer versions of GPSBabel working?
Again, many thanks to dcrochet for the procedure. At least I have some way of manually creating maplet files and uploading them to Mapopolis.
NOW, IF WE COULD ONLY DOWNLOAD MAPLETS FROM MAPOPOLIS AND CONVERT THEM TO GPX, then I could save a lot of work retyping points that I created and saved inside mapopolis.
Thx, telocat
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Hp Ipaq 2215, Fortuna PocketXtrack, Mapopolis v4.6 (<-- love the new feature to individually control which maplets are displayed!!!!!)
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dcrochet
USA
1044 Posts |
Posted - 31 août 2005 : 20:56:52
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I'll have to take a look at the newer versions of GPSBabel in order to see what it DOES support. You see, the "custom everything style CSV" was only chosen because it seemed to keep the most data intact during the conversion to GPX. More basic CSV formats didn't seem to carry the *category* field, among others, through the processing to GPX. I don't have time to get to this now, but I'm fairly confident at this point that we'll find a replacement format in the newer versions of GPSBabel. Otherwise, this may warrant an enote to the author of GPSBabel.
Dell Axim X5 400MHz A04, PPC2002 OS, Mapopolis 4.xx (ND/NE) routing technique, Fortuna PocketXTrack CF GPS |
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telocat
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Posted - 31 août 2005 : 21:15:01
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quote:
Originally posted by dcrochet
I'll have to take a look at the newer versions of GPSBabel in order to see what it DOES support. You see, the "custom everything style CSV" was only chosen because it seemed to keep the most data intact during the conversion to GPX. More basic CSV formats didn't seem to carry the *category* field, among others, through the processing to GPX. I don't have time to get to this now, but I'm fairly confident at this point that we'll find a replacement format in the newer versions of GPSBabel. Otherwise, this may warrant an enote to the author of GPSBabel.
Dell Axim X5 400MHz A04, PPC2002 OS, Mapopolis 4.xx (ND/NE) routing technique, Fortuna PocketXTrack CF GPS
Sounds great! For now I'm able to perform your steps OK with GPSBabel v1.2.1 so no urgency.
I'm not done playing around with the newer versions of GPSBabel and will report back if I find anything that works.
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HP iPAQ 2215, Fortuna PocketXTrack, Mapopolis v4.6 pre4 |
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ravichander
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Posted - 26 sept. 2005 : 23:08:02
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dcrochet
Thanks for your tutorial. I downloaded the basic LOC file from geocaching and used converted it to mapapolis mapconverter csv file as well as GPX XML file. But when I open the GPXtoMaplet application it is unable to see the GPX files. I was unable to install the mapconverter program on my XP (probably an old version of the program). Any suggestions? I have Tungsten T3 and mapapolis.
Thanks
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dcrochet
USA
1044 Posts |
Posted - 27 sept. 2005 : 03:59:13
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I hope I'm not sending you barking up a wrong tree with a Palm device. As far as I know there is no maplet file support in the current Palm versions. User-POI are integrated through contacts alone, as I understand it. Perhaps some Palm users will chime in here and help you find a solution, but I'm sorry for leading you astray. I'll go ahead and change the original post if I get confirmation on current Palm support, one way or another.
Axim X5 400 A04, PPC2002, Mapopolis 4.6x (NE) routing technique, PocketXTrack CF GPS |
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valkokir
USA
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Posted - 06 janv. 2006 : 03:07:28
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I'll have to take a look at the newer versions of GPSBabel in order to see what it DOES support. You see, the "custom everything style CSV" was only chosen because it seemed to keep the most data intact during the conversion to GPX. More basic CSV formats didn't seem to carry the *category* field, among others, through the processing to GPX. I don't have time to get to this now, but I'm fairly confident at this point that we'll find a replacement format in the newer versions of GPSBabel. Otherwise, this may warrant an enote to the author of GPSBabel.
What are the chances of having this revisited? I cannot find an old version of GPSBabel and am unable to figure out how the new version works with the CSV.
Thanks!
Dell Axim X5 (A05), Deluo Serial Mouse GPS, Pockt Streets, Mapopolis 4.6 |
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