Waypoints In A Text File

[+smartee]

I have some latitude and longitude addresses I have collected in a text file over the years and I would like to put them into a .loc file so I can load them into my GPS.

 

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

 

Thanks

[+Cache Viking]

open a loc file with notepad, wordpad, word or word perfect and see how it is formatted and then try to duplicate it with a couple coords. If it works then go for all of your coords.

[+briansnat]

Moving to Units and Software forum where the experts lurk.

[Neo_Geo]

open a loc file with notepad, wordpad, word or word perfect and see how it is formatted and then try to duplicate it with a couple coords. If it works then go for all of your coords.

Good suggestion - it's what I would've replied. It works.

[lakeuk]

Use G7ToWin (http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/g7towin.htm) and a spreadsheet app like Excel.

 

Get a sample loc file,

Load it into G7ToWin,

Save as a CSV (comma delimited file) from G7ToWin

Load CSV file into Excel,

Replace Lat and Lon details with yours - change any other details you're interested in,

Save CSV file,

Load CSV into G7ToWin,

Save as loc file from G7ToWin

 

Done!!

 

Dave

[Eddy [UK]]

Hi Smartee,

 

GPS Utility will do this for you.

 

It works straight from text files. It will talk directly to your GPS.

 

I use it all the time. Eddy [uK]

[Neo_Geo]

' date='Aug 21 2005, 06:59 AM']

GPS Utility will do this for you.

It works straight from text files. It will talk directly to your GPS.

This is assuming that the text file is properly formatted with all of the waypoint information. It sounds like smartee simply has a collection of coordinates in a simple text file. I don't think the utility will be of much use to him.