Combine LOC files then load?

[chuckr30]

I have a Garmin 76csx. I use EasyGPS to load the free LOC files from geocaching.com. However, I often download 10 or more LOC files, and in Easygps I have to open each LOC file, then click Send to GPS. I believe these are text files. Can I concat multiple LOC files together then use EasyGPS to load all geocaches from one big LOC file?

 

I have windows XP.

[+fratermus]

I have a Garmin 76csx. I use EasyGPS to load the free LOC files from geocaching.com. However, I often download 10 or more LOC files, and in Easygps I have to open each LOC file, then click Send to GPS. I believe these are text files. Can I concat multiple LOC files together then use EasyGPS to load all geocaches from one big LOC file?

 

They are text, but are XML so concatenation would end up with a poorly-formed document that Easy would likely reject.

 

You can use something like gpsbabel to combine them. Or multiply select the files to open them all at once (ctrl-a or whatever). You'd still have to send them individually, but at least you wouldn't have to open them individually.

 

I think GC should allow users (premium or otherwise) to collect waypoints from multiple pages and download them all at once, but AFAIK it isn't being done that way now.

[+ICHTHYS]

You can download and use GSAK for free. But you will have to deal with the nag screens if you don't eventually register it. But GSAK will allow you to put all of the .loc files into one database.

[chuckr30]

I cannot select multiple files in Easygps to open them (tried that) nor can I select multiple LOC files to send them to a GPS because each LOC file opens as its own tab in the Easygps interface.

 

You are right. LOC files are XML. I was thinking of some other GPS file I viewed which was simply a single line of text. Perhaps it was a GPX file.

[Dale_Lynn]

There is a program called "EasyGPS Companion" that supposedly will combine multiple .loc files and create a single output file that contains all the data from the multiple .loc files.

 

Unfortunately I do not have a source for program. Good news is the information is buried somewhere on this forum... Author did not deem it necessary for include contact information for program which is a bummer...

 

<Edit> UPDATE...

 

Found program source...

 

http://www.factsfacts.com/geocachingsoft/EZCompanion.htm

 

 

Dale

Edited January 24, 2007 by Dale_Lynn

[+larryc43230]

There is a program called "EasyGPS Companion" that supposedly will combine multiple .loc files and create a single output file that contains all the data from the multiple .loc files.

 

Unfortunately I do not have a source for program. Good news is the information is buried somewhere on this forum... Author did not deem it necessary for include contact information for program which is a bummer...

 

Dale

You can download EasyGPS Companion from this Web site.

 

--Larry

[robertlipe]

GPSBabel can do the file combining and the receiver upload all at once.

 

You can even hook it up in your web browser to do it automatically if that turns you on

[+Wadcutter]

EasyGPS Companion does exactly what you are wanting done. Works very well and is easy to use.

[+fratermus]

I cannot select multiple files in Easygps to open them (tried that) nor can I select multiple LOC files to send them to a GPS because each LOC file opens as its own tab in the Easygps interface.

 

In my version of EasyGPS I can CTRL-A or CTRL-leftclick to selectively add. I don't know why this doesn't work for yours.

 

You are right. LOC files are XML. I was thinking of some other GPS file I viewed which was simply a single line of text. Perhaps it was a GPX file.

 

poi .csv files are plain text, one record per line. Maybe that's what's coming to mind.