+jollybgood Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 I always download a long list of caches using EasyGPS and then spend a great deal of time going down the list and renaming the caches from the GHXXXX format or whatever to names which mean something (i.e. the actual name of the cache). I would LOVE to be able to simply swap out the comments field which has the cache name with the field the contains the GHXXXX type names. IN other words I wish EasyGPS (or some other program/utility) would automate this tedious process. I've heard GeoBuddy does this but for the life of me I can't figure out how it's done. Any ideas? Jolly R. Blackburn http://kenzerco.com Quote Link to comment
+Gimpy Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Hey, Jolly. Just open geobuddy & go to the "file" drop down menu. Hit preferences. From that menu. select "create waypoint id from waypoint name". And that'll do it. "Gimpy" Quote Link to comment
+Gimpy Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Hey, Jolly. Just open geobuddy & go to the "file" drop down menu. Hit preferences. From that menu. select "create waypoint id from waypoint name". And that'll do it. "Gimpy" Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Jolly B Good: I would LOVE to be able to simply swap out the comments field which has the cache name with the field the contains the GHXXXX type names. IN other words I wish EasyGPS (or some other program/utility) would automate this tedious process. I outlined a trick for doing this just last week. Yeah, it's a bit deceiving that the answer to a question about EasyGPS is in a thread titled "Geobuddy", but 'dems da breaks. See the thread here: http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=5740990093&m=8310996525&r=5830914625#5830914625 Quote Link to comment
+jollybgood Posted August 6, 2002 Author Share Posted August 6, 2002 Thinks guys. This is exactly what I was looking for. I do have two questions about Geobuddy however... I tried saving my edited waypoint file as a mapsource waypoint file but Mapsource won't open it. Am I doig something wrong? Also, is there a way to globally replaced the waypoit icon. I'd like to turh ALL of them into the Geocache icon. I figured out to make the waypoint TYPE all the same but when I open the file in EasyGPS it still shows the simple waypoint icon. Jolly R. Blackburn http://kenzerco.com Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 I don't know if other GPS's have this feature, but on my Meridian, there is a field for "comments" or something like that. When I download waypoints for GC.com, the cache name (minus vowels) is in the comments fields, which helps me figure out what cache it is. Jamie Quote Link to comment
+ZachNLiam Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 When you save a MapSource file from GeoBuddy, you have to IMPORT it into MapSource. You can't use the "open" command. It works really well. Quote Link to comment
+mikemtn Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Jamie Z:I don't know if other GPS's have this feature, but on my Meridian, there is a field for "comments" or something like that. When I download waypoints for GC.com, the cache name (minus vowels) is in the comments fields, which helps me figure out what cache it is. Jamie I used to get that on my GPS 12 but then one day a date started showing up in that space. _______________________________ Mike Never forget, It's just a game. Quote Link to comment
+jollybgood Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 Got everything working. Importing still didn't seem to fix the waypoint problem for me, however. But I found out how to do a find/replace globally using notepad so I'm happy. Jolly R. Blackburn http://kenzerco.com Quote Link to comment
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