Ms Streets & Trips

[Cyjo]

Ok, I use MS Streets & Trips and for the money I like the program. I recently upgraded from '02 to '04 and the other night I was trying to import waypoints from a comma delimited text file. In the import wizard you can designate the columns to represent certain info in each push pin such as name and address. Not matter what I did thought the points I imported always reported the lat and lon for name and address. I did not have this problem in '02. I checked ms for a fix but could not locate any. Has anyone else seen this and what did you do?

 

Thanks

[robertlipe]

Using GPSBabel and the instructions at http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/formats/s_...Trips_2003.html I routinely load many hundreds of waypoints into S&T 2004. The trick to not having to haggle with the import wizard is to put the "blessed" column names as the first line - or better yet, use a tool that does that for you.

 

Name,Latitude,Longitude,Name 2,URL,Type

GCHQ1A,36.185450,-86.327833,Quarter Mile to the Depot,http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=cca5eb30-0a6c-481c-bbe1-9fae6f70b921,""

[Cyjo]

Thanks I'll try it

[+Criminal]

I have been very disappointed with microsoft over their S&T software. It only accepts one lat long format and the maps look too cartoonish for me. As for the formats, it should be very easy to write in a little logic program that would allow you to enter coordinates in any format and the software would understand what you wanted. The AF uses FalconView, a flight planning program, which does this.

 

I wonder if the programmers have any understanding of latitude and longitude formats

[CoyoteRed]

You need to the change the column type. I'm not at a computer with it right now, but it's the screen right after you see how the data is coming in.

 

When you get to that screen change the column header to the appropriate type.

[+bob393]

It's not frendly but it works. For me anyway.