Importing Waypoints In Mapopolis

[+tirediron]

Recently broke down and dropped the coin for Mapopolis for my Sony Clie. I am very happy with it, and for the most part the maps are very good. What would make it even better is being able to import a block of waypoints... say my .GPX file into it, so that I can see where all the local urban 'caches are. Is there a way to do this, or do I have to manually enter them one at a time? Thanks all!

[+NightPilot]

Cachemate will export caches to Mapopolis. The caches go in your address book, so make absolutely certain that you make a new category for your caches in your address book, such as Geocaching, or you will spend lots of time removing them when you no longer need them. The coordinates are stored in the Custom1 field in the Palm address book, in the format Ndd.mm.mm Wdd.mm.mm, with a decimal between the degrees and minutes as well as between the minutes and decimal minutes. Weird, but that's the way Mapopolis does it.

[+as77]

Yes, there is, with the PC application GPXToMaplet, download from here: http://www.mdgps.org/pocketcaching/gpxtomaplet.zip

[+tirediron]

Perfect... thanks very much!

[+robert]

Yes, there is, with the PC application GPXToMaplet, download from here: http://www.mdgps.org/pocketcaching/gpxtomaplet.zip

for pocketpc this is the best way to do it. leaves your address book alone

 

edit: should work on palm as well (just noticed the "sony clie" stipulation) but not 100% sure.

Edited June 23, 2004 by robert

[+NightPilot]

Mapopolis Navigator for PalmOS5 does not support maplets, it uses the address book. GPX2Maplet is useless for a Palm OS5 device. I don't like it, but that's the way it is. If you have an older OS4 or previous device, then gpx2maplet is the way to go.

[+tirediron]

Cachemate will export caches to Mapopolis. The caches go in your address book, so make absolutely certain that you make a new category for your caches in your address book, such as Geocaching, or you will spend lots of time removing them when you no longer need them. The coordinates are stored in the Custom1 field in the Palm address book, in the format Ndd.mm.mm Wdd.mm.mm, with a decimal between the degrees and minutes as well as between the minutes and decimal minutes. Weird, but that's the way Mapopolis does it.

Can anyone point me to a "How To" on this? I've looked and can't find any info on getting Cachemate data into Mapopolis.. thanks!

[+NightPilot]

Download the Mapopolis export plugin from the Smittyware site, install it to your Palm, run Cachemate, and click on the 'Ex' button.

[+Renegade Knight]

Mapopolis is no where near as slick as Streets and Trips for waypoints. Of course it beats the snot out of it in about every other catagory. Maybe they should fix this. I'd lay odds that geocachers are a very large part of their customer base.

 

Trippy has a tutorial he hosts somwhere. Maybe on MiGo's home page.? No luck. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong person or wrong site.

Edited June 26, 2004 by Renegade Knight

[+robert]

Trippy has a tutorial he hosts somwhere. Maybe on MiGo's home page.? No luck. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong person or wrong site.

http://www.mdgps.org/modules.php?name=pocketcaching

 

Need to update it though, lots has changed since that was written.