Another Gpsbabel Problem

[+Volwrath]

This is a general FYI to people who have attempted to convert .csv files created from Microsoft Office into another format such as mapsource. The Microsoft Office .csvs are not padded with a space after the comma. This leads to many problems in my experience attempting to convert them into a good format. This is using the GUI wrapper of GPS babel. The simple solution is to add a space after the comma and then GPSBabel will read it fine. It is my hope that I can save some frustration from other people in the conversion process. I know if I knew that little tidbit I could have saved some time!!!

[robertlipe]

Thanx for the report.

 

I just committed a change in the development tree to address this. The "csv" format (as well as MXF, Mapconverter, and Xmap) will now write commaspace on output but read commas and discard the spaces.

 

This'll be in the next beta or relelase.