Comments on: Creating A Garmin GPS Points Of Interest (POI) File From A Point Shapefile http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:05:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Leszek Pawlowicz http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile/comment-page-1#comment-1104 Leszek Pawlowicz Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:05:20 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile#comment-1104 It's not clear from your comment what coordinate system your original shapefile is in. NAD83 is not a coordinate system, projected or unprojected; it's a datum, a description of the earth's surface that coordinates are projected onto. You need to find out what the exact coordinate system and datum of your shapefile is, specify that as the input coordinate system in MapWindow, then specify geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude), WGS84 as the output coordinates. It sounds as though you specified UTM as the output format in MapWindow, and the results you got are exactly what you'd expect from that. I'm assuming that by "three digit and two digit format", you're looking for output in degrees and minutes. All output from a geographic coordinates shapefile from Shape2Text will be in decimal degrees. It’s not clear from your comment what coordinate system your original shapefile is in. NAD83 is not a coordinate system, projected or unprojected; it’s a datum, a description of the earth’s surface that coordinates are projected onto. You need to find out what the exact coordinate system and datum of your shapefile is, specify that as the input coordinate system in MapWindow, then specify geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude), WGS84 as the output coordinates. It sounds as though you specified UTM as the output format in MapWindow, and the results you got are exactly what you’d expect from that.

I’m assuming that by “three digit and two digit format”, you’re looking for output in degrees and minutes. All output from a geographic coordinates shapefile from Shape2Text will be in decimal degrees.

]]> By: Kevin Jordan http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile/comment-page-1#comment-1103 Kevin Jordan Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:56:22 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile#comment-1103 I have a shapefile that is projected on the NAD 1983 coordinate system. I used MapWindow as you described and selected WGS 1984 17S which should be my coordinate system. I went through the steps and then used Shape2Text and selected .csv file. When I open it in Excel my XCoo and YCoo are 6 digit numbers. Isn't that supposed to come out in a three digit and two digit format? Where could I have gone wrong? Example my XCoo after the re-projection and shape2text conversion is 682479.25 I have a shapefile that is projected on the NAD 1983 coordinate system. I used MapWindow as you described and selected WGS 1984 17S which should be my coordinate system. I went through the steps and then used Shape2Text and selected .csv file. When I open it in Excel my XCoo and YCoo are 6 digit numbers. Isn’t that supposed to come out in a three digit and two digit format? Where could I have gone wrong? Example my XCoo after the re-projection and shape2text conversion is 682479.25

]]> By: Entering Multiple Datasets For A Single Set Of Garmin Custom POIs | Free Geography Tools http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile/comment-page-1#comment-1102 Entering Multiple Datasets For A Single Set Of Garmin Custom POIs | Free Geography Tools Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:13:57 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile#comment-1102 [...] week, I posted on how to convert a point shapefile to a Garmin custom POI file, and how with some manipulation you could include a fair number of the shapefile attributes in that [...] [...] week, I posted on how to convert a point shapefile to a Garmin custom POI file, and how with some manipulation you could include a fair number of the shapefile attributes in that [...]

]]> By: Mike Roose http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile/comment-page-1#comment-1101 Mike Roose Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:11:58 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile#comment-1101 That was the problem! Thanks for your help, and thanks for all the hours hunched over the keyboard to figure out the whole procedure. Priceless! That was the problem! Thanks for your help, and thanks for all the hours hunched over the keyboard to figure out the whole procedure. Priceless!

]]> By: Leszek Pawlowicz http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile/comment-page-1#comment-1100 Leszek Pawlowicz Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:11:31 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile#comment-1100 My first suggestion would be to make sure that when you create the CSV file, make sure that you us double-quotes (") as the text delimiter; if you don't, you'll get exactly the result you're describing. If that's not it, send me a copy of the original CSV file (before substitution), and I'll take a look at it. My first suggestion would be to make sure that when you create the CSV file, make sure that you us double-quotes (”) as the text delimiter; if you don’t, you’ll get exactly the result you’re describing. If that’s not it, send me a copy of the original CSV file (before substitution), and I’ll take a look at it.

]]> By: Mike Roose http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile/comment-page-1#comment-1099 Mike Roose Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:34:39 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-a-garmin-gps-points-of-interest-poi-file-from-a-point-shapefile#comment-1099 Great article! I've gotten everything done, but haven't been able to get the CR/LF characters inserted. When I do the find and replace in OOWriter, '\n' causes a paragraph break to be inserted, which bumps everything to the next field in Calc. Any thoughts? Great article! I’ve gotten everything done, but haven’t been able to get the CR/LF characters inserted. When I do the find and replace in OOWriter, ‘\n’ causes a paragraph break to be inserted, which bumps everything to the next field in Calc. Any thoughts?

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