#Gpi To Gpx Converter Pc

You should look at your unit and/or card with your PC so you actually see what.

If you renamed the POILoader-generated 'poi.gpi' to another name like 'My pois.gpi' I don't think POILoader will delete them. gpi file on the card as well that you'll need to find & delete.Īnother afterthought (sorry, it's early for me). if Oregon's can use a memory card you might also have another. Just a thought, not familiar with Oregon's.Īn afterthought. I wouldn't think that you made a large number of them favorites though so they shouldn't take up a lot of room. Or, by editing 'current.gpx' (look through the threads here for editing Favorites, etc). You may have to delete them manually on your unit by using a menu under Favorites or in Setup. When they are made a Favorite they will stay on the unit even after the original poi file is removed. gpi file, but then you can 'manually' save them as a Favorite once they are there. I'm not sure about the Oregon, but on a nuvi it's possible to load poi's as custom poi's with a. That means you didn't get it off of your unit. The reason I ask where you got the file from is that you stated that the GPSr is not recognized as a drive. You can use Mapsource to transfer your favorites to and from the unit and POILoader to handle the POIs. Mapsource and POILoader will talk to your GPSr.

#Gpi To Gpx Converter download

Where did you download the POI.gpi file from? Ps.when I connect my GPS to my laptop, my laptop does not recognize the GPS unit as a seperate 'drive'.

#Gpi To Gpx Converter how to

Is there another solution, or do I need to shell out the $25? for a decent converter I can figure out how to use? I've found what appears to be a couple of 'free' download converters but either I can't figure out the instructions to use the converter or like on the download appears to cost $25? Then I find out the Garmin POI downloader doesn't recognize gpi files in order to download to my 2720. I downloaded the POI downloader and managed to download the POI.gpi file to a folder on my hard drive. Navigate to the folder where the output file was placed and open the file with EPE or Wordpad.Garmin 2720 and MapSource 2009 is difficult enough to figure out how to use. For our purposes, the Translation Options will have 'Waypoints' checked For the 'Output', select File and use the down-arrow at the right of the Format field to fiind 'GPX XML'.Ĭlose GPSBabel. Click on the 'File Name' button and navigate to the.gpi file you wish to convert. It's a converter “Swiss Army Knife” for GPS, and help us move from GPI to. In the bottom section, you should see a 'Translation successful' message.īut as CSV or GPX are easily editable with any program, the GPI is. Finally, give the output a file name and click the Save button of the 'Output File Name' dialog. Then click on the 'File Name' button and navigate to the folder in which you want the output to be placed. For our purposes, the Translation Options will have 'Waypoints' checked For the 'Output', select File and use the down-arrow at the right of the Format field to fiind 'GPX XML'. For the 'Input', select File and use the down-arrow at the right of the Format field to fiind 'Garmin Points of Interest (.gpi)'.

#Gpi To Gpx Converter windows

I chose the GPSBabel for Windows (which at the time of this writing was 'GPSBabel-1.5.1-Setup.exe') After installing GPSBabel, open the program.

Scroll down until you see the Latest Release section and then choose the version for your computer. I'll check the GSAK forum, maybe somebody already had a similar problem.Ĭonvert a GPI file from Your Garmin to.gpx format For this, we will use GPSBabel. Multi.gpi with category 'multi' and icon file multi.bmp. I want to apply different filters and run a GPI export with the according category and icon file path (relative to gsak.exe), e.g. Converter also supports more than 90 others vector and rasters GIS/CAD formats and more than 3 000 coordinate reference systems. The export works fine from the UI, but I can't get it working the way I want it from a macro. Our online converter of Keyhole Markup Language Zipped format to GPS Exchange Format format (KMZ to GPX) is fast and easy to use tool for both individual and batch conversions.

#Gpi To Gpx Converter portable

I have been using POI Loader so far, but now I'm working on a portable script to process my pocket queries, and POI Loader does not support any command line calls (except /silent to run the last configuration). Has anybody managed to get the description working in gpi files with GPSBABEL?

I use the following GPSBABEL command: gpsbabel.exe -i gpx -f traditional.gpx -o garmin_gpi,descr -F traditional.gpi The descr option should write the gpx description in the gpi address field, but it seems that only the Groundspeak:name element is written in the address field. The gpx files are created with GSAK and include the Groundspeak XML elements. I'm trying to convert gpx files into Garmin POI files (gpi extension) with GPSBABEL, but the description is missing in the gpi files.