Extra_POI_Editor up to v5.97 (.gpi file creation discussion - like POI Loader and more)

WknThDg · 31st March 2011, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by tom1807

I thought yesterday about the circles also and the only thing what came to my mind which makes sense is the following.
A speedcamera should only be in a certain range, for example, if driving on the street it makes only sense that the speedcamera covers the current driving direction and range. If a circle is defined, the opposite traffic would not be affected (no alarm) cause the speedcamera is, when driving on the opposite lane, more then 50m or 80m away.
Hope I could explain it understandable

Makes sense to me to...
I thought exactly the same thing, but when you say "cause the speedcamera is, when driving on the opposite lane, more then 50m or 80m away", I would instead say "cause the speedcamera is more then 50m or 80m away when driving the opposite way and the circles are on the other side of it".

**tom1807** · 31st March 2011, 05:11 AM

Sound better

turboccc · 30th April 2011, 01:36 AM

Good news! EPE now supports reading/writing bearing list and circle list from/to GPX file. 2 notes:

1- Garmin extensions only support bearing lists in the GPX files. Not circle list. Because of this, I created my own GPX schemas which allows EPE to read and write both circle list and bearing list.

2- POI Loader does not support circle lists because there is no GPX schema for it(point #1 above). POI Loader does not like bearing lists either. Only GPI Creator supports bearing lists, but no GPS supports them. Life is tough!

To ensure GPX compatibility with both POI Loader and GPI Creator, I put all my bearing lists and circle lists in a special comment statement. This way, they are ignored by both programs except EPE. Yeah!

A couple limitations:

1- My bearing lists will be ignored by GPI Creator. So, even if I provide a way to edit those statements in EPE, you can't use EPE to write GPX files with bearing lists and convert them to .GPI with GPI Creator. No worries! This is just a temporary limitation and I will let you configure this in the Preferences soon.

2- EPE does not save bearing lists and circle lists to .GPI for now. This is the next step.

What can you do for now?

Simply enjoy EPE and give me feedback about the circle list or bearing list interface. You can read/write .GPX files and make sure everything is correctly read/written.

Oh yeah: a little link for v5.13:

Code:

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Turbo

turboccc · 30th April 2011, 07:15 PM

Here's the link for EPE v5.14:

Code:

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What's new:

- Save POI files with circle list to .GPI (cool!)
- Overlay proximity circle on the POI Edit window map.
- Maintain the last zoom level in the POI Edit map when refreshing map

Edit: just fixed a minor issue in v5.14. Just download again.

**949BFN** · 1st May 2011, 09:56 AM

Turboccc – I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this program of yours. I have been looking for a program to add a POI Icon to the “Where to” menu of the GPS for years. I don’t believe Garmin’s Content Toolkit can even do that. Don’t know where anyone can find the time to create a program like EPE in his spare time.
A few things I’m not sure about (and I’ve read through this thread):
1. Have you been able to confirm what the maximum number of extra icons in the “where to” menu of the GPS is? I don’t seem to be able to create more than one on my z�mo 660.
2. I’m not sure if I understand your response to an earlier question in this regard: Normally, with POI Loader, custom POI’s (e.g. “GPS Dealers.gpx”) show up under Where To > Extras > Custom POIs > GPS Dealers. If the POI file is however created with Content Toolkit, is shows up one level higher on the GPS, i.e. Where To > Extras > GPS Dealers. The question is, is it possible to accomplish the latter with EPE (i.e. so that EPE created POI shows up under Extras and not Extras > Custom POI)? If not, could you perhaps add that functionality?
3. Lastly, I’ve not been able to figure out when one would click neither “Emulate POI Loader”, nor “Alternate “Where To” Icon Format” in the programs preferences.
Thanks again for the excellent program.

**949BFN** · 1st May 2011, 05:58 PM

I’ve got another question: If, when creating the GPI to appear directly in the “Where To”, is it possible to create categories? E.g. Where To > Touch “Dealers” icon > List comes up e.g. “GPS”, “New Vehicles”, “Used Vehicles etc. Next touch “GPS” and the list of dealers comes up. Thanks.

turboccc · 1st May 2011, 06:40 PM

@949BFN,

1- The number of Where-To icons seems to be 1 or 2 depending on the GPS used.
2- Good point. If GPI Creator can put it in the first level of Extras, EPE should be able to do the same. I'll keep this in mind.
3- Emulate POI Loader means it will put the POI in the Extra/Custom POIs. Otherwise, it will put the icon in the Where-To menu. When using the Where-To format, the icon format may be disserent depending onthe GPS used. If your custom POI Where-To icon looks bad (garbled or with bad color), try to check the Alternate Icon format and sage to a .gpi again. That should fix the Where-To icon colors.
4- Yes you can. If you use EPE and try to "File->Export as Category" or "Export as Symbol", ... This will automatically create categories under the Where-To icon menu. Same thing if you use Emulate POI Loader: it will create categories under Extras/Custom POIs. Of course, you need to have set the Category (or Symbol) fields in your POIs.

N.B. I am glad you found some use for EPE. I probably spent 1000 hours on it over the past 18 months (learning and coding). I learned a lot of things and I am happy to share the result with everybody. I really think a good POI editor was a missing link in Garmin's portfolio of products. When I got my first GPS 2 years ago, I was disapointed by the fact that most POI files contained only coordinates. I wanted to add the complete address, opening hours, cost for visit and other relevant information. Since I cound not find any free POI Editor, I made EPE for that purpose. Then, people started to ask for features and little by little I added them. The result is the current EPE.

Thank you for your feedback.

Turbo

**949BFN** · 1st May 2011, 08:06 PM

Tx for the response.

**949BFN** · 2nd May 2011, 03:37 PM

Turbo
Me again. I wonder if you could help me. I managed to create a GPI file showing in the Where To menu, with custom icon. But for some or other reason, I’m unable to get the map icons to show up on the GPS. If I use the same icon.bmp file with POI Loader, the bmp is shown as the map icon on the GPS, so I believe my bmp is fine. (24x 24, 96DPI), but no matter what I try, I cannot get EPE to add the icons to the GPI file.
To create the GPI file, I have the following file structure / files:
C:\POI\Legal\ and in this folder, I have “Legal.bmp” and “Legal.gpx”. Legal.gpx contains waypoints assigned to 4 different categories. Legal.bmp is an icon of the well known legal scales I created myself. (And as I say, it works fine with POI Loader). If I understand the help file and the posting on the first page of this thread correct, the icon bmp should be in the same folder as the gpx file, with the exact same name – just as with POI Loader in other words.
C:\POI\WhereToIcons\ and in it Legal1.bmp and Legal2.bmp. Just to be save, I also put a copy of Legal.bmp in this folder.
Path to GPI file Icons points to C:\POI\WhereToIcons and Mapsource Custom Symbal Path to C:\POI\WhereToIcons.
For some or other reason I’ve not been able to figure out the past 2 hours, the map displays a small green dot as the waypoint icon instead of the legal scales icon.
Any idea what I’m missing?

**949BFN** · 2nd May 2011, 05:48 PM

Turbo - The problem seems to be the format of my bmp, but I can't figure out what. Strange thing is that bmps which work with POI Loader, do not work with EPE.

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