I’ll cover a simple way to get around this limitation using OpenOffice’s “Write” program in an upcoming post. But CSVed doesn’t support embedded carriage returns in a CSV cell, and OpenOffice’s Calc doesn’t seem to have a way to enter a carriage return directly into a text spreadsheet cell, either. In Excel, you can also add carriage returns to a text cell with Alt-Enter. If you create or edit the CSV file in a text editor, it’s easy to add carriage returns to the text. If a single line broken by a carriage return doesn’t fit into a single line on the display, it’s wrapped over to the next line. There are now two lines of Name data, because I inserted a carriage return after “a”, and the first four lines of text of Description data, with each line defined by a carriage return the extra lines are truncated. If I modify the data above to look like this ( means a carriage return, or Enter):ĬSV file with breaks”,”Here is an exampleĪnd display associated with a name and position” If you want to force breaks in the data so that it will display in a new line, you can do that by enclosing the text (either the Name or Description or both) in quotes, and then separating each desired block of text with a carriage return. Also, text that won’t fit onto the four available lines is truncated. Notice that the description text fills a line to the maximum possible length, and then wraps over to the next line. Loaded into a GPS, the data screen looks like this: The above is one continuous line of text, with no carriage return or linefeeds, and no quotes around the text. 110,35,Test of CSV file,Here is an example of a data line in a POI CSV file that you can load into a Garmin GPS unit and display associated with a name and position The format for a line of data is Longitude, Latitude, Name, Description, as in this example: A spreadsheet program like Excel or OpenOffice’s Calc.A dedicated CSV editor, like the freeware program CSVed.A plain text editor (like Notepad), or word processor (for the latter, be sure to save it in plain text format).This the best format for POI data, since you can create and manipulate it a number of ways: The Garmin POILoader software, currently the only way to directly upload POIs to compatible Garmin units, can accept POI data in two different formats, each with advantages and disadvantages. In the above example, the second set of “w”s is too long to fit on the line, so the final “w” wraps over to the next line since there’s a maximum of 4 lines of “Description” text, the final set of 17 “w”s doesn’t show up. If there is no available “next display line”, the additional text characters will be truncated on the GPS display. If a single line of text exceeds the total display length, it will wrap the remaining characters over to the next display line by themselves. Here’s a POI display for a dataset where the “Description” data has one set of 48 “i”s in a row, one set of 16 “w”s in a row, and then two sets of 17 “w”s in a row. For capital letters, the corresponding numbers are 29 “I”s on a single line, but only 18 “W”s. For the widest small letter, “w”, only 16 of those will fit on a single. Different characters take up different widths on the display, and so the number of characters that will fit on a single line will depend on the total width of the set of characters.įor example, you can fit 48 of the letter “i”, the thinnest small letter on a Garmin, onto a single display line of text in a POI data screen. That’s not really correct the Garmin GPS unit will display characters until they fill up a display line of text, and then wrap them around to the next line if they exceed it. Some websites state that the maximum name length is 44 characters in total, and the maximum description length is 88 characters. : The newer Colorado/Oregon/Dakota GPS units can store and display more data see this Oregon Wiki page for more information.
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This post will show how to create a POI datafile that can be uploaded into a Garmin GPSr.Įach POI can have up to four different sets of data: In the first post of this series, I compared the features of custom POIs (Points Of Interest) and waypoints for a Garmin handheld GPS unit (like my 60Cx).
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