![]() ![]() The standard default POI file currently on your Garmin GPS will be erased by this process, but there are ways around this that I’ll cover in an upcoming post. Select the folder that contains the CSV POI file you want to upload (it must have the. Once you’ve created the CSV file, use Garmin’s POILoader to upload it into your GPS: 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:
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