Do people find bus stops useful as pois? I've thought of making some. mostly bus stops right now because they can e hard to find also, a question on waypoints, do I have tohave a route created to use a waypoint? I was thinking of putting one a cross the street from where i get dropped off coming home from work because across the street they treat as a courtesy stop and of course no one says which side we are on, so I wanted to know if i can mark it not being in a route. i have been fine so far just tracking where the bus is going not being in a route. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:11 AM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Converting files for POI's
Actually Steve, sending Sendero this file as is will work fine for us to add it to the User collective pois for Transit bus stops without any conversions.But if you want to know how to do this you do the following. Take the whole # and that is your degrees. Take the decimal # and multiply it by 60. Then Take the whole # and that is your minutes. Then take the remainder decimal # and multiply that by 60. Then that whole decimal number is your seconds.If the Latitude has a negative in it then you are in the Southern Hemisphere. If the Longitude has a negative in it then you are in the Western Hemisphere.Now this all assumes the decimal lat/lon is in the datum WGS84, if its in any other datum it must be converted to WGS84 beforehand otherwise it won't match up with the BrailleNote.Hope this helps Charles At 08:56 AM 7/23/2008, you wrote:Any idea on how to convert a file with GPS locations that I got from mytransit company that are set in degrees and then a long decimal string intothe degrees with minutes and seconds that you guys need for the Poi's? Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. Steve Lansing, MiCharles M. La Pierre CTO Sendero Group"The GPS company." Distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor Stream, Voice Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID Mate1-888-757-6810 Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" W
