The LX8000 etc. all have rotary encoders so selecting, editing,
renaming etc. even in flight, is easy. You can have dozens of waypoint
lists in the device and just select an active one, so almost all your
requirements are met.

The problem I have found with getting lat and long through Google
Earth is when you try and export the data, either as copy and paste or
as KML files into SeeYou. Using copy and paste is slow but SeeYou
requires the fields to be entered on by one as DDD then dddd or
whatever you are using. I did not find a method of pasting directly.

The alternative is importing a CUP file. CUP is 99% excellent but the
final 1% is really at least 110% useless… it's this.

The coordinate format in a CUP file, from memory, is something like
DDMM.mmmm or DDDMMM.mmmm. The decimal point between degrees and
minutes is missing so you cannot directly use anything unless you
convert the coordinate data using a spreadsheet, or translate the KML
file using something like GPSBabel, or hand tool your own thing.

After doing all the others, I chose hand-tooling as being the best
option. I now have a list of waypoints. I can click on one and it
shows the waypoint on a map or satellite image. Up to this point, it
is similar to Google Earth. However you can click on the map view to
adjust the point to the correct location and this will update the
waypoint coord in the list. Nothing revolutionary maybe, but nothing I
have seen in SeeYou or similar.

Another thing must be mentioned and that is the CUPX format with the
included image of the waypoint in the list. Where this is a landing
strip, you can include an image directly or something with an overlay
showing the strip directions and taxiways etc. This is a huge thing at
the end of a long leg over remote terrain or when landing at a busy
place like Broken Hill in a sailplane where there is a lot of RPT
traffic.

If you're only flying local tasks perhaps this kind of thing might not
be attractive but the option of showing photographs of possible
outlanding sites might be very interesting.

D

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