Andre, I don't know about the GPS III but here is how I get points from my Garmin 12 into Mapinfo.
Buy the serial connector from Ron Wolfe in CA for $20 or buy the kit for $12 and solder it yourself> www.gpscables.com Download the Freeware program Waypoint+ from http://www.tapr.org/~kh2z/Waypoint/ Install Waypoint+, connect the serial cable between your computer and Garmin and download the waypoints, tracks and routes. Note: The Garmin 12 will only download in decimal degrees, WGS 84. Using the waypoints in MI is very straight forward: In Waypoints+, save the waypoints as text, comma delimited. Open this in Wordpad change the first line to: a,b,c,lat,lon,f, In MI, File>Open Table as Delimited ASCII text; delimited by commas and check the first line as column titles. Then from Table> Create Points, use lon for x and lat for y and set the projection as Longitude/Latitude with Category Member as Longitude/Latitude (WGS 84). To use the track created by the Garmin, it takes a little more work. Save the track data in Waypoint+ as comma delimited text. Use Excel to clean it up so you have only two columns of data, lon and lat. Longitude must be in the first column, followed by latitude. Save this as a tab delimited text file. Open the lon/lat text file in Wordpad and edit it so it is similar to the following: Version 300 Charset "WindowsLatin1" Delimiter "," CoordSys Earth Projection 1, 104 Columns 1 ID Integer Data Pline 5 -122.903738 43.997649 -122.904941 43.99881 -122.908293 43.996685 -122.908435 43.991754 -122.908846 43.985953 Pen (1,2,0) Note, in "Pline 5" above, change the "5" to the number of pairs of observations. This is easily determined from the Excel file. Save this as a text document named track_name.mif Create an additional text file with one line that has a zero on it and save it as track_name.mid In MI, import the track_name.mif file using Table>Import Note: I have also used the GPS Utility from England. The unrestricted version costs $40 and will save as shape or text... Jim Reed, PhD Mapping and GIS Consulting The Hydrologic Group POB 2077 Jasper, OR 97438 541-988-4332 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.epud.net/~jpreed/samplemaps.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: andre boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mapinfo-List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: MI-L GPS data download > Recently I made a long trip into Africa and recorded hundreds of waypoint > coordinates on my GPS III plus. Now I want to download these coordinates to > my PC, first of all into an EXCEL spreadsheet, but also to MapInfo. > I do possess the interface cable, but how does one actually perform the > download. > > Any suggestions? > > regards > andr� > > > from: andr� boessenkool > po box 101 - vlottenburg 7604 > south africa > tel (+27 21) 881 3188 > fax (+27 21) 881 3189 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.cabex.co.za > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
