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G7TO Icon News Flash to Version 302
from : Jack Yeazel

(Wed) 05-November-97

Just when you thought all bases were covered, along comes the GPS III with 45 Symbols! So, G7TO has once again been upgraded to keep up with the designers at Garmin. Now comes Version 302 which "matches" these 45 Symbols with Street Atlas (SA) 4 & 5's 57 icons for down/uploading and display.

Get the latest versions and stay up to date at :

http://www.proaxis.com/~crh/gps/g7to/g7to.htm
! new URL !

G7TO302 is a (free) DOS program by Ron Henderson ( crh@proaxis.com ) The program will download in one operation from the Garmin receivers, waypoints, routes, proximity points, tracks, and symbols (if they exist) to Street Atlas files in all the various ways Street Atlas can present these data.

NOTE : Use .SA3, .SA4, or .SA5 extenders depending on your version of Street Atlas.

Consider that the following "tutorial" (single) command line:

will input (-i) from the Garmin receivers (g45) Waypoints (w), Proximity Waypoints (x), Tracks (t), and Routes (r). Then will output this data (-o) to an SA3/4/5 file, COMBINE.SA5, and an ASCII file (-a), COMBINE.TXT. The SA* file will show the Waypoints with their names only (-q7); will fill (-p fy) the Proximity areas (a) with yellow (-p ayellow) 'highlighter'(-p s*h); show the Active Route 00 as the SA4-type route without Routepoint names (-r0wn); show all other Routes (1-19) as medium thickness (-r tm) red (-r cred) 'highlighter' lines (-r s*h) without Routepoint names (-rwn); show the Tracks as blue lines (-t cblue), and convert the Waypoint default square symbols to dots (-w d12). In the COMBINE.TXT file, Track and Route distances (-d) are summed.

The order of commands is not important. Refer to the documentation to display MORE of the Garmin data than the above command line invokes.

NOTE : Route 00, which is displayed as an SA-type route, is the FIRST route created in the G-III and not the "Active" Route as in the other Garmin models...

G7TO will upload in one operation all the data in COMBINE.TXT to the Garmins with :

and retain the waypoint comment creation dates. (COMBINE.SA* files can also be used, but the comment creation dates are lost.) All track time-stamps are reset by Garmin receiver to 0 hms. G7TO converts any 0 hms time to PC time in the downloaded file.

An added feature to this version of G7TO is the ability to convert very large track .TXT files (up to 32,767 trackpoints) to an SA file... Long tracks can be made by adding several track.txt files together with the DOS COPY command... (These can ALSO contain Waypoints and Routes)... The command line for a "long_track" is:

(The default without (-f 0) is 4,096 trackpoints.)

NOTES : The symbols of the G-II+ aren't exactly duplicated by the symbols available in SA, but the correspondence is "recognizable". The first number after the first ";" in the "W" records is the SA Icon number, and the number after the second ";" is the "Style" of Garmin display on the map page -all of which can be edited...

You have complete control as to how any SA line LOOKS... It can be solid, or 'highlighter', and be any SA color or thickness. Routepoints can have Route No., names, comments, or none. Waypoints can have names with or without comments. SA4/5 Tracks are now lines instead of dots; SA3 tracks remain dots.

In addition to the above, G7TO will read and write route files for Navigate.exe. Navigate.exe uses the file name routes.clg to store the route data. G7TO Version 3.02 also adds the capability to read and write files for use with WSII, the waypoint, icon, route and track upload/download program for the Lowrance GlobalMap Sport from Lowrance.

G7TO supports the Waypoint, Route and Icon data, but does not support the track data. This interface to WSII has been tested with GMS version 2.1 and WSII version 1.1 for Windows 95. It has not been tested with other GMS units or other versions of WSII.

G7TO will output/input Navigate.exe routes.clg routes files; GarDown7 raw format; Proj format; and Garmin64 format.

For input, GarDown7, Proj and Garmin64 are all read as text files. If the input file is Garmin64 or Proj format only the Track and Waypoint records are processed.

A new support is for Fugawi input/output suffix definitions : The suffix FWP, i.e. fname.fwp, will read/write the file as if it is a waypoint file exported from fugawi. The suffix FTR, i.e. fname.ftr, will read/write the file as if it is a track file to be read by fugawi; however, the New Track information is not recorded in Fugawi track files.

Jack Yeazel

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