GPS kayaking locations (Playak)

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Adrians
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GPS kayaking locations (Playak)

Post by Adrians » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:54 pm

I saw the below post on Playak and its not a bad system at all.... have a read and see what you hink.

Playak wrote:Although it seems that nobody cares about this subject, I keep working on it. I assume people just don't know what they're missing. Who was it again that said something like: "You cannot measure the need for a bridge by counting the people swimming across the river."? Similar with this subject: I saw for myself how useful this can be and trust that others will discover the same thing one day.

Right, to business:

You can now download all info from the Playak map on your GPS. Excluded from this are gauges, users, galleries and graffiti (execption: when you're logged in and download the GPS, your own map graffiti is included). This leaves some 20.000 GPS points worldwide. I programmed 2 new features today:

1. Download either as a CSV file, which can be used by Garmin devices and some others, or as an ov2 file, which is the POI format used by TomTom, or by numerous applications that support the GPX format.
2. You can now download separate files for each continent. The worldwide file is 1MB large, and most of the points are in North America and Europe, so if you are only interested in an other continent, you can save some space on your GPS flash card this way.

So here are the links:

Garmin:
Worldwide: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=csv
Americas: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=csv& ... t=americas
Europe: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=csv&continent=europe
Asia: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=csv&continent=asia
Africa: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=csv&continent=africa
Oceania: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=csv& ... nt=oceania

TomTom:
Worldwide: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=ov2
Americas: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=ov2& ... t=americas
Europe: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=ov2&continent=europe
Asia: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=ov2&continent=asia
Africa: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=ov2&continent=africa
Oceania: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=ov2& ... nt=oceania

GPX:
Worldwide: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=gpx
Americas: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=gpx& ... t=americas
Europe: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=gpx&continent=europe
Asia: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=gpx&continent=asia
Africa: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=gpx&continent=africa
Oceania: http://playak.com/map.csv.php?mode=gpx& ... nt=oceania

Thumbnail (works on Tomtom - haven't tested on other devices):
http://playak.com/map.csv.php?func=bmp

To add spots to the GPS download, just add them to http://playak.com/map.php ....

I'd be happy to hear about if and how this works for non-Tomtom devices, as I cannot test those myself (out of my budget )

Enjoy,
Jeroen

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Re: GPS kayaking locations (Playak)

Post by Caitríona » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:54 pm

I recently bought a Garmin sat nav and I'm wondering how I download those files to my sat nav exactly?

When I clicked on the link the files opened up in another window but it doesn't have appeared to have saved to the sat nav.

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Re: GPS kayaking locations (Playak)

Post by Brian » Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:40 pm

you need to get your hands on a data cable to hook it up to your pc.
heres a nifty little program called gpsbabel thats useful for importing/exporting coordinates.

they are such a useful river tool

Caitríona
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Re: GPS kayaking locations (Playak)

Post by Caitríona » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:58 am

Brian wrote:you need to get your hands on a data cable to hook it up to your pc.
heres a nifty little program called gpsbabel thats useful for importing/exporting coordinates.

they are such a useful river tool
I got one of those with it alright,it was connected earlier on when I was trying to download those co-ordinates.

How do I get that program?

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Re: GPS kayaking locations (Playak)

Post by tiernan » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:03 pm


Caitríona
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Re: GPS kayaking locations (Playak)

Post by Caitríona » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:15 pm

Cheers Tiernan!

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Re: GPS kayaking locations - Kerry

Post by Seanie » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:34 pm

I'm going to give this ago on IWW. But first I'm going to just start small and do West Cork and Kerry. It'll be handy for folks travelling there this new years.

If ye know of any GPS locations please post them up here. We'll build out the system as we go along.

Thanks Seanie

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