'Converting Data Formats' Category

• Here’s How to Transfer Excel Fishing Waypoints to a Lowrance GPS in USR Format

  

  Ben C. needs help converting offshore and deep-sea fishing spots from an Excel spreadsheet into GPS coordinates he can convert to a .USR data file for his Lowrance GPS. Here’s how to import, map, and download the Excel data to his GPS using ExpertGPS.

  
  

  July 22nd, 2009

• How to Convert Google Earth KML to ArcMap SHP?

  

  James asks: “How do I convert KML (from Google Earth) to SHP (in ArcMap)?” ExpertGPS author Dan Foster shows how to import KML files into ExpertGPS Pro, and then export them in shapefile format to ArcMap in UTM, US State Plane, or other projections.

  
  

  July 10th, 2009

• Exporting parcel outlines to AutoCAD DXF

  

  Steve K. writes: “I’m using your trial software to see if it’s right for me. I’m an architect and I need the ability to export to AutoCAD. As an experiment, I drew the metes and bounds of a particular parcel over the aerial photo map that loads automatically in the trial version. I did this [...]

  
  

  July 10th, 2009

• How to Send Cadastral Property Boundaries to your GPS

  

  Ray K. asks: “I have downloaded property shape files from the Montana Cadastral mapping web site and want to place them on top of the Garmin TOPO 2008 MapSource map that in in my GPS to outline the property on the TOPO map.” Dan Foster shows how to use ExpertGPS Pro to import cadastral [...]

  
  

  July 10th, 2009

• Converting Marine Chartplotter CSV Data to GPX

  

  Andrew H. asks: “I have track files acquired as CSV data via some custom software interfacing with a marine chart plotter that I would like to easily convert to gpx format. The important thing is I want to capture position and time, plus depth if possible, in the conversion, as I am using time code [...]

  
  

  July 9th, 2009

• How to Import GPS Waypoints into AutoCAD

  

  Wayne S. asks: “Could you please explain to me how to import waypoints from ExpertGPS into an auto cad drawing by simply pasting to coordinates if possible?” ExpertGPS author Dan Foster shows how to move points and track lines back and forth between AutoCAD and your GPS using ExpertGPS Pro.

  
  

  July 9th, 2009

• Determining the correct coordinate format for X,Y data

  

  Sometimes you’re given a set of X,Y or Easting,Northing data in an unknown coordinate format. Here are some tricks to make it easier to determine the correct coordinate format using ExpertGPS.

  
  

  July 8th, 2009

• How to Transfer GPS Data to and from an Excel Spreadsheet

  

  Jordan Z. asks: “The description says that Excel data can be uploaded to a GPS. Does that go the other way too? I’m mostly interested in buying a GPS and being able to export waypoints to my computer for use in Excel.”

  
  

  May 29th, 2009

• Convert a GIS Trail Network to GPX for GPS Download

  

  Robert G. asks: “I have a client who is interested in providing their trail network for users to download to their handheld GPS receivers. After searching extensively, I have not been able to find a solution to what I thought would be a simple process: How to convert existing GIS data into a format that [...]

  
  

  May 29th, 2009

• How to Convert Garmin MapSource GDB to ESRI SHP

  

  Drew asks: “Will your software convert from Garmin Mapsource GDB to ESRI SHP? I have a file with multiple routes in one GDB file and I need to convert them all at one time to a shapefile line dataset. This is not a ESRI geodatabase (GDB).”

  
  

  May 29th, 2009