I found a copy of the KML file for National Trust of Scotland sites I was looking for, and found that BaseCamp would read that quite nicely, and it actually had links to the National Trust web pages for the property descriptions. I exported to CSV (from BaseCamp since Google Earth doesn't do CSV), and then used the Import from Text file to pull the points in. What I found is that the SatNav POI file available from Historical Scotland was a rather stripped down POI file in CSV format, which will load into the GPS with POILoader, but won't import into either BaseCamp or Google Earth. Since I want to create sequential "codes" for the points I'm adding, I used what appears to be a retired or abandoned macro from Tigerz and tweaked it just a little to handle the limited file. The ugly part is, what winds up in which column is going to be anyone's guess, making a macro to read "a CSV file" all but useless. If you want 5 ONLY ways to do something, just ask 5 programmers. (or engineers).
I'm combining some data files to get an accumulation of sites in Scotland that we can view in Google Earth, and plan a vacation around that data, and then, I'll add geocaches to it later when I know where I'll be (after we thin out some of the sites). This has proven challenging, but fun. I imported the CSV generated above, then wrote a little macro to make the added points match the codes of the first lot that I imported. Lookin good now. 400+ sites to look at and filter out now. The advantage of looking at it with Google Earth is we won't drive miles out of our way to see something that may just be a pile of rubble where something used to be, unless that's exactly what we want to see for a reason.
Just a slightly different use for GSAK, sort of like waymarking.
I'm combining some data files to get an accumulation of sites in Scotland that we can view in Google Earth, and plan a vacation around that data, and then, I'll add geocaches to it later when I know where I'll be (after we thin out some of the sites). This has proven challenging, but fun. I imported the CSV generated above, then wrote a little macro to make the added points match the codes of the first lot that I imported. Lookin good now. 400+ sites to look at and filter out now. The advantage of looking at it with Google Earth is we won't drive miles out of our way to see something that may just be a pile of rubble where something used to be, unless that's exactly what we want to see for a reason.
Just a slightly different use for GSAK, sort of like waymarking.
