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"Sometimes you have to hunker down and take it like a jackass in a hailstorm"....     Lyndon Johnson

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"Well........If it ain't broke, it just ain't broke yet... "    -myself

war eagle (6/28/2009)

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Redlegs, hope I'm not the bearer of bad news, but if converting those numbers into a google earth database is your intention you might have been beat to the punch. Check out this website if you're not familiar: EARTHNC.COM It's a really neat deal and you can also overlay nautical charts, reefs, debris, etc. You can also convert these numbers and download them to your gps through their program. Pretty cool. If that's what you were up to hopefully it'll save you some time. Otherwise, please disregard and I'll go back to lurking.

War Eagle, I've been converting them for a while for my own use. Got the idea several years ago when I saw what Destin Sharks did with google earth. After that, I went around collecting various public sources for info and converting them. Is not bursting my bubble, since I've had a process to convert them fairly easily for a number of years. I keep numbers for Maine all the way thru Texas as well as the Shipwreck database.

My only intention here is sharing them with the other members of the forum (at least the public sites), in a few common formats, and pertaining to the area. That way everyone gets a chance at having a few public numbers without any cost.

I've already invested (personally) in a GPS conversion utility that converts to/from just about anything/any format, so I could write the files to my C80.

Ok, I'm rambling since the caffeine has kicked in. Summary: not bursting my bubble; just sharing what I have with all who want or don't want. Figure it's good for those that don't have the public numbers loaded, or need a start.

/r Steve

Not sure if you are referring to the MBT numbers or not, but they are public. MBT has a web page that allows anyone to add numbers to it and then the entire list is viewable on the web site. Some of them may have started out as "private" but once a diver or fisherman posted the numbers into MBT's list: it's not private any more (IMHO).

The other list (and the ones I'll be posting soon), all come from public "viewable" on the web lists (county and state publications).  All I've done is convert them from PDF (or whatever format) into google earth datafiles and/or CSV (Excel files).

/r Steve

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Their "Writer" module will open, edit, and save .CSV files (as well as most Microsoft Office files types).

Attached files are pubic reefs and wrecks converted to excel spreadsheets and google earth data files. No secret spots, just the facts.

These are the publiushed numbers from the State of Florida Artificial Reef List Dec 2008:

Save each of the files and remove the .doc off the end.

CSV files will open in Microsoft Excel

KML files will open in/google earth

To save to your pc, right mouse click the file, choose "save target as", rename removing the ".doc"

Enjoy

	Post Attachments
	StateofFlorida ARL Dec242008.csv.doc (211 views, 283.92 KB) StateofFlorida ARL Dec242008.kml.doc (137 views, 628.56 KB)

Mapsource will read in .gpx, .gbd, .loc, or .mps

Probably best to try and convert to gpx which is a good standard gps exchange format

I agree. All  I did was convert to a usable format without altering any of their numbers. Did the same for the state and county pubs. I do like to load them in and check them out when in the area of something else or on a "looking around" trip. Not all of them are loran conversions, have found a few here and there.

I don't think I can do that ! I'm too computer dumb

If anyone converts them to garmin mapsource files.........

I sure would like to get a copy of the file !

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http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/

Pretty self-explanatory once you navigate to the page.  Another good use of this site is to convert numbers from your GPS unit to a better editing platform (i.e. Google Earth).  Anytime I'm out and get some new numbers I'll pull my chip and convert the file to .kml play around with it (adding descriptions and such) then convert it back and put it back in my unit.  Very easy to convert any file to the type of unit you use.

I bought the gpsutil a long while ago (lazy fisherman) and as long as you have a license: you get updates. The author spends alot of time updating and actually responds to emails. Works his butt off for what I paid him lol.

Google earth is a wonderful "visual" tool. I certainly like being able to "see" where the site(s) lie and use it to plan routes as well as check out things when I'm in an area (i.e. unknowns).

If one plays with the "google earth community" long enough, you can turn on seeing where all these sites are (reef projects, etc).

Errrr, who wants the files in garmin or mapsource format? Mighrt be able to do that when I get some free time.