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Last page bookmark trick ?
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...arth-36431-999
That gets you to page 999 .. if that does not exist (and it probably won't) it gets you to the 'last page'
You'll need to manually edit your bookmark to store it for other threads, for this thread you might be able to save the above link before clicking it?
Works for Firefox (might keep the Lnix users happy?)
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Thanks for the work on this Ulrich.
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Hello everybody,
Thanks a lot for your great effort Ullrich. I love the idea of using this. But I do not know how...
I have zumo 550.
I deleted the gpsmapprom of the gps and replaced it by T4A and named it gpsmapprom
I put also osm on a sd card that I named gpsmapsupp.
I hope this is working, i am not sure...
Now I downloaded all your waypoints and put them in a map called 'garmin' on the sd card. I do not know if the gps is finding the points or not. I even got the impression that the gps is finding less points then before. It looks like he deleted a lot of points. How can I check this?
Is there a point that is typically Ullrich alike?
or typically osm?
or typically T4A?
On this way I can check everything,
thanks a lot
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I really think the points are NOT installed on my gps. I have found anything.
For the moment I am in sudan and te closes point of interest I can find on my gps is 300 km away...
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If you have the embassies WAYPOINTS then there are a number of them in Khartoum Sudan;
Egypt
Germany
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Ethiopia
If you have them on your GPS then you have the embassy.gpx on it.
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Maps;
T4A does not have much in northern africa ... it does have more in the south. I don't (yet) have OSM for africa so cannot comment, but I'd not expect much. These both depend on people contribution their tracks to get data on them, more people with gps = more roads, less people with gps = less roads.
If you contribute your tracks to OSM then the next person will have those roads.
If you contribute your waypoints to OSM then the next person will have them. You can also contribute them to Ullrich too.
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Hi,
When I put the SD card in my pc, it shows all the gpx and kml file of Ullrich. All of them. But I do not know how I can check on my gps if those files are on it or not.
I checked for the embassys now and have not found any in khartoum... ;-(
What did I do wrong? I have to transfer it with basecamp? I do not think that is needed?
thanks for the help in advance.
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Simon,
I to have a Zumo 550 and used it extensively this year in Europe after converting it to use OSM maps. It worked absolutely fantastic, never leading me astray as was often the case with others I travelled with this year. I wanted to make sure I could realy on the zumo for navigation and for finding camp sites and other points of interest with the minimal of fuss. It did.
Now, the OSM maps have a lot of POI already in the map file, but I wanted to see if the camping POI files say from Ulrich would provide additional camp spots.
What I had to do to have the Zumo 550 know that I had extra gpx files is I had to use a small program that would take the file and convert it to the correct format for the Zumo. What Ulrich provides is the plain gpx and kml files, but your Zumo can not use the gpx file as you have in the zip file.
Give me a little while and I will fire up the other computer I used and see if I can recall the process and report back.
It is not difficult, but I also went through a similar head scratching excerise.
Just to let you know I don't use MSWindows or the Garmin programs.
I use Ubuntu on my laptops and use QLandkart to make the exact maps of what I need while on the road using the latest OSM tiles.
For the gpx to gpi converter I think the program I use is babel, which is an amazing little program that does much.
Can you let us know what you have in terms of computer OS.
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Thanks a lot for your answer.
My computer is crashed in the dessert of Jordan.
Now I am working on a computer of a fellow traveller. This is a windows 7 ultimate microsoft. For internet he uses firefox and all the rest there is not much changed of the normal ususal stuff comparing when you would buy a laptop.
In what kind of file format do I have to put it so my zumo can read it? In the past I have already put gpx filed on my garmin that he could find instead. But most of them they were also used in a route or track...
thanks for the help!
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Simon;
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I have zumo 550.
I deleted the gpsmapprom of the gps and replaced it by T4A and named it gpsmapprom
I put also osm on a sd card that I named gpsmapsupp.
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Can you explain in more detail what you mean when you say you replaced the gpsmapprom and also what you mean when you say you put osm on the sd card.
Also, can you tell me exactly what is is on the Zumo itself under the 'GARMIN' folder, what have you changed and tell me if the unit is working ok for navigation as of right now.
Right, I have my little laptop up and going and can see the program I used is 'Gebabbel', it is a graphical front end for the actual program babbel which does the converting.
My understanding is that the Zumo will not read the gpx file directly as a POI file, it may read it as a gpx file which really is for storing tracks and routes not POI. So you need to convert the file to the gpi format. As soon as I did that the zumo would find the POI in the menu called 'Extras'.
Maybe I can convert the file you want here in sunny Tasmania and make it available to you via dropbox? If this is an idea then I need to know exactly what file you want. Maybe give me a URL to it if you have.
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Hi Rockwallaby,
That would be awesome!!! We are now in Sudan and untill now we used the gps a lot more than we ever tought of using it in the beginning. That is the reason why I started searching for more tracks, waypoints etc on the internet. Then I found the file of Ullrich and started trying to download it.
So when I have a look to the files of Ullrich I am interested in everything of Africa and especially the more southern countries like following: sudan, ethiopia, kenia, uganda, tanzania, zambia, zimbabwe, botswana, namibia, south africa.
Is it possible for you to help me out with this?
The T4A is bought on a SD card. There was still a lot of space available so I downloaded the OSM maps from the internet and installed it on the sd card as supp. Then I deleted the gpsmapprom that was originally on the gps and I copied the T4A to the garmin itself and renamed it to gpsmapprom. When I go to map info on the gps I can choose now which kind of map I want to work with. the T4A or the OSM. He recognises both of them.
To navigate he does not find any streets or something, but when I put coordinates or waypoints everything goes fine with the osm. Untill now I did not try it yet with the T4A.
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Ok, understood.
Yes, I can help you with this.
In a moment I will send you a PM which will contain a link to a Dropbox folder I have just set up where you can store and retreive files.
I'll give you some other details as well in that PM.
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Simon,
I have done a gpx to gpi conversion for Sudan as I believe you mentioned you are currently in Sudan and you could put this file into the Zumo main memory under "/GARMIN/GPX" folder. Then when you power up the Zumo and go into the menu and find 'Extras' you should then see the Sudan POI file to use.
I have shifted the dropbox folder to a slightly different location where you will see two files, one is the original Sudan.gpx and the other is the converted Sudan.gpi format for the Zumo.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3bygezmypugfzgv/0HB3_t3vT1
Let me know via email how you proceed with this.
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EDIT: oops, the file should go into the "/GARMIN/POI" folder of your Zumo, not the GPX.
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Hi all,
thanks for more than 30.000 views! 
Happy travelling, merry christmas and a happy new year.
Ulrich
P.S.: Maybe an update is coming soon.
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Ulrich,
It would be so great if you were able to rename your files to be in English.
I guess there will be a far greater number of English speaking users that come here and make use of the KML/GPX files.
You, yourself speak English on this thread.
I have renamed quite a number of them a few times now for other people. Some of the country names just don't display correctly on non German computers and then some countries are spelt altogether differently.
For example, the file camping welt, a lot of people would wonder what on Earth is welt. Also to find the country of Chad, you find it at Tchad, I think?
Also, many people wish to use the Garmin GPI format, but need to somehow do a conversion which is often difficult for them to do. Again, it would wonderful to have this format too as part of the files.
I hope you will consider my suggestion as worthwhile and do before the next update, or maybe this will be part of the next update.
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Hello Folks,
especially done translation to English for all English speaking friends.
New: African airfields, could be someone is interested.
Camping-NP-WH-Embassy-Air-EN.zip, Google-Earth-KML + GPX - ZIP, 8995 kb KB ----------------> <------------ press for download the ZIP-Icon
When You unzip the file You will get an directory with subdirectories. So please, unzip all before deleting what is not usefull for You.
And, if someone needs other formats, one post before Bertrand writes how to translate the files. (If someone would make the work for other formats, pleas sent me, I will include them). Sorry, but my COPD takes my power down for doing it by myself.
By the way, who founds a mistake: "That's a present and You can keep him*"
Allways happy and save travelling
Ulrich
*Or sent me an PN for throw him away. 
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