Transferring Hotspots

[stmcmurray76]

Hi, I'm trying to transfer the hotspots I exported from this forum, but my HumminbirdPc program is spitting out an error. It seems to be a problem with the way the xml file is written.
How do you guys transfer your files?
I've tried GPSBabel like I've seen on many searches, but I don't think I'm setting up the options correctly.
Thanks in advance.

[Mike Carey]

Hi, I'm trying to transfer the hotspots I exported from this forum, but my HumminbirdPc program is spitting out an error. It seems to be a problem with the way the xml file is written.
How do you guys transfer your files?
I've tried GPSBabel like I've seen on many searches, but I don't think I'm setting up the options correctly.
Thanks in advance.

Are you referring to the Premium Member Hotspots? It's a .gpx file that you should be exporting to your computer and then load on your GPS unit.

[stmcmurray76]

Yes sir,I've exported the .gpx file just fine, but my HumminbirdPC program spits out an error when I try to open it. I've marked my own waypoints, which ends up being a .gpx file, and have no problems seeing them in HumminbirdPC. I've compared the 2 files, and there is a slightly different line. In the waypoints file my fish finder created, the file/lines start with </gpx>. And the file downloaded from here starts with </gpx:gpx>. The error I'm getting says something about not being able to open gpx:gpx.
I know these are simple XML files, so one could just edit the line, but with hundreds of lines, that could take a while. I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem, and how you did you solve it? Thanks

[Mike Carey]

This is definitely an Aaron question. I'll ask him to check this thread.

[stmcmurray76]

Thank you

[Aaron]

I use GSAK. Have you tried that?

http://www.gsak.net/

[stmcmurray76]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[stmcmurray76]

I've been playing with GSAK to no avail. It seems to be a pretty complicated program. I consider myself pretty tech savvy, but I just don't have the time to sit down and figure this out. Does anyone else transfer hotspots to their Humminbird? How do you guys do it? It seems pointless, I know, because I can look at the hotspots on this site and remember them, but its nice, also, to display that specific waypoint on my Humminbird and check it out. I have a Humminbird 597 ci combo. I just can't figure out how to transfer the hotspots waypoints to a format that 'HumminbirdPC' requires. As you know, HumminPC is whats used to transfer waypoints and other things to the unit. What does everyone else do?

[Mike Carey]

bummer. I assume you contacted Hummingbird to see if they had some suggestions. You can always do a screen shot of the hotspots and print out a map. That isn't ideal but it gets you in the areas that people mark. I used the Chelan hotspots to get started and then started making my own based on marking when fish were caught.

[Aaron]

In the mean time I'll see if I can't get the files to export with a single <gpx> parent node and see if that helps.

[stmcmurray76]

Thanks for your help, I've been researching the problem and haven't found much help on the matter even from Humminbird.

[Aaron]

I tried to email you a GPX file to test but your mail server returned it as spam. Let me know if you can fix that or if you have somewhere else I can send it.

[stmcmurray76]

I don't know why its returning as spam, try shanetmcmurray76@aol.com. Thanks for your help, Aaron.

[stmcmurray76]

Humminbird Error Screenshot.PNG (7.41 KiB) Viewed 3152 times

Thanks for your efforts Aaron, but I got the same error with the test file you sent me. I have attached the screenshot of the error.