Is there an official description of the format produced by File / Export / ... / Save as Type tab-delimited text? Some things in the file are confusing, others are obvious. I am doing this because I cannot sort the waypoints by date/time in BaseCamp (ver. 4.4.7). This option (as well as sort by distance from a point) should be added to the sort menu.
I don't know of any official Garmin format but I regularly parse the files exported by BaseCamp (csv and gpx) in order to produce reports of my own, so I know the format pretty well.
If all you want is to have a simple list of waypoint names sorted by date, one way to do it would be to import the file into excel, delete the sections not dealing with waypoints, and let excel split the data into columns. Then delete the columns you don't want and finally sort the rows.
If you need more than that I'd be happy to help by private message.
You certainly can sort waypoints by name in the data view. Click on the "Modified Date" or "Created Date" column headings.
Thanks! The secrets are (1) be in Data View, and (2) show only waypoints. Only then do you see the headings you mention. A few more things like that and maybe I'll reduce my frequency of mumbling about going back to MapSource!
Bob.
I don't know of any official Garmin format but I regularly parse the files exported by BaseCamp (csv and gpx) in order to produce reports of my own, so I know the format pretty well.
If all you want is to have a simple list of waypoint names sorted by date, one way to do it would be to import the file into excel, delete the sections not dealing with waypoints, and let excel split the data into columns. Then delete the columns you don't want and finally sort the rows.
If you need more than that I'd be happy to help by private message.
Thanks for the response. I'm somewhat of an Excel maven, and have already done all you suggested, including calculating local dates and times from the Zulu times. But the other response to my thread was what I needed -- If in Data View and viewing waypoints only, then the headers appear that can be used for the sorting I wanted to do in Excel.
