Problems with DIY POI Files

[Jörgen]

Hi,
I can't get the POIs displayed from a self-made POI file.

I generated a CSV file like this:

51.225800,6.615499,"Am Schulzentrum Kaarst","Forum"

Longitude, Latitude, “POI Name”, “Description (optional)”

Made sure that all information is separated by a comma.

I can import the file in MRA, choose a symbol, and when activated, nothing is displayed.

What is wrong?

[Herman Veldhuizen]

when I tried it I had to zoom in on the map to see them.

[Jörgen]

@Herman-Veldhuizen said in Problems with DIY POI Files:

when I tried it I had to zoom in on the map to see them.

I know this. For control, I activated other POIs, to see the min. zoom factor.

[Jörgen]

Maybe someone with success, can sent me a csv file for testing.

[Mzokk]

I have one for Irish Photo Rally waypoints but I don't have enough privileges to upload it here.

[Con Hennekens]

@Jörgen, Found it!
You need to swap lat/lon
The POI actually do import, on the other side of the globe...
(actually they don't, they are not valid coordinates)
Try this:

6.615499,51.225800,"Am Schulzentrum Kaarst","Forum"

[Jörgen]

Hi Con, you're a genius—how did you figure that out?
I never would have guessed that.
Why “Latitude, Longitude” in MRA?
That's a bug in MRA, right?
Google uses that format too—“Longitude, Latitude”

By the way, my POIs where in the Arabian Sea, just off the coast of Somalia.
I would never have found that.

[BertM]

This is the case already for a long time...
It took me also some time to figure that one out.
In my POI conversion tool I even made a special "MRA CSV export" to deal with this.
I think it is by design as the GPX export is also the same

[Corjan Meijerink]

Latitude / Longitude is the human friendly way.
Longitude / Latitude is the mathematically correct way.

This isn't a bug. It's a poor design choice perhaps from very long ago.
But changing that now will cause more hassle than leaving it as is.