PathAway Data Converter


CAL FILE Format

In place of command line parameters, or DLL function parameters, the configuration
of the file to import or export can be specified in a file of the same name with a .cal
extension. See samplePts.csv and samplePts.cal for an example.

Command Line Parameters:
PWDBConvert [ImportFileName],[ExportFileName],[CalFileName]

The [CalFileName] can be omitted if it is the same name as the import file name. The software will automatically look for a .cal file with the same name.

FormatTitle=[Any descriptive string]
Ext=[Default File Extension, no period]
Source=
[Delimited], [Comma], [Tab], [Garmin], [Fixed],[KML],[GPX],[LOC]
FieldCount=[# fields in CSV Record]
FieldLen=
[fixed field length of each field in order. Comma delimited ie. 4,10, 20,16]
Delimited=[Delimited format character] use \ for control characters. ie. \t for tab
Latitude=
[field position]
Longitude=
[field position]
Elevation=
[field position]
Time=
[field position]
Name=
[field position]
Icon=
[field position] or [iconDBname:icon (can use same icon for all points)]
Desc=
[field position]
LocFormat=
[CompressedStr], [Degrees], [Numeric], [DegNoSpace],
PalmDBType=
[Point], [Route], [Track], [Route2], [Track2]
DefaultIcon=1..4 or [iconDBname:icon]
Header=
[Quoted multi-line string containing the header of the output file]

PalmDBType Parameters

Point: WayPoint database type
Route: Route Database Type
Track: Tack Log Database Type
Route2: PathAway version 2 Route database
Track2: PathAway version 2 Track database

LocFormat Parameters

Degrees: [NS]dd mm.##, [EW]dd mm.##, (where ## is decimal minutes), or,
[NS]dd mm ss.##, [EW]dd mm ss.##, (where ## is decimal seconds)
DegNoSpace: [NS]ddmm.ss, [EW]dddmm.ss
Numeric: d.nnnnnn, where positive values are northern and eastern hemispheres
CompressedStr: 6 character degrees latitude: ddmmss, 7 character degrees longitude:. dddmmss (Works for North-Western Hemisphere only)