Load Outlook Contacts to TomTom POI's?

[dempsey]

Anyone know how to download selected Microsoft Outlook Contact records as TomTom POI's?

[devolutional]

There's no direct way of doing this, without using third party software (most of which is free.)

You need to export the outlook contacts to a .csv file (tabled spreadsheet data) which is one of the only export formats that is generic enough to work with elsewhere... You now need to geocode these results into latitude/longitude etc.

Google for PoiEdit and GeePeeEx Editor, and also "Outlook Contacts to POI" for a few other forums that go into this in more detail.

I haven't done any of this myself, but hopefully this will point you in the right direction.

Until then one can only hope for Microsoft to release a suitable export format/built in geocode addon!

[dempsey]

Thanks very much; I'll work on your suggestions.

[paul.deitch]

Ought to be pretty simple to do in Outlook. Create user defined field for the Contacts and fill with a standard format eg N or + for north and S or - for south, then a comma, then ditto for East and West, then comma and name/comment.
Either export as mentioned above to csv or write a very small piece of vba code to write them to the well known standard formats for most gps units.
And no I'm not volunteering!