ReDem problem

[micaelcorleone]

Howdy,
I tried to load some markers into ReDem which I set up with Google Earth and then I converted them into a .csv file with RWTools.
So when I load them into ReDem, I get a error message that there is a client overflow.

Please does anyone know what I one can do about that?

[micaelcorleone]

Could the reason be that my longitudes and latitudes are displayed this way "-120.9779390116995,40.0337824528462,NoName" in the .csv file?
Maybe ReDem can only read it when it is so: "-120,9779390116995.40,0337824528462,NoName"

Must I delete the ",NoName" in the end? What kind of markers must I use: named or seriesmarkers?

Come on anyone. I know some of you have experience with ReDem:

[Toripony]

I just ran (tried) a markers file conversion myself the other day and everything I tried failed, too. I ended up spending 2 hours editing the file manually (which also required MS Excel). Let me look at this some more and see if I can figure out what's wrong. I suspect something has changed in the file created by Google and RWT can no longer decipher it, but that's just a guess. We'll get Mike in on this if we need to; he'll want to know.

Tori

[micaelcorleone]

I just ran (tried) a markers file conversion myself the other day and everything I tried failed, too. I ended up spending 2 hours editing the file manually (which also required MS Excel). Let me look at this some more and see if I can figure out what's wrong. I suspect something has changed in the file created by Google and RWT can no longer decipher it, but that's just a guess. We'll get Mike in on this if we need to; he'll want to know.

Tori

I thank you very very much. Finally someone who even answers.
I already made 2 posts in the zugware forums, but it seems he hasn't looked in there for months.

[Toripony]

I think I misunderstood.... so you got your file out of RWTools, ok? That is where I was hitting an error.

[micaelcorleone]

This is the marker .csv file I'm using. I manually interchanged all points and commas because ReDem seems to need it that way.

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[micaelcorleone]

I think I misunderstood.... so you got your file out of RWTools, ok? That is where I was hitting an error.

Yeah I first created that .kml file out of Google Earth and then converted it to .csv with RWTools.

[Toripony]

No, undo that. The proper format:

-80.26287963062823,37.75006979057493,Untitled_Placemark


If there is ANY other text in your csv file besides these position lines delete it (no header or footer text allowed)

[micaelcorleone]

Are you sure with the points and commas because in the "1-RouteStart" fields of ReDem it only accepts "00,000" longitudes and latitudes?

[micaelcorleone]

If I use these, ReDem also fails:

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[Toripony]

This works for me...

ReDem SS.jpg

[micaelcorleone]

I always get this message:

[micaelcorleone]

pauls a member on the uktrainsim forums answered, but I don't understand it completely:

"Hi,

Google Earth doesn't like your format either. If you are dealing with Latitude and Longitude - the convention is to state Latitude first. So -120.9779390116995 would have no meaning since the biggest latitude is 90 degrees North (+90) or 90 degrees South (-90) - If you state your numbers the other way around you end up in North America 40, -120 (40N 120W ) . So my guess is that the overlflow thing is because the Latitude number is greater than -90.
Please note that RW state Lat / Lon in the incorrect manner.

If you are dealing with a UTM projection then you are dealing with Eastings and Northings - the convention here is that Longitude in metres is stated first. You must also know which UTM zone you are in for this format to make any sense.
If you look in a RW terrain BIN file you will see that co-ordinates are in UTM format and the zone is stated.

A bit confusing but I hope this helps you figure out what to do.

Cheers
Paul"

[micaelcorleone]

I think I found out what was causing the problem.
As I'm German, my PC Format was set to Deutsch (Deutschland).
I changed it to English (USA) and, surprise, I can load the markers into ReDem.
I think this was causing the point and comma interchange and this was also the problem that made ReDem fail all the time.

[Toripony]

Yayy! I was about to post that I ran your csv file with no errors.

Good luck!