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I've go a CSV file for some POIs that include commas in their names:
1.50000,44.00000,"HELLO, WORLD"
I want to create an OV2 file that preserves the POI names with the commas but how do I do it? If I use to CSV to OV2 converter it strips out everything and, for the above example, the POI ends up just being called "HELLO"

Any suggestions?





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Hi

True, our web based POI Editor and tools strip commas from descriptions. There are a few good reasons to do that, but many good reasons to keep commas as well.

A few facts:
- We are the first website to publish web based POI Editor and POI editing tools for many GPS brands (including TomTom),
- our first POI Edit script was published more than 10 years ago, (including the CSV to OV2 for TomTom tool)
- millions of visitors and members used our web based POI Editor and tools,
- trillions of POIs were created, edited and exported using our web based POI tools
- and you are the first one to ask commas to be preserved.

As a public demand driven group, I can not ask our R&D to change our tools and scripts unless there is a good reason. You may ask Tomtom support if they have any "better" way to convert CSV to OV2 (with commas).

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The question isn't critical or disparaging... - the response assumes a very defensive position to a simple request for suggestions!





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Thanks Mark. Please don't be offended - I was only asking to see if I could find a work around or was doing something wrong.





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All is good maw43. No reason to be offended. I was just surprised that we had no similar requests before, and that I had a few minutes to respond to a post.
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