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Is there any way to import or export custom locations? It would be really nice to be able to edit these elsewhere and import them.

Love all the new features in 7. Well done everyone!

Thanks,

Paul

Thanks Walter,

That would be great. If those could be loaded as custom locations, it would work perfectly. The use case for me is that I'm planning on flying LA to Oshkosh via Route 66 to Chicago. Just want to be able to load a bunch of town and intersection custom locations along the road that are not part of the active flight plan, but are just there for reference.

(Another option would be to use the same file format for custom locations as for saved routes. The saved routes file format is elegant, compact and wonderfully simple to just load with airports, waypoints, altitudes, etc directly without going through the interface. :-) )

Fellow geek, this is a bin-serialized collection of .NET objects - so correct, not a standard format of any sort. And the serialization process itself is not standard as we used something that is both extremely fast and slightly forward/backward compatible, unlike typical BIN serialized objects. So describing the structure wouldn't be easy. Further, if you have more than a hand full of custom locations they are split into a quad tree structure for fast lat/lon range lookups. The QuadTrees class is a nested recursive class, that is also difficult to describe in binary terms. So long story short...no, can't do that.