POI conversion

Check out the site below. This program actually edits and converts gpx, cvs and kml files.

http://geepeeex.googlepages.com/home

The POI editor isn't too versitile. It only takes a select few types of files as an input and only outputs .mgln.

Where did you get the .poi file in the first place?

P.S. Do a search here for Magellan POI editor or Maestro POI editor. Some good posts should show up.

Hi guys,

Thanks for your help. I got the POI (6 m POIs) from Rapidshare. Here is the link to the website where I found the link.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=66&thread...

The message says there's 2 files, but after I unzipped them, I found out that the second file is empty.

Thanks a lot and have a good one

Magellan Maestro 3225 North America.

Hi,

Thanks for your help. Just checked the website. That program is Garmin only. I have a Maestro 3225.

Well then you did something wrong or don't understand how the process works. You start out with 2 files but end up with only one.....after combining the two together and then unzipping.
Read the instructions again....very carefully.

And then, no, the POI editor won't read a .poi file. It is in a proprietary format that they don't want you to be able to read.

The converter program has it's primary purpose with Garmin's but if it is capable of outputing a .csv file then it is potentially useful no matter what brand of GPS you have.

Nice. good to know.

You can do this with EXCEL. Open the MGLN file with the Magellan POI Editor. Highlight the data you want, copy and paste it into an EXCEL worksheet. You can then save it in any of the supported formats.

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Good reminder of how handy cut and paste IS but that's not the question he was asking. He is wanting to open a .POI file.......a file who's name actually ends in .POI.

Try GPS Babel.

http://www.gpsbabel.org/