P.O.I. (converting from Streets and Trips)

Here is a line from a file that I have:
-97.58301, 30.24751, "Highway 969 & Hunters Bend"

Your format as described is correct. Be sure if you have blanks or commas in the "Address" field that they are enclosed by double quotes. Did you edit the file with notepad or some other test editor? If you used Excel, it may have modified the format.

Other things to try are loading a copy of the file with only 3 or 4 lines incase you just have a bad record in the file.

If you can post a few lines on here, we can look at it and make suggestions.

Did you mean to say you saved the file as a c.s.v. file or .csv file?

What did you use to build the file? Notepad? excel? or something else?

Posting a few lines would be a great idea.

Here's a good page to check.

http://www.poi-factory.com/garmin-csv-file-format

Some problems I've noticed on POI files are:
1. More than 4 fields. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER do this.
2. If you have a blank field in an entry, type in double quotes. Some POI converters and editors get confused if this is not done.
3. If you have comma, quotes, CR, LF, etc in a field, always put them within quotes (Excel does this for you).
4. If using Notepad, end each row with a carriage return (enter key).

These are just a few of the things to remember.

Thanks to you all for your help

I don't know where I am going wrong but it doesn'tn work

Here is an exemple of what I am trying to do

-71.74416, 48.50313, "CAWM"
-68.25684, 49.20047, "CAWM"
-71.20671, 46.86861, "CAWM"
-73.46558, 45.46279, "CAWM"

I work with Excel

Thanks again

Tessierjm

tessierjm
Make sure that you do not insert the quote marks around CAWM in Excel. When you save the file as .csv, Excel automatically inserts them. If you already have quotes, you will end up with double quotes which will not work (""CAWM"").
File in Excel by columns should therefore be
-71.74416 | 48.50313 | CAWM
-68.25684 | 49.20047 | CAWM
-71.20671 | 46.86861 | CAWM
-73.46558 | 45.46279 | CAWM

If you wanted to send me a few lines of your file, I'd see what I could do with it.

mkahn

Thank you so much, I took your advice and it is working, my mistake was the quote marks.

Now I will work to update that file and upload it when ready.

To you all who answered my request thank you

Tessierjm

I just started. Where do I go first? I think I understand that you need to make CSV files and then use POI Loader to convert them. After that I guess I'm sorta lost. I have a KNA-G510.

Welcome thapranksta.
The only problem your going to experience is that you will become addicted to this site and your GPS very quickly.

To begin, go to the "Getting Started" section of this website. While you can, and probably will, be creating your own POI .csv files soon, there are hundreds available for download on this site. Go to the POI Files section and have a look. The third thing I would do is to enter "Kenwood" as a search criteria on this site and you will see several discussions directly related to your GPS.

Enjoy

Thanks for the welcome. I think I'm already addicted. lol. I've been trying to get an mp3 file to play whenever I'm around a Wal-mart. BMP file shows up and alert sounds but there is no mp3 file playing for some reason. The csv file, bmp file, and mp3 file all have the same file name. I'll start searching but in the mean time if you think you can help, let me know.

Did you load it manually to create an alert with poi-loader? (Beta version)

I used POI Loader Beta. I used Express Mode instead of Manual Mode if that is what you are asking. I named the files so I'm alerted within a 0.2 mile radius (keyword "safety").

Try loading manual mode and check the alert function and see if that helps

I am not sure if this is the right place but can some1 please tell me how to upload different maps on MIO? Email me at sudhaker_chhabra@hotmail.com. Thanks