Saving Custom POI file to Nuvi 660 SD Card

 

Could someone tell me how to save custom poi to a Nuvi 660 SD card. I can only figure out how to save them to the unit's memory so far.
Thanks in advance,
Billy V

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Billy V

When you are

Asked where to save to instead of your unit which is displayed, you will note you can drop down to your memory card...

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ

Custom POI's to 660 or SD Card

It depends on if you are trying with your unit pluged in or not. If not just put your sd card in the reader and then when it looks for device select the card. If the unit is pluged in then when it shows devices just select the card and load to it.

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

For some reason my 660 won't

For some reason my 660 won't recognize the card. What I would like to be able to do is save locations directly to the SD card with the unit itself. I.E, I'd like to be at "location a" with my car and save that location to the SD Card.

The unit only allows me to save to the favorites section. My favorites is now full (500 saved) and you can't just start saving new locations to the card for some reason.

If you transfer the favorites saved locations to POI, you can't later combine new saved favorite locations to the POI folder----it overwrites the old saved files with the new ones-----I would like to be able to combine them.

Any help you can provide would be great----Garmin Tech support could not provide me with an answer.
BV

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Billy V

you can rename the poi file in the 660

Then it won't be written over, as an example if you made a poi called my favorites1.csv or favorites_first_500.csv and loaded it to your SD card then accessed the SD card and renamed the file in the poi folder favorites1.csv or what ever suits you it will not be written over....

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ

Also..

You might want to name it afavorites.csv or maybe 1favorites.csv (I'm not sure if listed numbers are first) so it will be at the top of the list of custom pois. I'll have to check that out...

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ

favorites

Just as a suggestion.I use a program called easygps http://www.easygps.com/ and transfer my favorites to my computer .It transfers as a gpx file.I change it to a csv file so I can easily add new favorites to it.You can use poiloader and transfer the file to your sd card using the pull down window when you see find device..

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

I agree

with Charlie's approach of maintaining a Favorites POI on the computer and continually adding to it. I would, however, try to maintain it in the GPX format since it allows you to do so much more. There are plenty of programs that would allow you to merge the new with the old.

Finally, what types of locations are you saving that you already have 500 and are expecting more groupings of 500? Might they better fit into multiple categories -- separate files?

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Nuvi 660 -- and not upgrading it or maps until Garmin fixes long-standing bugs/problems, and get maps to where they are much more current, AND corrected on a more timely basis when advised of mistakes.

To add to what benbiker is

To add to what benbiker is suggesting. Which may be the best way for you to maintain so many pois. Look at this post on subfolders http://www.poi-factory.com/node/12075

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.