Can Garmin POI's be deleted individualy?

 

I have found quite a few of Garmin's POI's that were bad.
A Starbucks in a residential house??
Business' that have been gone for years!

Is there any way that I can delete them one by one, or change the information to reflect the proper location?

Thanks,

Bill

Deleting POIs

I don't believe you can do it. If it's possible, I think you'd have to be a serious hacker, well versed in machine language. I'm not even sure which of the files on the Nuvi contains the built-in POIs. Maybe some of the high-techs that visit this site know of a way.

Nope

No can not delete the internal poi's. But what you could do is report it so they can verify and remove them at a later update. You can also report inaccurate streets etc..

http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-external/secured/submi...

http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/errorForm.jsp

Normally, I would not mind

But, I like to support user supported sites like POI Factory and NOT support a business where someone is getting paid to do that job.

Thank you for your replies.

Bill
A little off topic, but I wonder if Garmin steals what people here are doing for free?
OR... Has someone hacked their system and stolen their work?

PaulATL wrote:

No can not delete the internal poi's. But what you could do is report it so they can verify and remove them at a later update. You can also report inaccurate streets etc..

http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-external/secured/submi...

http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/errorForm.jsp

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We're paying for it in the end anyway, so it helps to report errors.

The data all has be be verified before in can be included (or excluded) in the map data.

I second...

I second MM response. If they don't know, then how will they ever if we don't tell them.

Individual POI deletion

bill3rail wrote:

I have found quite a few of Garmin's POI's that were bad.
A Starbucks in a residential house??
Business' that have been gone for years!

Is there any way that I can delete them one by one, or change the information to reflect the proper location?

If you are talking about custom POIS on a Garmin you can, I think. If its the original POI's that came with your Garmin ignore everything that follows.

I'm new to this, but I think you could go to the Starbucks CSV file on your PC and open it up (excel will open it if you have it installed).

Find the location that is wrong and delete that row/line from the file. Save the file making sure you leave it as a CSV.

Then use POI loader to load your POI's again, and that bad location should be gone.

just report errors!

it helps others too!