Help for a newbie

I'm a little unsure of your request due to the fact you stated you are manually loading POI with POI Loader. I assume you have all the poi in one folder and that you are setting the alert distances when the file name comes up in POI Loader.

First off, I would advise against setting an alert on all your POI files. With alerts on every POI, the system will be so busy announcing each location it will drive you to distraction. Driving through a town with alerts set for each ATM, restaurants like McDonld's, Applebee's and others will have a constant stream of alerts causing you likely miss driving directions. I find it much easier to go into the Extras and then ask the unit to route me to the closest location. That doesn't mean I don't have alerts set, I'm just selective about which ones.

But, to answer your question, to my knowledge there isn't a batch method of setting alerts. You can organize your POI files in a couple of ways which will simplify the update process.

In your POI source file on the computer, you can create sub-folders one level deep and then put the files into those folders. As an example you can have an ATM folder, Fuel folder, Restaurant folder and any number of folders up to 32. Put the files for each of these into the corresponding folder and you will have the folder names show in the Garmin.

Another method is to take the subfolders and then load each subfolder independently. When that folder has loaded, rename the POI.GPI file stored in the /GARMIN file on the unit to the folder name keeping the GPI extension. This means you only need to reload the folder that changed and not all.

I know that at the bottom of the screen for each location you can enter the speed or distance alert. It should then save it in the file. I have not tested it to see exactly how it works.

My suggestion is to import your csv file into gpx. Then export gpx to a csv file. You will now see all the columns separated and two are for speed and distance. You can copy / paste the correct data there. Save file, then open with gpx. Now it has all the corrected data with the prox info.

Try and let me know how it works. Phil may know a better way.

daniel