The mysterious case of the vanishing POIs
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14 years
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Hey,
I downloaded some POI files and also created one of my own for my trip to Europe. They were there, and with the Europe SD card in my nuvi 260w I was easily able togo to Custom POIs and see them. They would show up on the map when in that view. All was right with the world...
And then I downloaded the SCDB POIs for my garmin and loaded those. The strange part (at that time) was that although I could still see all my custom POIs, there were none appearing for all the many speed camera categories, etc. Of course, these were loaded from csv files which looked slightly different from the custom POI file I'd made for all of our hotel locationssince they were proximity alerts, so I just figured they must not show up like the Paris and Dublin walking tour POIs or my own custom one.
Then I flew to Europe...
Once in Europe I was surprised by two things. First it took an astoundingly long time to acquire the satellites, and second, ALL of my custom POIs were gone and the custom list was now full of various categories of speed cameras, etc, from the SCDB.
You know, it's comforting to know I've got all those speed cams in there, but to be honest I think I'd trade all of them for my hotel locations back. What's up? where did my POI's go? I SWEAR I didn't delete them!
As Karen tell me when I make a wrong turn...
You don't listen very well do you?
EVERY TIME you run POILoader, it overwrites any existing POI.GPI file in the target directory.
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downloading poi's
Right, every time POI's are downloaded, ALL the POI's wanted need to be included in the download to the GPS.
Ah ha!
That would explain much. Thanks! =)
change the nmae
Create them on your PC and then change the name when you do a different group. than copy all of them to the sd card. when it ask you download them to the gps, say no. It will still see them on the sd card.