Long time Mac user, here to help!

Welcome to the site!

Hi Acill,

I like your style and welcome to our ever growing family...

Regards,

Tailspin

Nüvi 670 & 880
Mac Pro & OS 10.5.7

Thanks for the warm welcomes. I'm currently figuring out the site and getting all the poi spots I like installed into my Nuvi. We have a lot of fantastic stuff on here. It truly is a great site.

Welcome to the site..... although we have great information and a wealth of POI's....this site's greatest treasure is its members (and owners, Jon & Miss POI !!)

Thanks for your willingness to come aboard and add to the site your particular skill set.

MacBook Pro Aluminum
Garmin Nuvi 360

I've been a heavy Mac-user for over 15 years & Garmin owner for a little over one. This is a great community & we're dern glad to have you.

I'm still waiting for the mythical Mac user that will come along & create a Mac-based TTS voice editor. Then, we will be complete.

Again, welcome to the family!

Welcome as well! Always good to have another Mac user on-board.

Hi Poifect,

Add me to the list of Mac user's who would love to have a Mac compatible "TTS Voice Editor"...

"To sleep, perchance to dream"

Regards,

Tailspin

Nüvi 670 & 880
Mac Pro & OS 10.5.7

I'm a Mac tech with a Garmin 1690. Feel free to ask me any technical questions.

I have been using POI loader and csv files for a number of years, and I wanted to update my custom POI files.

All of sudden, POI loader will not upload my csv files.

I have changed nothing on the files.

I have updated POI loader to 2.1 and my OS to 10.5 since the last time.

Sure could use help.

Thanks.

We appreciate your enthusiasm and look forward to your posts.

I'm a new iMac user.

Which iMac?

i might take you up on your offer someday . i took the plunge and have a 24 inch imac. daughter wanted me to get the 27 but so far happy with the 24inch. it sure is bright ! ive had a few issues but ive managed to work thru with help from the folks on this site. glad another mac user around.
mike

probably a simple issue but here goes. I have a macBookPro and a nuvi 500. I've loaded the POI Loader and picked a poi I want to load. I download it to my computer but that's it. The directions say to download to a file but never does it ask me that. So now what?

thanks for the help

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/85

See if this helps.

thanks and my problem (i think) is in the reading/transfer of the poi file. I see it but can't open it when I'm in loader. Next?

As long as you have all the .csv or .gpx poi files in the same directory (folder) on your Mac, along with any corresponding .bmp and .mp3 alerts you may want with the same name to go along as a set, then you just navigate to that folder where you keep them from within POI Loader. You will not see the files themselves when navigating from within POI loader, but that's okay. It will still see the files and load them as long as you point it to the correct folder where you know all your POI file sets to be.

I have had several Garmin nuvi's (currently 780 & 765T) and am also a long time Mac user.

How do I backup my Garmin 1450T to my Imac?

Hi jgreg,

Mount the 1450T on your iMac, then create a new folder on your desktop and name it, let's say, Garmin Backup, then holding down the "option key" and drag 'n drop the mounted 1450T icon, into the newly created folder. That will copy all of the contents of your mounted 1450T.

Regards,

tailspin

I made a folder on the desktop called POI. I click on the GPX icon on the H-D POI page. It downloads a file but tacks a .xml onto the end of the file name. I have tried simply deleting the .xml from the name and saving the file in my POI folder, along with the .bmp file of the H-D icon. When I run the Garmin POI loader it says there are no valid POI files in the selected folder. Any ideas?

hi,

I'm also a long long time Mac user with Garmin Nuvi GPS.
The latest map I have For canada is Garmin
City Navigator North America NT 2011.20
Is this the best one for British Columbia?

Welcome we can always use more Mac users onboard. Put me down for the tts voice editor for mac.

I just joined in. Mac user having my own problems with .bmp crashing poiloader.
Opened bmp in PS saved as OS bmp. Still no luck.

Now for your solution I hope. Try changing the .gpx to csv. I think I did that and it worked.

You can also edit your POIs .csv in Numbers. I took all the Rest Areas, separated out those with RV dumps and exported the new Dumps Only RA POI.

And is there any chance of finding a few Ubuntu (or other linux flavor) users in our midst ?

I had a dream - a community of GPS users, all of them collaborating, across the main OS flavors with sheer willingness...

PS: Miss POI, congrats on the new pic

Welcome..

Good to see a Mac User.

I have been trying to make bitmap icons for a while. Weird stuff happens...icons work fine in GPS but; appear as tiny icons when viewing on my Mac.
I have tried PS,Acorn,Gimp,Paintbrush & Pixelmator. All with the same results.
Do you have any suggestions?

I just got onto the mac bandwagon. I have a StreetPilot 7200, how can I download my custom poi's? I made them from scratch a few years ago, but I don't have the originals any more. I save a lot of points as favorites, but then it slows down the gps so I want to add them into one of my old poi files.

Do a Google search for the following apps for the Mac, download them and you will be able to do whatever you want to do on your new Mac for your Garmin. The first 7 you can get at Garmin's web site. Between POI Organizer and Garmin POI Loader, you should be able to do what you're asking about.

Garmin BaseCamp
Garmin Map Update
Garmin MapInstall
Garmin MapManager
Garmin POI Loader
Garmin RoadTrip
Garmin WebUpdater
LoadMyTracks
POI Organizer

1) From my Mac, how can I get to the POI files on my 7200?

Finely got it to work!!!!

Downloaded all mi poi's into Basecamp.

Now, what is the best way to convert it back into a .csv file?

I was trying to download some new vehicles and voices from Garmin and the thing would not download to the Mac at all. When the Garmin was attached it would start but crash with the following error message:

"Can't find variable: urchinTracker"

Does anybody have any ideas about how to fix this? This is not crucial by any means, but is puzzling.

Thanks

How do I get CSV POIs into Base Camp. I have tried using POI loader with no luck. Please help.

Thank you.

Hello everyone... I am a life-long mac user... started with the Mac Plus in the 80’s. Currently own a 24-inch iMac 2.83ghz duo core. I work on a mac everyday for my career... printing with graphics and images as my specialty. I have been a GPS owner since Christmas 2011. I am learning and loving the creation of my own custom POI icons for downloads from this wonderful site. If anyone needs any icons created... give me a ring. I would love to help!
Take care!

Hi
I have a Garmin 2595 and I am also new to Mac. I have a macbook.

Can someone walk me through step by step on how to add a POI (like reststops) to my Garmin?

How do I also add a sound alert to the POI?

As I am really new to a Mac and I have no clue on how to get this done; any help would be great.

Thanks Cy

There's another thread that should help you. It's called "Garmin - Loading POI Files With POI Loader" and it's at http://www.poi-factory.com/node/85

Brian, I too am a long-time Mac user, actually developer. I could always use icons, and I could trade some of my apps for icon design. If that interests you please let me know. My apps are at www.modesittsoftware.com
Thanks!
-Bill

The reason for the low number of posts in the Mac community is because there are less problems with the Mac environment, and we Mac users are just smarter people.

You really do like breaking the crust and stirring up Doo-Doo, don't you? Besides, you broke the ND agreement by leaking the secrets about Mac.

It's a gift.