Unable to Calculate Route
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I've been working for several days trying to get my POI's loaded and in a usable state on my Garmin 265w. By way of this website, I finally feel like I'm making some great progress. But I'm still in need of assistance.
I've downloaded several POIs from this site and created a few of my own. I put them all in a csv file and loaded them into Extra_POI_Editor. Within that program I am able to pull-up every POI and see all related info. I then created the gpx file and loaded the POI's to my Garmin.
Now comes the issue. When I attempt to access any of the custom POI's, the Garmin comes back with "Unable to Calculate Desired Route". This is quite frustrating, needless to say.
I'd greatly appreciate any assistance from this forum on how to fix this issue.
Regards,
mucrick
When you run poiloader do
When you run poiloader do you get message some many custom pois loaded?You may want to review your process see http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25721 .Do you get the error for evey custom poi found under where to,extras and custom pois? Or certain files?
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let me recap
I've been working for several days trying to get my POI's loaded and in a usable state on my Garmin 265w. By way of this website, I finally feel like I'm making some great progress. But I'm still in need of assistance.
Congratulations on finding the site and the files. The Nuvi 265 will load custom POI files, display custom icons for those files and can play a custom alert sound when available as a .WAV audio file. The most common problem in getting the files to play together are double extensions and not installing the SOX.exe driver.
I've downloaded several POIs from this site and created a few of my own. I put them all in a csv file and loaded them into Extra_POI_Editor. Within that program I am able to pull-up every POI and see all related info. I then created the gpx file and loaded the POI's to my Garmin.
Now comes the issue. When I attempt to access any of the custom POI's, the Garmin comes back with "Unable to Calculate Desired Route". This is quite frustrating, needless to say.
I'm a little confused by the steps you took here. When you say you put them all into a csv file, does that mean you appended all the files together to create one extremely large file or do you have a separate file for each set of POI?
Can we assume you have a GPX version of the same file or files you created using Extra POI Editor (EPE)?
You state you loaded them into the Garmin. Did you use POI Loader? And what did you load? You load only the GPX or the CSV version of a file, not both. So only one or the other is in the folder POI Loader uses as input. This folder can also contain the custom icon and sound file for the set of POI. You must be certain these files have only 1 period in the file name and the icon file is exactly the same name as the POI file except it has a BMP extension. The same for the sound file, it will be the same except it will end in WAV.
You also will have to have loaded SOX.EXE into the C:\GARMIN folder on your PC. This is the same folder that has POI Loader.EXE.
I'd greatly appreciate any assistance from this forum on how to fix this issue.
Regards,
mucrick
You may want to break down the loading sequence and stick to only the files downloaded from here first. See if they load, POI Loader will tell you it was successful and see if you can bring them up by touching Where To -->Extras -->Custom POI. If you can, then start loading your new files one at a time and be certain the Nuvi doesn't barf over those. Then, when everything has been tested, you can then reload all the files from your source folder, but remember - it's either a CSV or GPX of a file, not both.
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(After I hit Post I see that this has already been suggested while I was typing.)
I would suggest trying just 1 POI from this site and see if it calculates. Try a csv file and if that works then try a gpx.
The problem could be in the Lat/Long entries you made to your own POIs.
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