Newbe Question on POI's

The factory loaded and custom pois are located in different places on the gps storage.

You will need to load all the custom pois at one time or it will overwrite the existing custom pois.See http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25721 for installing custom pois.

Each time you run POI Loader it writes an output file called poi.gpi. Putting all your source files into a single folder so the loader loads everything in the folder at the same time is the way to handle this. There are other tricks, including renaming the poi,gpi file to something else - as long as the gpi extension is retained.

It is true that all POIs are replaced when you load new ones, but it's easy to deal with. Just keep them all in one place on your computer, in one folder that I call Custom POIs. In this folder are a number of subfolders such as K-Marts, Red Light Cameras, McDonalds, or whatever you want.

Let's say you want to download the latest Red Light Camera file. Save the new file to Custom POIs/Red Light Cameras to replace the old file. All the old K-Mart POIs, etc. you previously downloaded still exist in their subfolders inside Custom POIs on your computer.

When you run POI Loader, navigate to the Custom POIs folder. POI Loader overwrites all POIs in the GPS, and it uses every subfolder in Custom POIs on your computer and asks whether you want to install each one when running in manual mode, or installs every subfolder in automatic mode. For instance, it takes the K-Mart POIs and installs them again, so the same old K-Mart POIs will still be in the GPS when you are finished.

The factory-loaded POIs are not involved in this, and are safe from being over-written or deleted.

dobs108

I like this idea of subdirectories. I was creating the generic poi file for each subject and then renaming that file on the device to match the subject, so it wouldn't get overwritten when I added subsequent POIs. So, I would have a rest area poi file, a historical marker file, etc. I like what you're doing because there is no file renaming to be done. Everything does get put in one file, but if I want to add a type of POI I just create another directory and leave all the others. If I don't want a particular POI anymore, for some reason, just move or delete the directory and everything else remains the same. Maybe it could be argued whether there is actually more or less work depending on which way you prefer, but if nothing else your method seems more organized to me. Also, one other point. I do put all my custom POIs on a SD card. Just prefer that over putting everything on the device itself.

This idea comes from contributors to POI Factory who helped me as a newbie a year ago. Charlesd45 deserves credit. See his guide to loading POIs on this site -

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25721

Also, Gary Hayman deserves credit. See his site -

http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/index.html#page...

dobs108

I'm in the same boat and I have a TomTom one XL.

Can anybody help me download my POIs, please.

Thank you

Welcome to the site billc22.See http://www.poi-factory.com/node/9488 for installing pois on Tom Tom.What you can do is download files from site and load to Extra Poi Editor and save the file in the Tom Tom format.See http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor for download.