Saving Custom POI FROM Garmin TO SD Card
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 10:44pm
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13 years
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hi. i am trying to help my husband who is stuck on a truck figure out this problem.
how do you save custom poi's FROM his garmin TO an sd card?
help please
The file is poi.gpi on the
The file is poi.gpi on the garmin's internal storage.
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If you move it to the same directory (Garmin\poi\) on the SD card, it may work.
(I havent tried this myself...but it should work in theory..
Nuvi 350 Born Oct 07 - Nuvi 660 Unit #2 (re)Born Sept 08 - Nuvi 360(Gift to 'the chick' yet maintained by myself) Born July 08
no usb use
we are trying to figure out how to do this without the use of a computer or usb.
any suggestions?
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You can't without a computer. Your hubby's trucker friends may have to wait...
Sorry for the bad news.
nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK
thanks for all the help
thanks for all the help anyways guys :S i think he was hoping not to. his buddy and went and did something to the poi's so all the ones my husband had saved in his garmin went poof when his co driver input some...i'm lost but i am the one with computer access lol.
thanks again.
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Yea, if he loaded them with the POI loader, they were over-written. A common question here.
An 'Oh, crap' moment!
nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK
To avoid this. . .
To avoid this in the future your husband can store them to the card by default (or his friends for that matter), so when this happens again either one can give the other the SD card. When the system comes on it will prompt the user to store them onto the unit's internal memory. They should say yes and they will be copied to the other persons internal memory. The card can then be removed and they will both have the files until the one can get to a computer to rewrite them to an SD card.
JRoz -- DriveSmart 55 & Traffic
also...
Change the name. The default is "poi.gpi". Any name with the .gpi extension will work, and POI loader won't overwrite it as well.
Striving to make the NYC Metro area project the best.
Is this how
Change the name. The default is "poi.gpi". Any name with the .gpi extension will work, and POI loader won't overwrite it as well.
Camerabob,
Is this how you store a spare copy of your POIs?
Nuvi 750 and 755T
send them via Google maps
I know it works on a 1690. If you have a few POIs that's he's mainly interested in, you can find them on Google Maps and send them to him. If there are very many, it may be too tedious.
After you've found the location on GM, choose:
Send
GPS
I believe they'll be saved in Favorites.
nuvi 1690 with ecoRoute HD, SP2610 (retired), Edge 305, Forerunner 405
Not so much spares
Change the name. The default is "poi.gpi". Any name with the .gpi extension will work, and POI loader won't overwrite it as well.
Camerabob,
Is this how you store a spare copy of your POIs?
I have several POIs. Some change often (red light and camera), and some rarely (mines, caves, etc). I only update the changing ones and don't have to reload all my thousands of poi (dozen or so files with various levels of alerts...)
Striving to make the NYC Metro area project the best.
This is a good technique
I only update the changing ones and don't have to reload all my thousands of poi (dozen or so files with various levels of alerts...)
I think camerabob's technique is one that most should learn how to use. I do and give each renamed .gpi file a descriptive name and date - like "subaru 20100322".