Magellan Files

Have you looked at this page?

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1632

The Getting Started and FAQs pages are linked at the top of each page.

Thanks... I'll try that. I'm sitting here laughing at the fact that with a $4 map, I'd know right where I am! haha

I can't get the file editor to read the excel file that lists the Harley Dealerships. It keeps saying I need NAME/LAT/LON in marked fields. They ARE in marked fields, but it will not read them.

Ok, my disclaimer is that I don't know anything about the Magellans, but if it's asking for NAME/LAT/LON, you might need to change the order of the columns in the POI file.

For Garmin units, the POI files are arranged LON/LAT/NAME. Try opening it in Excel and rearranging the columns.

Welcopme to the club. I don't know anything about Magellans either... but with your help.. a little luck... and some some not-so-clean living... It worked! I got the synch! Thanks MM.

Now... can anyone tell me if I can synch this bad boy up with Microsoft Streets and trips? I'm guessing not... but the worst I can get is "no."

What do you mean by 'synch'?

Do you mean transfer data? My guess is no.

Do you mean have the unit transfer it's positional data to S&T? Again, my guess is no for 2 reasons. First of all most of the newer auto units don't support the NMEA protocol to transfer information.

And S&T, I believe, only supports units on serial ports not on USB.