Proximity Alert in POI file 1490LMT

POILoader - running in "manual" mode, looks at each folder or file within the main folder (to which you initially pointed when asked "Please select where the data files can be found") and gives you several options. One is the "Ignore this file"; the other is "This file contains proximity alert points".

If you do not want alerts, then do not check the box. You will be asked these questions for every file or folder.

An option you might consider is having two main folder. I call one "MyExpressPOIs" and the other "MyManualPOIs". Within each of these folders are other folders whose names become the "categories" for my "Custom POIs"

I do two POILOader runs and give the output .gpi files appropriate names.

I have just one directory in my computer hard drive that holds all my POI files (csv, gpx, bmp, wav). When running POI Loader in Manual mode, I'm given the choice to decide which POI files will have alerts--and when alerts are set, whether to have the alert set for a speed or distance. For example, my School POI file (which I have set as a TourGuide with icon and alerts for school zone warning) alert distance is set to 600 feet. Yet for my Rest Areas Combined POI, my alert distance is set to 15,000 feet. For other POI files, I have no alert set. All work well together: the no alerts, the 600-foot warning and the 15000-foot warning.

I therefore think you can do the same and that your assumption that all alerts will go off at the same distance is incorrect. Give us a bit more info on what you're doing if you still find my results incompatible with yours.

Your reply is right on the money. It answers my major question.

A secondary question would be what distance is advisable for a speed trap alert?

Also, what is a TourGuide?

You'll get far more info on these things by reading the FAQ's, and will save someone typing it out again.

TourGuide added to a file name, its sound and icon file as well changes the way the file alerts. Normally an alert is triggered if it is "along the current route" and is within 50 meters or so from the street. Visualize this as a box with the length of the box being the alert distance and having a width of approximately 50 meters. If the street you are on enters this "box" the alert sounds. The TourGuide keyword changes the alert from this "box" to a circle with a radius equal to the alert distance. If you cross the boundary of the circle in any direction the alert sounds. Note though, the keyword is TourGuide. Exactly as typed with the T and G being uppercase otherwise it doesn't work.