Online GPI tool - Create Garmin TourGuides
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16 years
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We are putting the finishing touches on a new tool at http://www.geotourguide.com that allows you to upload your own audio content or browse a database of audio content to create a custom Garmin TourGuide .gpi file. The tool gives the user the option of including the audio or just including the location as a POI. You can include an image that appears during the tour, and you can include multiple tour locations in one .gpi file. The Tool is called GPI generator (http://www.geotourguide.com/node/267)
Basically create a Garmin TourGuide from your own audio, or the audio available on the site, or both together.
The tool allows you to choose audio from locations based on different categories (genre or geography) and create a GPI for download.
This simplifies the process:
- Audio naming (of the MP3) and other required conventions are handled by the tool
- The file is not included in your poi.gpi file (as with POI Loader) and can be deleted as desired (ie optimize space requirements)
- You can organize multiple TourGuide's based on location, genre or any designation. When you create the gpi it adds the files under a single heading in your custom POI menu item. You can organize all of the Paris TourGuides under France, etc.
- You don't need your GPS device to be connected to create the TourGuide (as with POI Loader)
- You can upload your own audio and set proximity and lat/long information as desired
It’s completely free, just requires registration. We're looking for feedback on the tool so try it out and let us know. Thanks!
Tom
Great Idea
I have been looking for a tool like yours to do some other marketing type of applications other than city tours, such as real estate, sales coupon applications.
An nice Idea but
If I want to use my own copy of music I paid for under the fair use doctorine, I can't because you make it available to others?
You don't have to share it
You don't have to share it with others, there are a number of ways to keep it private. In addition, once you upload any kind of audio you have complete control, you could even delete it immediately after you create the TourGuide file.