Is this the correct way to create my own POI

 

In order to create a POI of a ABC restaurant,

step
1. Dirve my car to ABC restaurant, then save the location to my Favorites on my GPS

2. export my favorities to excel in CSV format to get
coordinates.

3. then correct information of ABC rest. on excel

4. then use POI loader load back to GPS

are these correct step to create my own POI

Could someone teach me,

thanks very much

JJ

Or... you can look up the

Or... you can look up the address in the phone book.
Then, plug that address into terraserver.microsoft.com or a similar online, get the lat/long from there.

finding locations

If you don't know the address but you know the location, use can use Google Earth or Microsoft Streets and Trips to get the GPS coordinates.

Another Way

la1129 wrote:

In order to create a POI of a ABC restaurant,

step
1. Dirve my car to ABC restaurant, then save the location to my Favorites on my GPS

2. export my favorities to excel in CSV format to get
coordinates.

3. then correct information of ABC rest. on excel

4. then use POI loader load back to GPS

are these correct step to create my own POI

Could someone teach me,

thanks very much

JJ

Either drive to the restaurant and jot down the lat/long (on my Garmin 680, you can get there by hitting the icon on the top left of the screen from the 1st menu screen), or jot down the address of the restaurant. You can google the address of the restaurant and it will give you the zip code. I then use Garmins MapSource software, enter the address and this gives you the lat/long. You can use the other programs as mentioned above. Then go into Excel. In col A you put the west address (ie -112.17445). Make sure you put the minus sign in front. In the B col put the North address (ie 34.34636). In the C col you can put something like Bank of America. The D column I use for the address. Then save your Excel spreadsheet but make sure you save it as a csv file.

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Larry - Nuvi 680, Nuvi 1690, Nuvi 2797LMT

And another way is ...

If you are collecting a few points rather than hundreds, or just verifying points you suspect are off, your GPSr can give you the co-ords.

The nuvi 6x0 series will work in a manual mode with the GPS antenna down ( off ). That way you can navigate via the "View Map" screens and zoom all the way in ( approx 120ft view ). Then you can set the location with the "Set Loc." button, and view those co-ord via these clicks;
"Where to?" -> ( scroll down key) -> "Coordinates".

Check the "Format" button if your display does not show the data in the format you want it in.

HTH
dd