Nuvi260 Custom POI Categories

All you have to do is create folders in your POI folder and put your files into those. I believe Garmins only tolerate one folder level.

So for example, you have a folder called Custom POIs that you keep them all in. If you have it organized like this...

Custom POIs
+ Dennys
+ Taco Bell
+ Red Light Cameras
+ Rest Stops
etc.

then on the Garmin, they all show up in the same list under the Custom POIs section of the device. But if you do this...

Custom POIs
+ Food
++ Dennys
++ Taco Bell
+ Red Light Cameras
+ Rest Stops
etc.

Where +food is a folder and Dennys and Taco Bell are inside it, on the Garmin, it will show up under Custom POIs as Food and the rest on that same level. Picking food will then show all the ones inside that folder.

As I said, I think you can only have one folder level, so no folders allowed inside the Food folder.

PT

Try this thread it answers your questions.

www.poi-factory.com/node/8674

When loading custom POI's into your GPS, the POI's will be displayed by using the name of your CSV or GPX file. For example, if you load two POI files called "Taco Bell.csv" and "Jack in the Box.csv," you'll have two categories in your custom POI's called "Taco Bell" and Jack in the Box." If you want them in a category called "Food," you'll have to combine those two files into one file called "Food.csv" and then load that file onto your GPS.

I'm not familiar with GPX files...I've only used CSV files. A CSV file (comma separated value) is just a text file that uses commas as a delimiter. Most people open them in Excel because the fields show up nice and pretty, but in my opinion it's better to open a CSV file in Notepad. If you want to combine the two POI files from the example above, then open both of them in Notepad, copy all the contents of the "Taco Bell.csv" file and paste it at the end of the "Jack in the Box.csv" file. Then save that new file as "Food.csv." Now you have a POI file called "Food.csv" that you'll load onto your GPS. If you come across more POI's later that you want to add to "Food.csv," then just copy and paste the POI's onto the end of the "Food.csv" file (using Notepad) and then upload that new file.

There may be other/better ways of doing this, but that's how I do it.

See my post above. No need to create a new single CSV file. Just put the two files into the same subfolder called "Food".

PT

Yeah, I saw that. I figured there was a better way to do it than I was doing it...I didn't know you could do it with folders.

Thanks.

Wow...I love this site. You guys got me up and running asap. I have loaded my POIs using the subfolders, etc. and it all shows up perfectly. I do have one peculiar thing happening that maybe you can shed light on. My promimity alerts seem to only work if I am on the actual road where the place is. If it is across the Interstate and I can see it visually it still will not alert me. Is this a bug or does promimity alerts only apply to actual road and not radius? Any ideas?

I don't have the exact work around. However I did read another thread regarding this problem. Search for alerts. This thread may help

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/2983

... only work for me when they are on my plotted route. And even then I seem to have some difficulty with them. The school zones never seem to alert me, but on my trip to Florida, the Rest Stop and Time Zone alerts worked perfectly. So I'm still figuring this thing out.

I have found them to alert you only when you might possible be on a route towards them. As you noted, if they are not on my direct path they don't alert (but I do see them on the screen).

The interesting part is if I approach one where a side street or turn will take me to it, I get the alert, but as soon as the Garmin figures out when I pass the intersecting street that I didn't take that route, it stops alerting. Kind of cool actually.

PT