Creating POI files

I've loaded some custom POI and corresponding bmp files onto my Nuvi 360. When I select a custom POI and choose 'Map' then the bmp picture is displayed. Only, when I drive to a location using 'Where to?' or when I use 'View Map' (in 2D) the custom POI along the way are not displayed. All my favorites / waypoints are nicely indicated, but not my custom POI.

How can I create my own POI files for a Nuvi 350. Is there software out there.... i want to save like red light cameras or school zones in my area... can someone give me some advice on this since this is all new to me..

thanks

I am new to the world of GPS and wondering if someone out there can explaing or direct me to a good program to create my own POI files that would have voice info as well as just the POI.

POI Verifier version 1.0.1.1 now recognizes 'Extended ASCII Characters' (such as é,è,ô). It needs to be installed to correctly verify POIs containing these characters and is available at POI Verifier.

RT

EDITED 7/9/2007 New domain name
POIVerifier.com

POI Problems:
POI Verifier was originally born to correct the linebreak display problem on the nuvi 350/360; but the formatting of these POIs was so bad I couldn't get past first base. Since the POIs first had to be corrected, I eventually changed the program to do the correcting, then do the conversion.

I would beta-test each new version of POI Verifier by downloading and running at least 100 POIs. Usually once a week I would email Miss POI with a list of the bad POIs along with the error locations, and she would fix them. But there were so many, sometimes over 20 at a time, that it was faster for me to correct the files than to list all of the errors and have her take the time to do the correcting. So that's what was done. This I understand upset some folks. If so, I'm sorry.

If the formatting of these POIs had been checked before uploading, this post wouldn't be! Some files were so bad they wouldn't even load, some wouldn't work, others had incorrect coordinates and multiple duplicates.

So what do we do? Load up POI Factory with bunches of bad POIs for other users to find; or do we correct them when we find them? To ask Miss POI to notify the author of every bad POI, wait for the author to correct it (not knowing if they even got her email), regularly check the file to see if it's been updated, then make sure another error hasn't been injected in the process, and possibly have to eventually correct the file herself, is asking one h_ll of a lot from her. In fact, requiring her do this with so many bad files is near impossible.

One compromise would be to have her correct the files with a posting of 'updated on....' without the 'by ....', and send a copy of the corrected file to the original author....this way no one would know if the original author corrected the file or someone else. As I mentioned to her, "I don't need 'kudos' for this; in fact, it makes me feel uneasy and I would rather my name be left out of the chain". Getting the files corrected while keeping peace in the 'family' is much more important!

Your ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

RT

I have uploaded the red light camera POI files onto my Garmin, but they don't alert me when I pass them. I went to settings and checked the custom POIs circle and that didn't help. Any advice?

There are a few different websites that have POI files on the same topic, such
as, all the home depots.

I don't want to load two home depot poi
files and find that their are two poi
markers on my map for the same location
because one says the coordinates are
slightly different than the next.

Is their an easy way to compare different
files to eliminate duplicate info?

Ok. I can save the current location to my favorites.
But how i do identify the coordinates in my Nuvi 660.

I'm new and just downloaded POI Loader. I have the Walmart POI in My Documents with the CSV. I don't know what to do now. It states windows doesn't regonize file. This is new stuff for me. How do I download to C330?
Thanks.

Once I load POIs onto the inserted SD on my Garmin Nuvi 650, are they automatically recognized on my maps or do I have to transfer the "new files" from the SD to the unit ?

Hello everyone,

Please check the alphabetical list of poi files before posting your file to make sure that it is not a duplicate file.

We now have so many files that I have lost track of what we have and what we don't have so I may pull something out of the moderation cue that I shouldn't because it is a duplicate.

Hi All,

This may be old news for many, but as a newbie to creating POI files, this site allows me to create or edit my own POI files.
http://www.poieditor.com/

I was looking for a cousins address in Florida, on my Nuvi 670. Long story short, the street name was a bust, every time I tried to enter it.

I tried converting a CSV with less than 4 columns. It seems to work but I get no coordinates in the output file.

What am I missing?

I am newly exploring POIs in my GPS and am wondering how I import a CSV file. I am sure this has been covered previously and perhaps someone could simply point me to the thread.

Thanks in advance,

BAT

I've successfully uploaded my first POI (Coffee Bean) onto my Garmin Nuvi 350, but don't see the Coffee Bean icon showing up on the map... I have the bmp in the same folder as the csv when I uploaded it.

Do I have to do anything else?

Thanks

can someone please tell me how to do this? I have a google earth KML file that I want to make into a CSV. I have PoiEdit but idk how to use it.

This is the link to the Google KML file

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&z=4&msid=1...

I just posted a POI for all the Maple Syrup places in Vermont. It would be interesting to have a POI for all the locations in Quebec. I believe that there are over 7000 locations. It will be a big project but a definite winner for people on vacation trips in that Province.

I have figured out how to create a POI to drive to a specific place.
My question is how to create a POI file to warn me with a speed warning alert for multiple locations. I downloaded one of the school POI as a practice. It looks like its asking me to "GO" to a specific school when I try to activate it.
I may not be setting this up correctly.

XXXX School A@20
XXXX School B@20

I'm a GPS novice. How to I move any of these files into a Magellan 2200T?

I just noticed that many POIs in several of my POI files display duplicate comments. The comment displays after the location name (in the larger font) and then again in the comment area. Does anyone know what is causing this?