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| Posted by areb New to Web Site - Garmin 250W Being a new user to the web site and POI, I have had a frustrating learning curve. First tried to manually copy downloaded files to the POI directory on my Garmin, only to discover that GPX files vanish after disconnecting from the computer. After a call to Garmin support was told that I needed a POI converter, but couldn't find one to convert GPX to GPI files needed for the 250W. |
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| Posted by johmazz2006 Re: New to Web Site - Garmin 250W Go here to download the POI Loader program, free download. It converts all files into one file, a POI.GPI and loads that to your Garmin. Each time you update anything it will erase the old file and install the new file (overwrites). |
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| Posted by areb Thanks Thanks for the reply. I'm getting there. Have now got to the point where I see collections of files can be created as poi.gpi by the downloader, and then renamed and manually installed in the Garmin\poi so as to work with smaller groups of files rather than have everything in a single file. |
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| Posted by GDT More... Some posts are not listed here. See all posts here: New to Web Site - Garmin 250W GPS Data Team |
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| Posted by johmazz2006 Re: Have you tried Categories on the device?
Which directories in you GPS are the various GPI files ? The POI Loader sorts all .GPX, CSV files before loading them into ONE POI.gpi file to the GPS from the computer, and the GPS reads them as they were seen on your computer. Think I may be missing something? |
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| Posted by Guest multiple gpi files All my GPI files are in Garmin\POI. I have figured out that to create a POI file, I need to use the POI loader, but it appears you merely create a POI.GPI file of those you want eg. Safety, but before creating another POI.GPI rename this file on you Garmin to Safety.GPI, and then create another eg Schools. This will create a new POI.GPI which you would then rename accordingly. Does that make sense? |
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| Posted by johmazz2006 Re: multiple gpi files I think you will find that everything in all the sub directories under Garmin\POI are sorted and loaded as the . GPI file to the Garmin GPS, but are read as they were in the computer before creating the POI.gpi If you check your custom section in the Garmin I think you will find they are as per in the computer sub directories. |
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