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Posted by andrew_1101
No GPS icons showing at all

Hi,
I downloaded the red light custom POI file and installed no problem...when I next updated I deleted custom POI and then installed the new custom POI file. However, I now have no custom POI icons on the map, none of the red light camera ones or any of the original preloaded ones (fuel,atm,food). I've tried downloading, reinstalling, resetting to no avail. The POI are in the GPS as can navigate to any of the fuel, ATM, food and custom POIs but they don't show on the GPS by default. I'm running a Garmine Nuvi 2497LMT...any ideas?
Thanks Andrew_1101

Posted by johmazz2006
poi

Sounds like you only loaded the .gpx file and not the mp3 and .bmp files as well.
I have a permanent directory on the computer for POI files, and each type in a sub- directory.
When you update anything it will overwrite the old file with the new file.
You only need to then get the .gpx file (data) and not the added required files each time you update anything.

C:Garmin/POI
C:Garmin/POI/speed cameras
C:Garmin/POI/fuel
C:Garmin/POI/food
etc, etc, etc,

Have the program SOX.exe in the same directory where you have
POIloader.exe and POI loader then combines ALL the files in your POI directory into one file called poi.gpi which is then loaded to the GPS.

Posted by sebastian
Re: poi

Interesting, I have the same problem on my Garmin, I will try this way then. Until now I only focused on the POI that i was interested in. :-)

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Posted by johmazz2006
Re: suppressing Garmin unwanted icons

andrew_1101 wrote:
Hi Johna, the icons that I want to turn off are the ones already installed by Garmin. For example ATMs, they appear on the screen showing where to withdraw money, not really important from a navigation point of view. I can suppress the icons for the additional POI files I install but I can't see a way of suppressing those that were put in by Garmin originally.


Will check mine and see if there is a way of doing it.. :wink:

Posted by andrew_1101
gps icons

Any luck Johna?

Posted by johmazz2006
gps icons

Have gone through all settings and cant see anything to alter in the default details.
Looks like you can only remove the bmp files in the downloaded date from here, then use POI loader unfortunately. :cry:

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