#GARMIN POI LOADER SAYS FILE NOT SERIES#
#GARMIN POI LOADER SAYS FILE NOT DOWNLOAD#

Bitmaps that do not meet those requirements may appear distorted when viewed on the unit's screen.Ĭustom bitmaps can also include a transparent color. Most compatible Garmin products work well with icons that are 24x24 pixels or smaller. Your Garmin GPS device may have image size requirements. For example, a customized bitmap named 'Speed_30.bmp' would be associated with all the the points in the file named 'Speed_30.csv' or 'Speed_30.gpx.' Bitmaps must be saved in the same directory as the associated data files. bmp has the same file name as the data file. 'POI Loader can associate customized bitmaps (.bmp) with the points in a data file if the. If it still changes the symbol to the 'l.b.s.' then it might be time for someone with an 'x' to contact Garmin to see if it is possible to have another symbol on Custom POIs.if that hasn't already been done. The symbols for POIs in my Map76CS match whatever 'maps' I have loaded at the time. Have you tried having your custom POI points in Mapsource as waypoints and selecting another symbol there, before exporting as a GPX file to import for the Custom POIs? Mark a sample waypoint in your GPSr with the same new symbol selected in Mapsource so that you would have your GPSr symbol set on this new symbol when the Custom POI file is imported. I know that you can't edit the Custom POI in any way once they are in the GSPr Note: I don't have an 'x', so I'm only guessing at what might work. Edited Februby TimpatĬhanging the 'little blue square' symbol. They work perfectly to autoroute to in my 60CX running City Select v.7.

They are just like other POIs such as a pizza joint I suppose, that you do a Find, read the attributes, or Go To. Just so you are aware, these custom POIs display as small blue icons, and you can only view them and navigate to them, no editing either. My entire POI folder loads up in seconds. Since the text is minimal with these the total file size is about 100 KB. I mentioned earlier you can have a total of 132 characters (44 on first two lines, 88 on next four lines), so I have a good chunk of any hints for each.Īlong with my GC.com waypoints I also have well over 2,000 other custom POIs I created as. gpx files that I customized to get the maximum amount of text to be included. These 700 cache waypoints total about 4.5 MB. Of that about 700 of these are GC.com waypoints that I grabbed from my PQs. I currently have over 3,000 custom POIs loaded on my 60CX. Any more info would be greatly appreciated! csv file through GSAK and loading it up? This is really good news.

#GARMIN POI LOADER SAYS FILE NOT SERIES#

gpi file.Are we saying that the X series will hold an unlimited number of waypoints as long as you have enough memory to store them? I want to be able to store a couple thousand caches in my unit (for long trips without CPU access), and be able to display them on the map as POIs and it sounds like this POI loader will let me do just that. The downside is once they are created you can't add to them without creating a new. POI files are useful in that they can contain many more locations than the maximum number of favourites you can have on your device. gpi file from your BaseCamp file or indeed any other gpx file. When you 'load' a gpx file from BaseCamp into POI loader it creates a. You can create your own by following the wizard in POI loader. gpi file and place it in the POI folder on your device.

#GARMIN POI LOADER SAYS FILE NOT DOWNLOAD#

Some folks create them and you simply download the. You can obtain Custom POIs in numerous ways. To navigate to them on the device you either do a Where to, Favourites or a Where to, Custom POIs although depending on the device there may be some steps in between the Where to and either Favourites or Custom POIs.īaseCamp can import gpx files but not POI files, however POI files can be viewed in BaseCamp via the Maps menu in the toolbar, you'll see Manage Custom POIs at the bottom, which will be greyed out unless you have a device loaded with Custom POIs attached. POI files normally are in the POI folder on your device, Favourites in the GPX folder. gpi, Favourites (or saved places on some devices) end in. I'm not sure why you're struggling with this, let me try to explain.

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