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Matthew33 · Posted: 07/27/2009 06:33pm Post subject: Extra POI Folders help

Newbie here. I uploaded my POI file from a single folder using POI Loader. It created a single POI file on my 760. Is there an advantage of having different categories/folders? I have read many topics about this and it is still not clear to me. Can you search the different POI files by category on the Nuvi if you upload them from separate folders? If you have more than one category, are they all available as POI's to the unit at the same time? Rolling Eyes

syd · Posted: 07/29/2009 11:37pm Post subject: Re: Extra POI Folders help

Matthew33

Put all of your POI Files from all of your categories, along will all the .bmp and .mp3 related files into one folder. The POI Loader software will combine all of your individual POI files, into one poi.gpi file either on your gps or on your SD card for importing to your GPS.
Once this file is imported into your GPS, you should be able to select and scroll through each of the categories from the custom poi screen on your GPS.

roadrider01 · Posted: 08/01/2009 09:46pm Post subject: Extra POI Folders help

What I have noticed from experience is that the POI loader will only load one main file onto the unit (760). However, you can have numerous subfolders inside that main folder that you can organize your POI's into. The complete main folder with all the subfolders is then loaded all together into your unit. You could probably get around this some other way and I believe someone posted a way to do it some months back but I don't recall it exactly. It had something to do with renaming the folder(s) but I found the above method does work. The folders can be maintained or updated on your computer prior to loadfing them into your unit.

Hope this helps.

johmazz2006 · Posted: 08/03/2009 04:46am Post subject: Re: Extra POI Folders help

Make sub-folders under POI folder, put your warnings etc into their respective folders and use POI loader to transfer to your garmin. Does it all in one file, but readable on the garmin in the order you selected on your puta..

pleace · Posted: 08/17/2009 09:24am Post subject: Must give it a go

Thanks for the info on how to do this. Much better to have some sub folders to help order the POIs Shocked

dennis.dunbar · Posted: 09/16/2009 01:58pm Post subject: Garmin Folder Organization

Hello Everyone,
I organize my folders as follows. This seems to work the best for me.

Accommodations:
Hotels

Restaurants:
Starbucks
Dunkin Donuts
Best BBQ's in the South
Subway
Tim Horton's

Road Safety:
Speed Traps
Red Light Cameras

Shopping:
WalMart
Walgreens
Costco
BestBuy
Camping World

Tourist Locations:
Nascar Tracks
Big Things
Offbeat Tourist Locations

Transportation:
Airports
Rental Car Locations

pedro_mluz · Posted: 09/17/2009 04:44pm Post subject: Folder Organisation

Better still, if you are planning to travel a lot, you can still organize it further by country, e.g. Hotels_FR, Hotels_UK ..... and also have a separate folder for different types of speed cameras.

campsandvans · Posted: 09/19/2009 05:46pm Post subject: Folder Organisation

Hi Everybody

I have organised mine this way.
I have different files such as :
Camps and Caravan Parks
Restaurants
Cameras
etc

What I have done is to load each category separately using POI Loader and changing the name from poi.gpi to camps.gpi and so on then copy these gpi files to my GPS.
This way if you need to update only one file you don't have to reload all of your POI's.

You can split up your POI files into as many categories as you want.

Greg

ikhalede · Posted: 09/26/2009 01:19pm Post subject: File location

I there a way to add my poi file to the unit main categories, e.g my restaurants to be shown under garmin restaurants?

peter.g.sykes · Posted: 10/16/2009 10:16am Post subject: PoI Organisation

Hi
I think many of us do a variation on a theme.
My personal one is to have folders on my PC for each country to be visited, and within these sub folders for such as-

I load each country in, which will include the subfolder as catagories on my nuvi_465.
As I load each country I rename the file on the Nuvi to be UK_PoI (eg).
I also ensure that each of the gpx (and bmp) files are named with the country first - eg

This way they are easy to find when travelling around - you dont have to look through them all to find the french supermarkets for example.

Hope this helps others

Peter