POI's and Nuvi 760

bobnic6 · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: POI's and Nuvi 760

Hi all,

I've created an "Airfields" POI file, which expands on the "Airports" file in your list but have a problem, or two...

1: I have to zoom in very close to see the POI symbols on the map, is there a way of making them show at lesser zoom levels?

2: There are 99 records in my file but you can only scroll about 52 of them, going from the closest to some 180 miles away. The others can be accessed by typing the name. Is this normal behaviour, or have I got something wrong?

3: Can you get a POI file into Mapsource as it would be easier to check the accuracy on a large screen?

Cheers

Bob

bobnic6 · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:52 am Post subject:

HELLOOOO

Can no one help/advise?????

Cheers

Bob

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:13 am Post subject:

Hi and welcome.

1) This is normal for Garmins and can't be changed.

2) Garmins usually only show the 50 (or so) closest POIs to your current location. To see others you need to set your Location to somewhere else and then you'll see the 50 closest to that location.

3) Not sure.

bobnic6 · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:59 am Post subject:

Thanks Paul,

That explains it.

Is there an easy way to check the accuracy of POI's, other than scrolling round them all on the GPS?

Bob

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject:

You can view pois on a map by using utilities such as POI Edit, and thee are utilities to convert them to waypoints for progs like MS Autoroute and Google Earth.

bobnic6 · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:13 am Post subject:

Hi Andy

POI Edit was a big help, although it did reformat the .csv file in a minor way, probably not a major problem.

Why are POI Lat and Lon the "other" way round to those used in the likes of Memory-Map?

Can you give some hints as to where to find the "convert to waypoint" utilities please?

Cheers

Bob

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:46 am Post subject:

bobnic6 · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject:

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PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject:

POI Edit saves in lots of formats including .kml for Google Earth, MoiMap, Destinator, Garmin, iGo, Navman etc. and some formats that Autoroute can import directly.

bobnic6 · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks all,

As soon as I get time I'll download and try...

All the best

Bob

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