Loading the Free POI's

boybrian · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2008 Posts: 4

Hi,

I have a Streetpilot i3.

I have downloaded the free POI's zip file. When I use the garmin POI loader, I select the zip folder frommy documents and it says the file doesnt have a csv ext. I have tried several times and am definately downloading the csv option rather than tom tom.

If I double click on the zip folder in my documents I get a message saying that the file is invalid.

Where am I going wrong!

Thanks.

Darren · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

Have you extracted the contents of the .zip folder first? What OS do you use on your PC?
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boybrian · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2008 Posts: 4

Hi,

I have not extracted the files - I take it this is not simply done by doubleclicking on the file?

I am using Vista home basic.

Thanks.

boybrian · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2008 Posts: 4

I have now tried right click - extract - I get an error message saying that I must copy files to the folder before I can extract them.

The file I'm downloading from here is 1,920kb.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject:

Sounds like you have downlaoded a lot. I would try again and only download a few POIs at first. Then right click the file and you should have an option to Extract the the files..

boybrian · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2008 Posts: 4

Thanks for the replies so far.

I tried only downloading 1 POI (Accomadation). When I right click and select "Extract" I get the error message:

Cannot complete the compressed (zipped) folders Extraction Wizard, the compressed (zipped) folder is empty, before you can extract files, you must copy files to the compressd (zipped) folder.

Anything else I can try?

Thanks.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:25 am Post subject:

Delete the file and re-downlaod. This time try the Show Link option.

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