Can you isolate indvidual Custom POI's on a 2699

doodallybloke · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2013 Posts: 29

Recently bought a new 2699LMT-D Garmin. It is different insomuch that you have to be careful with this Sat Nav of what you actually load into the unit by way of PGPSW custom POI's as it would appear to me that every POI that you load on the unit will show up on the map. Whereupon on the TT units you could a load the complete sets of POI's from here and then tick off the sections in the TT that you do not wish to show....... but keeping them in there just in case you require them at a future time. ie: a Builder Supplier up North somewhere or maybe a Car Part Supplier or similar if I were to break down in Devon perhaps.

I can find no way to DL full folders of POI's from here into the unit and isolate sections from within those file, and have therefore confined myself to just a few POI's. What with the inbuilt Garmin POI's (which I don't appear to be able to isolate either) and my Custom POI's the driving map just appears to be a complete mess if I load to many.

I think I know the answer already but can a whole section of POI's be loaded and then various bits isolated within the unit? If they can't then that would appear to be somewhat inferior to the TT units, accepting of coarse that the new TT's have a different POI strategy these days (or so I believe). Thanks.

sussamb · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 6:03 pm Post subject:

The answer you think you know is correct, you can't isolate individual POIs.
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dales · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 7:53 pm Post subject:

Yes, my 2599LMT-D was the same - my custom poi icons all over the screen and at all zoom levels.

So what I did was to reduce all the Tourist icons to 1 x 1 pixels. Now, the Tourist icons don’t show on the screen, but if you search for the nearest ones (Where to … Custom POIs) you can see the shaded radius of each selected one’s location and how to get there.

I left my speed camera icons alone, so they are always visible.

Dales.
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doodallybloke · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2013 Posts: 29

sussamb · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:22 pm Post subject:

You can select to not have any of the Garmin icons to display, just switch the layer off in Settings, Map and Layers
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sussamb · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:00 pm Post subject:

Strange. On my 2508 it's places along the road and so hides all the POIs Confused

Here's the Garmin FAQ

https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId=%7B69477cf0-cabc-11e0-cf56-000000000000%7D
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Kremmen · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:06 am Post subject:

I've turned all mine off on the 2599 so all I see is my large 44x44 speed icons. Hopefully the 2699 has the same options as the 2599.
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Kremmen · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:03 am Post subject:

I've never added loads of POi's but I seem to recall that by adding a set individually via POI it does show up in one of the menus with a tick box option?

I seem to remember my cameras and the cyclops set both having separate tick boxes to show and/or ?
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sussamb · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:34 am Post subject:

Yep. That's in Settings, Promity alerts.
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doodallybloke · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2013 Posts: 29

sussamb · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:38 pm Post subject:

If you've removed the Cyclops camera files you won't see that button anymore so that behaviour is normal. If you untick custom POIs you won't get alerts, as you thought.

I'd certainly try unchecking Up ahead places. It's in the same menu as Places along the road so it's possible that Garmin have simply renamed it.
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doodallybloke · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2013 Posts: 29

dales · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 4:38 pm Post subject:

Yes, that's it.
Remove the tick in Up Ahead Places, and the Garmin icons will not show.

You can check this in your chair at home:-
Just turn on the GPS Simulator (Settings..Navigation) and try a test route through your nearest town.

Dales.
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