Display POI on Garmin 1340 Map (not bothered about alerts)

TheGurkha · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2006 Posts: 12

Hi Folks,

I have a Garmin 1340 which I purchased to replace my not-long-for-this-world TomTom One.

One thing I can't find a way to do is to have the POI displayed on the map. Neither the standard, Garmin-provided POI nor my Custom POI.

The PocketGPS speed cameras do appear, and the alerts work just fine, no problem with that at all.

But in the TomTom there was a setting where you could select which POI to have displayed on the maps.

Not with alerts, just displayed so you see them as you go by them - cash points, petrol stations and a few other useful ones. I'm guessing this must be possible with the 1340. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be very appreciative.

Thanks in advance.

TheGurkha · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2006 Posts: 12

By the way, I've searched and trawled the existing posts but can't find anything that answers this query. Sorry if it is a common newbie question.

TheGurkha · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2006 Posts: 12

They do show up if you have zoomed into the 2-d map enough.

On the 3-d map they show up if you navigate to one of them.

But I'd like them to just be there, whether they are the destination or not.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:04 am Post subject:

The only way to do it would be to set them up to have Proximity Alerts by using the Manual Mode in POILoader. See the manual for more details.

The alerts get rather annoying quickly BTW...

And have too many on display and it'll slow the unit down...

TheGurkha · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2006 Posts: 12

Thanks, I'd come to that conclusion myself, and I don't want tohave to put up with the alerts, so I guess I'll learn to live without the POI on the map.

Thanks for the reply, anyway.

PhilHornby · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:30 pm Post subject:

TheGurkha · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2006 Posts: 12

Thanks for the extra info.

I think the custom map thing is going to be beyond me to be honest, but I might try the 124mph trick.

I'll append _124 to the .csv file and see how I get on.

TheGurkha · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 11, 2006 Posts: 12

Well, I don't know what happened, but the custom POI are showing up on the main map whilst driving now, using the little icon I provided, so it all seems to work. But I have no idea what made it start doing it in my preferred way.

Thanks for all the info and suggestions anyway.

toaster · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 07, 2005 Posts: 8

Do you think it was the 124 thing ?

If not, you talk about a custom icon. What did you do here ?

Cheers,
T

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