Nulink 2340 POi question

Steve208 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 15

I have a garmin nulink 2340 sat nav, does anybody know how many POI's i can load onto it. I have tried to load them to the memory card but they don't show up even under extras, after speaking to garmin, they inform me POi's have to loaded to the internal memory, so hay ho, how many can it hold.

sussamb · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:56 pm Post subject:

No idea, but they take up so little space I doubt it'll be a problem Wink

Steve208 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 15

I know some garmin sat navs have limited like the i3 (i know its an old sat nav ) so want to make sure before i load some and find its too many and one knackered sat nav

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:45 pm Post subject:

In the past there was no limit (IIRC) on the number of pois but you were limited to 255 CATERGORIES. Try loading one category at first.

Steve208 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 15

This is reply i have received from garmin.

Your device will only hold up to 1000 waypoints, favourites and Point of interest. The 1000 locations include the POI's that are preloaded on the device.

MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:54 pm Post subject:

What a strange reply! I have about 64,000 locations on mine! I wonder if they mean individual files as opposed to locations?

POI Loader won't work with more than 32 files in a single folder so sometimes you have to create extra subfolders for extra files. E.g. speed cams in one subfolder, supermarkets in another subfolder then load them all up.

MaFt

Steve208 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 15

Thanks MaFt, i found it strange to, i have asked them if they mean 1000 poi's or 1000 catagories. All i want to do is put on pockets, speed cams and poi which i believe are already in catagories / folders

just heard back from garmin this is the reply

You can only have 1000 points of interested on the device regardless of how many categories you have or how the set out. Its 1000 points in total and there isn't anyway you can work around this.

MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject:

In which case you cannot use Garmin's own speed cam database, well, unless it is so bad they only have less than 1000 cameras... Wink

Our speed cam database with icons will take up about 1mb of space at the very most. If you add voice alerts then the file size will increase but not to any ridiculous degree that you would run out of space.

MaFt

MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject:

For the time being, if you connect the device to your PC and then open up 'My Computer' you should see the device in there. Windows Vista and 7 will show the amount of free space but you may need to right-click the icon and select 'Properties' in order to see how much free space is on there.

MaFt

Steve208 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 15

It gets even worse, after reading the manual it states

"In addition to map and data storage the memory card can be used to store files such as maps, images, geocaches, routes waypoints and custom POis"

So manual says memory card can be used for POi's and garmin tech help say it can't, so who knows what the way is to store extra POI's, i'm certainly confused

Steve208 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 15

Ha Ha have managed to work a solution out. I have looked at the internal memory POI file and all the POI's are saved as a .gpi file. On checking the POI's i have loaded to the memory card via garmins POI loader it has saved them as a .poi file, so i renamed the file to a .gpi file and hay presto when i switch on device it now states it has found some extra poi's and do i want to transfer them to the main device, when i say no, if i then look under the extra tab they all appear there, so obviously garmin tech help are no help and don't even know what there own devices can do..

MaFt · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:35 am Post subject:

Oh how stupid am I...

Sorry, I'd forgotten that Garmin messed up their most recent POILoader software and it saved files as a .poi instead of the required .gpi! For some reason I'd assumed they had fixed it so didn't even think to suggest it...

I think there is a link somewhere to the previous version of POILoader that works correctly!

MaFt

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:21 am Post subject:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=567433#567433
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Kremmen · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:45 am Post subject:

I find it incredible that it's taking so long to fix this most basic of errors.

The only thing I can think is that they have no source code control and they have moved the program on and cannot release their latest version because it would involve releasing other untested features or changes.
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