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POI Management

beerich
over 12 years ago
OK, I am confused. The set of Garmin applications has me confused as to what to use on my GPSmap 62stc. The more I involve myself with these tools, the more I find there are overlapping functionalities.

I have downloaded sets of POIs that are quite massive. As I travel, due to the limitations of the number of POIs that I can put into my unit, I have to install them, and when I pass the region, I want to take them out. A pain, but manageable, given the right tools.

As I travel, I move into new areas where I can load new POIs. No problem, if I can delete the previous POIs. I am using BaseCamp to plan my trips, and view my MacBook POIs, etc.

How can I delete POI lists on my 62 from BaseCamp? Getting info on the unit says BaseCamp should be able to manage these, but it isn't.

Am I doing something wrong?

Should I be using POI Loader? Why both applications? Why in POI Loader, does it say to erase all the previous ones? Is sending POIs in the Loader, the same as sending POIs via BaseCamp?

Confusing, confusing, confusing. Garmin, you need a comprehensive strategy on how to manage small XML or CSV data sets to units, when installed on one, both, or neither. Adding more functionality when it is not clear, is not a good thing. This isn't a competition of who can design the most jam-packed system, because eventually nobody is impressed. We're here for functionality, not being impressed by complex development. Juggling your applications and having to come into the forums just takes away from my holidays.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    Have you checked the POI loader forum? The nuvi manages POI as a file you create with the POI loader and you add and delete the file. You are probable adding favorites to GPS and not POI. You can add POI to base camp that are basically waypoints. Depending on your maps large number of POI are usually duplication of POI contained in the map. My math professor said, if you understand it is simple and if you don't, it is complicated.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    Have you checked the POI loader forum? The nuvi manages POI as a file you create with the POI loader and you add and delete the file. You are probable adding favorites to GPS and not POI. You can add POI to base camp that are basically waypoints. Depending on your maps large number of POI are usually duplication of POI contained in the map. My math professor said, if you understand it is simple and if you don't, it is complicated.


    I don't have a Nuvi. I have a GPSmap 62stc. I'm not driving, I'm on a bicycle. Favorites? I'm talking about POIs that come in data sets downloaded from POI websites. You import these lists and not enter them one by one. Your math professor?
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    The nut of the response is correct, though. The POI files created by the POI Loader (the *.gpi files) can be moved in & out of your GPS device as needed simply by using a file manager (like Windows Explorer).

    You can use BaseCamp to create map files. You can use POI Loader to convert those files into GPS-readable files - the gpi files. Just pop into your what you need, delete from it what you don't. Save them, maybe, somewhere, like a flash drive (if you're not traveling with your own computer and will use someone else's).
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    The nut of the response is correct, though. The POI files created by the POI Loader (the *.gpi files) can be moved in & out of your GPS device as needed simply by using a file manager (like Windows Explorer).

    You can use BaseCamp to create map files. You can use POI Loader to convert those files into GPS-readable files - the gpi files. Just pop into your what you need, delete from it what you don't. Save them, maybe, somewhere, like a flash drive (if you're not traveling with your own computer and will use someone else's).


    I'm on a Mac. I cycled across Europe last Spring using Basecamp. All is clear now. I don't need POI Loader.

    Garmin really should clean up the mess of applications.

    Cheers
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    Managing POI's

    Maybe it would be good to use the proper terminology so we can make sure we're discussing the same thing.

    First, we're in the Mac forum so I'll provide the following based on what Mac-BaseCamp and Mac-POILoader can do for you.

    You appear to know that POI's are commonly saved/shared in either CSV or GPX formatted files. Of those two file types only the GPX file can currently be Imported into BaseCamp. That GPX POI data will be seen as Waypoints within BaseCamp. You can Export your Waypoint data as CSV or GPX files either of which can be read by POILoader to create a POI compiled file for your GPS. That POI compiled file is of the GPI file type. The GPI file can contain many thousands of POI's. I have one with well over 20,000.

    POILoader will enable you to load and delete the POI file from your GPS. If you are going to only send a segment of your POIs to the GPS at a time, the next time you install POI's with POILoader, POILoader with overwrite the current POI.GPI file on your GPS. If you just want to delete the POI's on the GPS there is a check option to do so when POILoader starts up. POILoader will also allow you to Name your POI file as you load it to the GPS. This will give your POI's a Topic Name in the "Extras" POI app on the GPS.

    There is a fair amount of discussion in the POILoader Forum on how best to manager your POI's on your Computer so as to make it easy to load just what you want to the GPS or load all of your POI's.

    Cheers,
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    So I'm using two applications to manage POI's, either made or imported. It just doesn't make sense. Basecamp should be able to do all those things, and more. And indeed it does. At least I found a way to do that.
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    So I'm using two applications to manage POI's, either made or imported. It just doesn't make sense. Basecamp should be able to do all those things, and more. And indeed it does. At least I found a way to do that.

    Could you be a little more descriptive on how you are "managing" your POI's and how you loading POI's to your GPS without POILoader?

    Certainly BaseCamp can "manage" POI data. But, BaseCamp cannot create the GPI files necessary to have real POI's on your GPS. No one will argue that it would be nice if POILoader (not the word "Loader") were a component of BaseCamp but that is not the case - currently.

    Cheers,
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    I import them into Basecamp. I then have a collection on my unit using "send list to device" top left in the menubar. I receive tracks using "Receive from Device".
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    So I'm using two applications to manage POI's, either made or imported. It just doesn't make sense. Basecamp should be able to do all those things, and more. And indeed it does. At least I found a way to do that.

    If BaseCamp required a new GPS, it would make the developers job much easier. I'm impresses that BC does as much as it does considering the variations in the devices it supports. I think you are confusing POI with favorites.
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    I import them into Basecamp. I then have a collection on my unit using "send list to device" top left in the menubar. I receive tracks using "Receive from Device".

    As PSEABOLT noted, you are using POI's like Waypoints. GPS's all have a relatively small number of Waypoints compared to the number of POI's they can support (assuming a GPS supports POI's - your's does). You should Export the POI's you have Imported to BaseCamp as a GPX file with an appropriate name - like; Campgrounds.GPX or Hostels.GPX. Then use POILoader to load that file to your GPS. I don't own a GPSMAP 60 Series GPS so I don't know what the Menu item will be for you to see your POI's but they will be on your map - although you will need to zoom in closer to see POI's than you do for Waypoints.

    Cheers,