Fire up ye olde POILoader again, mount the GPSr as a USB drive again, and see what I've got:
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I'll toss all my caching-related POI sources into another Windows directory, which will then contain the results of a "My Finds" PQ along with a bunch of other PQs that have been glued together by GPSBabel into a master "Unfound Caches" file. (Which is expected, since POILoader works that way even when it's combining everything into a single file.)Īnd let's do one more, just for good measure. Note that the filenames I used when renaming the "poi.gpi" file are irrelevant - Select Database names the entries the same as the source files, not the filenames on the actual microSD card. Unmounting the USB drive and heading to the GPSr's Find -> Custom POI section again, I find that I can now bring up the Select Database option, where I see both of my POI files listed:
So let's once again try renaming the "poi.gpi" file that POILoader created - since it contains VA-related info, I'll keep it simple: Now when I use the GPSr's USB Mass Storage option, I see two files in the Garmin\Poi folder: Okay, now let's fire POILoader up again, and this time point it to a small group of POIs that I use on trips to Virginia - this one called (with my usual originality) "VA Trips.gpx". With only one POI database loaded, there's no Select Database option available, so I can't yet tell what the GPSr thinks my database is named - I'll check this a few steps further down. Hey, those actually look like benchmark PIDs! (If you haven't benchmarked, just trust me on this - benchmark PIDs are kind of like the GCxxxx waypoint IDs for geocaches.) I guess I can put the fire extinguisher down now. will the POIs still show up, or will they not show up at all, or will my GPSr perhaps explode into flames.? Well, let's tell Windows to unmount the drive, hop over to the GPSr, and see what's listed under Find -> Custom POI. So, I wonder what would happen if I simply renamed the 'poi.gpi' file that POILoader created, and called it something else.? Firing up the USB Mass Storage option afterwards, I see the expected file in the expected location on the microSD card (which shows up as Drive E on my Windows box): If only there was some way to separate infrequently-changing POIs (like benchmarks) from frequently-changing POIs (like caches).įor tonight's experiment, let's start by taking my benchmark file (since it's benchmarks for Massachusetts, I've been super-original and named it "MA Benchmarks.gpx"), tossing it into its own folder, and having POILoader chew it up and spit it out to the GPSr.
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It worked fine, but it was also kind of sad knowing that poor little POILoader was digesting 7000+ benchmarks - which I'll only update every month or two - just so I could get my much smaller geocaching POIs updated after the morning's PQ arrived. oh yes, and caches - musn't forget those caches! Previously, I'd been tossing an assortment of GPX and CSV files into a folder, firing up POILoader, and letting it munch and crunch its way through all the files. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I've got several sources of Custom POIs - benchmarks, places I want to find easily on business trips, well-reviewed restaurants I want to try.
Ever actually tried putting more than one file in that folder.?įor tonight's edition of "Silly Garmin POI Tricks", I'll use the POILoader program and the GPSr's USB Mass Storage interface to create multiple Custom POI files on a 76CSx, and along the way perhaps manage to justify this as something more than an effective treatment for chronic insomnia. Ever wonder if you could put more than one file in that folder.? Ever wonder why they created a whole subdirectory to store one file.? Okay, so we all know that POILoader sucks in one or more GPX/CSV files, munches and crunches the data, and spits out a file called poi.gpi into the \Garmin\Poi\ subdirectory on your microSD card, right? I don't remember seeing this covered in previous threads for the Garmin Custom POI, and since there's going to be a number of pictures I thought it'd be best to start a fresh topic rather than dumping this beastie into the middle of an existing thread.
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