Just to be thorough, I decided to load the newly minted poi.gpi file into my GPSMap 62s to see if it would work. So I plug in the 62s with the mini-USB cable, fire up POIloader and use express install. For some reason, my first attempt failed. POI loader did not recognize the sdcard as a device because I had not given the card a name. So I had to install the POI file using the Computer option. I pointed it to the SDCARD/Garmin directory. At that time, I had not yet created the SDCARD/Garmin/POI directory. I then manually moved the poi.gpi file...
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Take a look at http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/creating_custom_poi_files.jsp#mapsource.
Look at the section describing custom POI and MapSource. You can use the same method with BaseCamp. This is yet another way to do it. The good thing about this method is that you can use BaseCamp to organize your custom POI's. The downside is that you will have to assign icons and audio files upfront, when you are creating the POI's. This could potentially be a problem when trying to change proximity or speed alert parameters for a large number...
After a recent road trip up North I realized I wasn't all that familiar with my Nuvi 1490T and it's capabilities. Then I came across custom POIs while searching the web for Nuvi related articles. Here are a few useful links:
Gary Hayman's Garmin GPS, Tricks, Tips, Work Arounds, Secrets and Ideas
Dave Brillhart's GARMIN GPSCustom POI Alerts & TourGuides
Garmin's POIloader utility
The CSV method is simple and works nicely but it doesn't...
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Got this error message this morning when I started BaseCamp and plugged in my 1490T. A quick search on Google revealed the possibility of a corrupt .GPX file. In this case, I had to remove the current.gpx file from my 1490T. Everything worked nicely after that. Strange. Here's a forum post on the topic: http://forums.gpsreview.net/viewtopic.php?t=226...
Friday, December 2, 2011
Having only used MapSource on a PC, I was not familiar with the BaseCamp equivalent on a Mac. I had just tried loading maps into BaseCamp (Mac version) by plugging in my GPSr only to discover that it would not detect MalSingMap that was installed on a uSD card.
I came across an article in the MalSingMaps Forums with a brief but incomplete description of the process. So here's my idiot's guide version to getting all this to work on a Mac. I really should get around to including some screenshots. But that's a labour intensive task that will have...
Sorry about the clumsy blog title, but I can't think of something else that clearly captures the essence of this post.
This may sound silly, but I had been wondering how to load maps into BaseCamp running on Mac OS X Lion. It turns out that all you have to do is plug in your Garmin GPS receiver (GPSr) via the USB cable and fire up BaseCamp. Wait awhile for the GPSr to boot and BaseCamp will detect and cache any maps it finds in your GPSr (it works with Nuvi and the 62s). The available map titles are displayed at the top of the left hand panel....
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