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 into the correct directory. Bad idea. Nothing showed up on the 62s.
So I retraced my steps. First I gave the card a proper name. Then I erased the poi.gpi file in SDCARD/Garmin/POI. Fired up POIloader again. This time, the SDCARD showed up as a device. I chose this and express install. Now, the Extras item appears when I hit the FIND button on the 62s. Hurray!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Loading custom POIs into a Garmin GPSMap 62s
Posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 by littlemapper
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I have the same problem, but doing it over and over again, deleteing, creating a new directory, nothing works. Any other suggestions?
ReplyDeleteI had my 62st connected to the computer, with the derectory Garmin/POI and installed using pioinstaller, restart the unit and I still cant find any of the pois.