Loading POI’s

[Mallard]

In my POI folder I have several sub-folders. These sub-folders are entitled: Hotels, Friends, Relatives, Parking, etc. In total, I have approx. 490 POI’s

I use POI Loader to transfer my POI folder to my Sat-nav. I currently have a NAV 5 and an XT.

POI Loader tells me that all POI’s have been transferred, but when I check my sat-nav I find that some are missing. For example: In my Hotel folder I may have 20 hotels, but when I check my sat-nav (either one) I may have only 18.

There does not appear to be any corelation between the size of the various folders and the number of POI’s that are missing. Some of my smaller folders only have 8 POI’s, but only 6 are transferred. Other folders may have 50 POI’s, and all are transferred.

Has anyone else experienced this, and does anyone have an answer?

I’ve up-loaded, down-loaded, re-loaded, changed SD cards but still have the same issue.

 

[Mallard]

Any ideas anyone?

 

[Wapping]

I don’t use a POI loader but, as a fun guess:

Might you have given the missing POI’s two classifications perhaps? For example, classifying a cafe as a cafe and a restaurant? Meaning that it doesn’t appear or appears somewhere else.

 

[Wapping]

Is this any help:

Custom Points of Interest Not Displayed on a Device | Garmin Support

Garmin Support Center United Kingdom is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products.

support.garmin.com

 

[Wapping]

Have you resolved this problem? If so, how?

 

[Mallard]

Have you resolved this problem? If so, how?

I have not cracked my original problem, but what I have done is broken my POI's down into smaller files. For example; when I'm in the UK, I don't need my file on German Hotels, and when I'm in Germany, I don't need my file on Swedish Hotels. So, in effect, I choose my POI's for the trip I'm going on.
I always load my POI's from my Lap-top via POI Loader onto an SD card in my sat-nav.
I'll be off to Germany shortly and have loaded 256 POI's with no problem.
So, I still don't know if the original problem is me, any of my sat-navs or POI Loader, but Garmin say that you can load as many POI's as you have space for on your sat-nav or SD card.

 

[Deleted account 250722001]

Using POI loader, I've currently have over 300 thousand custom poi's loaded- see screen shot.
The methodology is to use Excel ( yes I know there are other programs which can do the same) to create .csv files.
[One assumption is that your garmin has sufficient memory]
Having folders enables 'easy finds' AND the possibility to associate an icon to that file (assuming all the pois in any folder are the same type) in order for that an icon to becomes visible on the garmin- (rem zoom levels!)
And before anyone mentions it... no, I do not plan on visiting them all!
Custom POIs, once loaded with POI Loader, will all be in one .gpi file and these do not take up the space allocated by garmin for user created POI's. So if your unit can have say 10,000 poi's and you have not used any then they all remain available to you and are editable via the garmin. Custom pois though are not editable on the unit but require the .csv files to be edited then re-uploaded via the loader.
NB any new upload using POI Loader will erase the existing .gpi file if one exists in the unit without warning.

My understanding is that Custom POI's are best loaded into the units' internal memory and not the SD card-

 

[Wapping]

300,000.

I never knew they was that many Tesco stores.

 

[Deleted account 250722001]

What a bizarre response to someone who is providing a 'how to' to help Mallard.

Particularly when you say:
"I don’t use a POI loader but, as a fun guess"
Could it be that Mallard is hoping for a solution here as against a 'fun guess' ?

As far as your wanting to know the solution:
"Have you resolved this problem? If so, how?"
Might I suggest a little less hubris and a little more learning?
p.s
"I never knew they was that many Tesco stores."
should read:
I never knew that there were...

 

[Wapping]

I never knew they was that many Tesco stores.

But now I does.

It was a joke, for feck’s sake. Lighten up, mother.

PS You’ll have probably noticed that it was me that brought the thread back to life, all but a month having passed since we last heard anything.

 

[Mallard]

But now I does.

It was a joke, for feck’s sake. Lighten up, mother.

PS You’ll have probably noticed that it was me that brought the thread back to life, all but a month having passed since we last heard anything.

Thank you both for your input. You both clearly know more about sat-nav & POI's than I do. At most I only have about 600 POI's and I'm sure that I don't really need all of them, so, I'm quite happy with my work-around.

 

[Wapping]

The thread has given me inspiration to start collecting Points of Interest.. A third of a million (or a smidge under) is the target to beat. I am though wondering how best to file them, as I’m sure there will not be enough categories, once I have worked my way through ‘Useless, A to K’ and ‘Useless, L to Z’.