Any GARMIN POI loader GURU in the house?

[+Desert_Warrior]

Howdy,

 

I have been inactive for a while. Life getting in the way of caching I guess.

 

Taking a trip to a dog show. I would like to load geocaches as POIs into the Garmin NUVI 350 and set a proximity alarm to alert me when we get within say 10 miles. Time to fire up the 60CS and get ready to stop. I could probably experiment and figure it out.... but I am running out of time, we leave Friday morning. Got lots to do still... and then there is WORK!

 

Can someone point me to a tutorial on setting proximity alarms, or give me an example of a .GPX or .CSV format. Once I see it I believe I can get her done.

 

Thanks.

 

Mike. KD9KC.

Desert_Warrior.

El Paso, TX.

[+Klatch]

Howdy,

 

I have been inactive for a while. Life getting in the way of caching I guess.

 

Taking a trip to a dog show. I would like to load geocaches as POIs into the Garmin NUVI 350 and set a proximity alarm to alert me when we get within say 10 miles. Time to fire up the 60CS and get ready to stop. I could probably experiment and figure it out.... but I am running out of time, we leave Friday morning. Got lots to do still... and then there is WORK!

 

Can someone point me to a tutorial on setting proximity alarms, or give me an example of a .GPX or .CSV format. Once I see it I believe I can get her done.

 

Thanks.

 

Mike. KD9KC.

Desert_Warrior.

El Paso, TX.

Well, I don't have one of them newfangled machines, but on my 76CS when you select a waypoint and press "menu" you are presented with a "set proximity" option. Maybe POI's work the same?

 

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Edited February 12, 2007 by Klatch

[+Desert_Warrior]

 

Well, I don't have one of them newfangled machines, but on my 76CS when you select a waypoint and press "menu" you are presented with a "set proximity" option. Maybe POI's work the same?

 

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Good morning, and thanks for the reply.

 

OK - I figured out how to do it in Garmin POI loader. Select MANUAL and it will prompt you for speed or distance from. This works great for red light cameras and geocaches. Actually, anything within 37 miles.

 

HOWEVER - I thought of yet another use. I am a ham radio operator. I am a member of a closed system of linked repeaters. I have the LAT/LON of each one in a .GPX format file. I tried to load them all (150+) into the NUVI 350 and set the proximity range to 50 miles (a good choice for radio range). It seems POI loader only uses feet. OK - 50 x 5280 = 264000 feet. Bad answer - it seems to be limited to 200000 feet.

 

Anybody got a work-around? Or do I need to edit each and every point manually? CAN I edit POIs in the unit? Do it each time I load them? Someone has got to have discovered an easier way.

 

Thanks Y-all.

 

Mike.

[+LandRover]

 

Good morning, and thanks for the reply.

 

OK - I figured out how to do it in Garmin POI loader. Select MANUAL and it will prompt you for speed or distance from. This works great for red light cameras and geocaches. Actually, anything within 37 miles.

 

HOWEVER - I thought of yet another use. I am a ham radio operator. I am a member of a closed system of linked repeaters. I have the LAT/LON of each one in a .GPX format file. I tried to load them all (150+) into the NUVI 350 and set the proximity range to 50 miles (a good choice for radio range). It seems POI loader only uses feet. OK - 50 x 5280 = 264000 feet. Bad answer - it seems to be limited to 200000 feet.

 

Anybody got a work-around? Or do I need to edit each and every point manually? CAN I edit POIs in the unit? Do it each time I load them? Someone has got to have discovered an easier way.

 

Thanks Y-all.

 

Mike.

I don't have the answer for you but people over here are having the opposite problem so there must be a way to change from feet to miles and miles to feet.

[+Desert_Warrior]

I don't have the answer for you but people over here are having the opposite problem so there must be a way to change from feet to miles and miles to feet.

 

Thanks, I asked the question there now too. Actually, what they are getting (0.01 miles) would be fine for me. Hope they have learned how.

 

Mike.

[+TotemLake]

I don't have the answer for you but people over here are having the opposite problem so there must be a way to change from feet to miles and miles to feet.

 

Thanks, I asked the question there now too. Actually, what they are getting (0.01 miles) would be fine for me. Hope they have learned how.

 

Mike.

Saw your alias pop up and just wanted to welcome you back to the fold.

[+Red90]

Have you read the help files for the POI Loader program? There is quite a bit of information there.....

 

I would doubt that they have designed it to work with 50+ mile proximities as there would not be many reasons for that.

Edited February 12, 2007 by Red90