Feb 20

How to Create your own POI’s for your Garmin GPS unit.

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Software you will need:
Google Earth
POIEdit
POI Loader

  1. Load all your Coordinets/Addresses in Google Earth and drag to an appropriately named  folder under My Places.
  2. Right-Click on that folder and select Save Place As…  and save it as a .kml file.
  3. Fire up POIEdit and open the .kml file you just saved.  Then select the File menu and Save As.
  4. Select to save it as a Garmin Comma Seperated file.  And save that file in the same directory you save your other POI files.
  5. Then use Garmin POI Loader to load the csv file.
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