[talk-au] Invisible POI's

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, John Henderson wrote:
> Liz wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, John Smith wrote:
> >> It also didn't
> >>
> >>> appear on my Garmin when I approached it.
> >>
> >> No idea how to get these show up on garmin's, although I'm guessing as
> >> some kind of POI that will give you warnings when you are coming close
> >> to them.
> >
> > They are in a binary file which can be edited in some "POI uploader" and
> > then transferred to the Garmin under Windows, as I recall.
> 
> This is a good intro to custom POIs:
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/pagepoi.06.htm#newbiepoi
> 
> John
> 
The hassle with those custom POIs is needing the windows stuff to upload them.
Otherwise making the list from OSM data is a programming job.

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