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#3 Create Image and Icon

#2 Create the Folder Structure on your computer

#1 Tour Guides - Introduction

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#6 Testing at Your Desk Testing is easier if you choose your test route points to be within a couple of miles from your current location. Assuming that is the case, these are just brief pointers as to what to do. Copy the GPI file to SDCard/Garmin/POI. Restart your Zumo and check the following: Plu...

#5 Put it all together So we now have 3 files inside a folder that we created. In my case J:\IndPoi\ Saved Files.png I have called them all by the same name, but they have different extensions. If you do a few of these, you very quickly get confused about which files belong with which collection. I...

#4 Create an Icon and an alert sound. First, Create the Icon The Garmin documentation, such as it is, requires the image to be 24 x 24 pixels - this is about the size of the blue disc shaping point. I have tried larger sizes - 36x36 and 48x48 and both seemed to work on the XT. 48x48 was a bit large...

#3 Create Waypoints in Basecamp Pick up the flag tool and use it to place a few waypoints. These can be anywhere - they don't have to be used in the route, the icon will be displayed wherever they are. However, they will only produce an audible alert if they are actually on the route that you are f...

#2 Create a new folder on your computer. It really does help if you can create a folder from the root of the disk drive. I keep small empty partition called J: just for this situation. But you could create a temporary folder from the main drive C: Move the folder for safekeeping elsewhere out of th...

#1 Introduction Many mapping programs use the tem 'Points of Interest' to mean a location that has been stored. Garmin uses this term for that purpose too - in Basecamp. However, Garmin also uses it for something slightly different: a saved location that will show up on the map whether it is part o...