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#4 Tour Guides - Create the GPX file All images on this page are extracts from full size screen shots. Click on the image in order to see the detail of the original. We need to use Basecamp for this, and there is a departure from the POI instructions here. It is possible to put all of the resources...

#3 Tour Guides - Create Sound, Icon, Image The picture can be a photograph or a drawing - anything that can be saved as a JPG file. Whatever size it is, it will be reduced in size to fit into a 480x360 windows on the Zumo screen. This may mean that the image is stretched or squashed, or it may mean...

#2 Tour Guides - Create Your Folder Structure This is best if the main folder is just off the Route. I will use J:/TG-Demo/ Inside that I need 3 sub-folders - one for the files that are associated with each Waypoint/POI. If you have more Waypoints, you need more subfolders: J:\TG-Demo\TourGuide-01\...

#1 Tour Guides - OverView A TourGuide is a feature which allows Saved locations to be plotted on a map which will alert your when you get close enough. A POI is plotted on the map An MP3 file can be played when you are in the vincity - this could be music, a narrative or a simple ping. A photo to a...

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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...