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<DIV><STRONG>But will they stay when one zooms back in, as one would have to
do?</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><STRONG>Bob
"Trekker" Brewer</STRONG>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/29/2014 10:13:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
bcss@bresnan.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Fireweed
- If you go to settings on your gps and change all the zoom settings from auto
to 120 miles then all the POI's will behave like waypoints and show on the
map. <BR><BR>Jerry Brown<BR><BR>Sent from my
iPad<BR><BR>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 7:16 PM, "Mary Kwart"
<mkwart@gci.net> wrote:<BR>> <BR>> I am hiking the New Mexico
section of the CDT this spring. I use a Garmin etrex 30 and loaded the Bear
Creek CDT POIs for New Mexico using POI loader into my GPS internal memory. I
bought a Garmin map card last year for Arizona and New Mexico and didn't want
to have to buy more maps or go through the hassle of downloading free maps to
the internal memory. So I was stuck with using only the internal memory to
save CDT data.<BR>> <BR>> This is just an FYI--something I didn't know
about custom POIs: you can't access them through the "All POIS" choice, but
have to go through "Where to"--"Extras" to select them from the first menu
choices. On top of that--all of the POIs will not show up (which made me
paranoid). This is because, unlike Waypoints, the GPS will only let you scroll
through the custom POIs that are closest to your present location. SO--I only
could scroll through BC segment 19 POIs. I thought the rest of the POIs were
not there. Base Camp showed them as being in my internal memory, though.
There is no documentation for this in the etrex owner's manual. I called
Garmin support and found out that you can only directly scroll through the
custom POIs closest to your present location. SO--segment 19 was closest to my
location in Oregon. The other POIs were in the GPS, just not displayed for me
to scroll through.<BR>> <BR>> To see the rest of your custom POIs on
your GPS you have to select "Where to", then hit the menu button and use the
"search near" function to choose a waypoint, map point, or recent find to
allow your GPS to display custom POIs that are not near your current location.
SO--my paranoia has resulted in new knowledge for me.<BR>> <BR>> Oh
yeah--the BC POIs for New Mexico appear to be less than 2000. So the waypoins
for NM should be able to be loaded without turning them into POIs--useful for
those only doing NM now. I am too burned out on dealing with my GPS to try
this, but may before I leave for Tucson (April 7). Waypoints are a lot easier
to deal with than POIs--they display on your GPS map without having to query
each one individually. I told the Garmin support guy that there should be some
way a user of POI loader or Basecamp can know how many points are in the file
before they download it to their GPS. POI Loader tells you how many POIs are
downloaded only after you down load the file to your GPS. Basecamp doesn't
tell you anything at all. If anyone knows anything different please tell me.
When I talked to the Garmin support guy, he admitted that they are ill
equipped to deal with the needs of long distance hikers who use thousands of
waypoints. One Garmin support guy didn't even know what custom PO<BR>Is
were.<BR>> <BR>> I can feel people's eyes glazing over at this, but the
devil is in the details, as usual. It will be a relief to actually get on the
trail.<BR>> <BR>> --Fireweed<BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
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