Shamus, see post #28 in this thread. I chose POI Factory for my speed camera/red light camera custom POIs and they work great. Sometimes I'll get a false positive when the speed camera is facing the other direction but it's still good to get the heads up. Worth the $5 I paid, IMO.

 

Read the whole thread! Just wanted to make sure alerts would work when not having a destination set on the Garmin.

 

Yep, they work like an independent layer on your map regardless of whether or not you have a destination plugged in.

 

Great Cperez! After doing a lot of research, the 430n really seems to be the better of the two units offered by Jeep. If they could just get traffic into it (either by siirious or garmin) it would be perfect.... minus a few bugs of course!

 

If I try to put 5 POI's on at one time. I cannot name them all :\Garmin\Poi\POI.gpi. What do I name the other 4??

 

It's been awhile since I did this, but as I recall you put all of your custom POI files (typically these are .csv or .gpx files) in the same folder on your computer then run the Garmin POILoader software on that folder. It integrates all your custom POI files into the single .poi file that is then loaded into the Garmin device. File naming is therefore not a problem. I think the detailed instructions for generating the file are on Garmin's web site: http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/

 

Thanks worked perfectly. Now I understand how to do it. Thanks

 

do the same steps apply for the 730N radio?

 

No, the 730N doesn't run Garmin software. I don't know that anybody has found a way to load custom POIs into it.

 

does the same apply for loading favorites from my NUVI to the 430N?

Do I just place the current.gpx in a GPX folder?

 

Does the same apply for loading favorites from my NUVI to the 430N? Do I just place the current.gpx in a GPX folder?

No, it's not that easy. You have to process the .gpx file through Garmin's program. Look higher in this thread at Remleym's post of 5/1/2011 for details. That's how I got POIs into my 430N.

 

I just dropped my GPX file into my POI folder and created a new GPI file as described, and it loaded into my 430N fine.

I first renamed the GPX file to "Favs", and it's now in my POI's in the FAVS folder.

Like the previous poster said, just click on the POI and select SAVE, and it saves them to your Favorites.

I then reprocessed my POI files without the GPX file and dumpped that into the 430N (erasing the original FAVS folder)