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Originally Posted by Daze55556
I am a complete novice at GPS, I have just bought a Zumo 660. I have downloaded the OSM map for Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia.
If I want to download Waypoints I save them in a separate file to the OSM map which is on an SD card? Are the Waypoints completely independent of the map?
If I get rid of the 'current' file will I lose all my current POIs related to my Europe or Australia Garmin maps? In short are the way points saved to the GPS itself or a SD card?
I may not be making any sense here, sorry just trying to get my head around it!
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My experience is that the best way to do it is to load them as POIs on the Zumo. That way they are saved in the POI menu in stead of the Favourites menu or as waypoints for routes. They are also persistent, even when you clear all routes, favourites, tracks, current.gpx or update or delete maps.
You can load them with the Garmin POILoader tool, but that gets a bit complicated if you want to load different sets of points.
A more manageable way to do it is to use GPSBabel. Select the source file, choose how the category needs to be called on the device, save the set as a .gpi file and copy it to the POI folder on your zumo. The main pitfalls are that you should avoid using a category name that is already in use and that you should not use a file name that is already in use as that overwrites the previous POIs.
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