Uh, what you have posted there about "points of interest" is not the same as "waypoints".
A "waypoint" is a position fix that you create - either on the device itself, or on BaseCamp or MapSource and then load into the device. You can navigate to, from, or through waypoints.
A "point of interest" is a position fix for some type of item - almost always speed cameras, but it could be campgrounds, or your favourite brand of gas station, or Starbucks locations. These items will appear on the device display screen when they come into view, and you can choose to be alerted to them when you are approaching them, but you cannot use them for navigation purposes. In other words, you can't route to or from them, and you can't look them up on your device.
The other disadvantage associated with "points of interest" is that you have to manually create them as latitude / longitude fixes, and then put them into a spreadsheet format to enable them to be imported by the POI Manager. If you are obtaining a list of POIs from another source (e.g. motorcycle dealership list, speed camera list, campsite list, etc.) this is no problem, but it's a major job if you want to create your own list.
Michael
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