Create a POI file in a text file, similar in format to the csv POI files, but this file uses two additional values to indicate proximity, and TourGuide folder name for the entry. Check that the Garmin "POI Loader" properties on your Windows desktop to ensure that the "Start in" folder is blanked out, this is important to make sure it finds the "Data" folder when loading POIs.ģ. Sound activation requires a proximity to be specified.Ĭode: Please Login or Register to see the linksthe POI Converter JavaScript make the creation of the gpx file very easy.Ģ.
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The POI file must be in gpx format, not csv, and does not require "TourGuide" to be part of the file name, but see below how to create TourGuides in csv-like text files and then easily convert to gpx format. Sound files must contain the case sensitive "TourGuide" text as part of the sound file name. In units that include an mp3 player, TourGuide sound may be stopped and replayed, wav files play whole from start to finish. TourGuides is NOT a routing feature, for that you need Routes functionality, so your TourGuide is a touristic kind of TourGuide
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To use TourGuide sound files in nuvi units that do not has an mp3 player, sound files must be wav format, 16 bit, mono, and you must use POI Loader 2.5.2, and you need to install a sox utility for POI Loader to verify the wav files. For example, it can be used to only specify icons per entry, or images per entry, just sound files, or any combination of the above. TourGuides do not require all 3 types of files (icon, image, and sound). With POI alerts, the sound applies to all the waypoints contained in one file, not to specific ones, and there is no control to pause the sound file, as the POI alert is typically short, where the TourGuide one tends to be much longer. TourGuides are different to POI alerts, in that the association of the sound or icon is done at the Waypoint level, not at the file level. This is done by associating a sound file (wav, or mp3 some units) and/or an icon (bmp) and/or an image (jpg) with particular Waypoint entries. (by lschwabe) TourGuide functionality will basically play automatically the sound or narrative associated with a given Waypoint (or Point of Interest-POI) when you are within a certain radius of it, it also allows you to see a picture or read the descriptive text related to that point. How to create TourGuides for Garmin nuvi models.
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