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  • 04/17/2008 at 11:20 pm #1726393
    djwini

      did i read once that there was a way to do something (poi?) to put the complete hint into the data field on the screen of my gps? i am wanting to by-pass the limitation garmin has that isn’t letting me show enough text.

      04/18/2008 at 9:37 pm #1887994
      furfool

        I’m not sure, but it would be nice. I can only fill about half of the screen, maybe a little less.

        04/20/2008 at 3:50 am #1887995
        stumbleweeder

          I have the hint on my legend hcx. %hint in one of the boxes on your export to mapsource (if you use mapsource and gsak) I cant remember which one. Only thing is you have to send to gps with mapsource, not gsak. I think I sent it with gsak once but I had to change settings. If you cant figure it out pm me and I’ll figure out how I did it.

          04/20/2008 at 3:53 am #1887996
          stumbleweeder

            I guess I should have read all the logs. I can’t load the whole hint either. I’m going to try to change the # of characters . I haven’t tried that

            04/20/2008 at 4:21 am #1887997
            stumbleweeder

              I changed my export to %hint=100 it seems to depend on the length of the words sometimes I get the whole hint, other times I get cut short.

              04/20/2008 at 5:49 am #1887998
              hogrod

                @djwini wrote:

                did i read once that there was a way to do something (poi?) to put the complete hint into the data field on the screen of my gps? i am wanting to by-pass the limitation garmin has that isn’t letting me show enough text.

                Yes there is a way to get a bit more info into each waypoint, but you need a garmin X model handheld. This is because you need the card slot to load the waypoints as custom POI files to the data card.

                If I remember correctly on my 60Cx can store 1000 normal waypoints that have a 14character name and 30 character note VS a unlimited custom POI can have a 44character name and 88 character note. Another nice advantage you can organize your custom POIs by category’s with a custom icon for each category.

                I won’t go into to much detail in this post but here is the basics of how I use custom POIs….

                I use this Gsak macro to export my waypoints: GarminCsvPoiExport 1.8 By ProsperoDK
                http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=3172&st=0&#entry32637

                I then use garmins POI loader software to load my files to my gps.
                http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/

                Here is some more info about custom POIs
                http://www.gpsinformation.org/penrod/poiloader/poiloader.html

                04/21/2008 at 9:29 pm #1887999
                djwini

                  yes thanks, that is exactly what i was looking for. now i have to go home and see if i can get it to work.
                  donna

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