Garmin Points of Interest. This format can. This format has the following options alerts, bitmap, category, hide, descr, notes, position, proximity, sleep, speed, unique, units. The format garmingpi supports the binary POI. Garmin GPS receivers. See garminpoi for additional information about Garmins own Poiloader program. Garmin POI Loader is the standard application that creates GPI files. The layout of GPI files isnt documented and our module was created. If you get a problem on reading or writing. GPI file, please provide that file mailto gpsbabel misclists. At this time we dont support special features as Tour Guide or links. Creation timestamp issue See the option sleep This module does not support direct transfer of. GPI files to. receivers in Garmin protocol mode. For units like Nuvi, Zumo, or. Streetpilot, just choose a file thats on the drive where your. GPS is mounted. For units like the X series GPSMap 6. CSx, GPSMap 6. 0Cx, Legend Hcx, etc. Example 3. 9.  Command showing garmingpi output example. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,categoryNice Restaurants,bitmaprestaurant. F My Points. gpi. Enable alerts on speed or proximity distance. Because speed isnt a real member of a normal waypoint, you can put the speed values into. Point3. 0 will result in a speed value of 3. By default we assume these. This is just the main ExtraPOIEditor. Set POI Distance, Convert GPS File Format. GPI file. Learn here what the. GPI file is, and what program you need to open or convert the. GPI file. Specifications for the. GPI file format and downloadable sample. Proximity distance is also supported by GPX, Garmin GDB, OZI Explorer. Compe. GPS and Universal CSV. F warnings. gpi. Use specified bitmap on output. The bitmap BMP should be 2. RGB colors 2. 4 and 3. If youre starting from images in another format, you may need to. Gimp or Image. Magicks convert to get the imaga. Unsupported color. MapSource.jpg' alt='Garmin Poi Loader' title='Garmin Poi Loader' />Convert Gpi FileNot all devices can support all color depths. GPSBabel and its. It was reported. that a Nuvi 3. POIs only if they use 8. BPP. A color value of 0x. FF0. 0FF blue2. Magenta, can be used for transparent areas. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,bitmaptux. F My Points. gpi. Default category on output. Ghajini Tamil Movie Songs. With this option you can specify the category which is primary. My points. gpsbabel i gpx f My Points. Best Restaurants F My Points. Dont show gpi bitmap on device. For a large list of points or whyever it can be useful when. With this option no bitmap. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,hide F My Points. Write description to address field. The GPI address field is often visible in lists on the device. Use this. option if you want to see the waypoint description which can be an address too. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,descr F My Points. Write notes to address field. The GPI address field is often visible in lists on the device. Use this. option if you want to see the waypoint notes which can be an address too. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,notes F My Points. Write position to address field. The GPI address field is often visible in lists on the device. Use this. option if you want to see the waypoint position coordinates in this lists. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,position F My Points. Default proximity. When no proximity data is available in the source input, GPSBabel uses this as the default proximity value. The parameter has to be in meters, or, when unitss specified, in miles. Example 3. 1. 0.  Read GPX file, create GPI to alert when youre 12 mile from a speed camera. Speed. Cameras. gpx o garmingpi,unitss,proximity0. F Speed. Cameras. Its also possible to append a specific distance unit to the parameter. Speed. Cameras. gpx o garmingpi,proximity5. F Speed. Cameras. Table 3. 2.  Supported distance units garmingpiUnit. Descriptionfa. Fathomsfeet. Feetft. Feetkm. Kilometersm. Metersmi. Milesnm. Nautical miles. After output job done sleep n seconds. The Garmin units seem to use the creation timestamp of GPI files for internal purposes. In other words, if you load GPI files with same creation timestamp on your device. POIs. With the sleep option, GPSBabel waits a given. GPI file was written. In the normal case of using GPSBabel from the command line or from the GUI, the chance of creating files. ZERO. In scripts or batch files where you are writing multiple files even from different GPSBabel instances the odds of this happening is rather good. The sleep option forces GPSBabel to wait after creating a file to ensure the timestamps are unique. Values are specified in seconds and can be 1 or more. Speed. Cameras. gpx o garmingpi,sleep1 F Speed. Cameras. gpi. Default speed. When no speed data is available in the source input, GPSBabel uses this as the default speed value. The parameter has to be in kilometers per hour, or, when unitss specified. Speed. Cameras. gpx o garmingpi,unitss,speed3. F Speed. Cameras. Its also possible to append a specific speed unit to the parameter. Speed. Cameras. gpx o garmingpi,speed3. F Speed. Cameras. Table 3. 3.  Supported speed units garmingpiUnit. Descriptionkmh. Kilometers per hourkmh. Kilometers per hourkph. Kilometers per hourkt. Knotsknot. Knotsms. Meters per secondmps. Meters per secondmih. Miles per hour. Create unique waypoint names default yes. Dont create unique names sample. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,unique0 F My Points. Units used for names with speed statute or metric. Sample command tells GPSBabel to handle speed values in miles per hour. My Points. gpx o garmingpi,unitss F My Points.