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Chapter 13: magellan roadmate poi manager – Magellan ROADMATE 860T User Manual

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Chapter 13: Magellan RoadMate POI Manager

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13.4 Opening a POI File

When you start the POI Manager the contents of your “My POI’s” folder will be displayed. This is the default location for
storing custom POI files.

Locate the POI files you wish to load. When you have selected a file, the Copy To Unit arrow will turn green. Click on the
arrow to copy the file to your unit.

When you have finished copying files, remove the USB cable from the unit.

13.5 Creating a New POI FIle

There are two ways to create a POI file. You can either add POI’s individually, or you can import a character delimited file
containing the information need to plot the POI’s. To plot a POI, each item must have a name, longitude, and latitude.
Longitude and latitude must be in decimal format.

13.6 Adding Individual POI’s

Click on the

New POI File

Button to launch the POI Editor.