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Chapter 18: magellan roadmate poi manager, 5 creating a new poi file, 6 adding individual poi’s – Magellan RoadMate 6000T User Manual

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Chapter 18: Magellan RoadMate POI Manager

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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 Magellan RoadMate 6000T.

When you have finished copying files, remove the USB cable from the Magellan RoadMate 6000T.

18.5 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.

18.6 Adding Individual POI’s

Click on the

New POI File

Button to launch the POI Editor.

Click on the

Add

button

.

Enter the Name, the Latitude, and the Longitude. The Altitude and Description fields are optional.