• if you select a POI out of MRA internal POI-List - and insert it to your route in first step, just only as POI
  at this point, you have 2 options: insert as POI and /or insert as route point
• or if you create your own POI in the route
  at this point, you have only 1 option: insert as POI
  there is later one no way, to tap it again in the map, to make it additionally as route point

@Corjan-Meijerink ...may could you please improve this inadequacy?

Thanks for the answers.

• If you have a route, you can open via left side menue the internal POI section and select a POI category - may a Coffee shop. If you are zooming into the map, icons of this POI category will appear on map - and you can see, if in the preferred area, such a POI is close to your route.

If you click on such an icon in map, you will be asked by popup window, if you simply want to add this POI as only POI to your route - or if you want to add it as POI AND as route point.
As only POI, it will be visible only in the map and in the manageable list.
As POI AND route point, it will be visible in the map as POI (and in manageable list) as well as route point, included in the route and route point list.

If you transmit it via gpx 1.1 to garmin, the file includes POI, route with route points and track with track points. And Garmin will import all (POI as favorite).

• If you have a route, you can open via left side menue the internal POI section and in the tab "manage" you can enter your own POI, selected by position in the map. But unfortunately thus will only be a POI in map - no way to include it as route point. If you need it also as route point - in this procedure, you need to enter a route point manually nearby.

In all 3 options:

1. POI selected from internal POI section
2. POI selected from internal POI section, incl. set as route point
3. POI created manually
   every time, the POI will be transmitted to Garmin-XT into favorites. The route will not include it (only in case 2), but in your scenario- you can stop navigation, select the POI out of favorites and let garmin navigate to.

If you are transferring this route by gpx file to your Garmin, you will get the route point (visible as flag icon) and a POI on map and in list (visible as heart icon).

Till now, I allways create in basecamp Points with the exacte coördinaten as in MRA. Export from MRA, import in Basecamp. The via points in the route are recognized and included in the route (so POI is same as via Point). In Basecamp I've everything of a trip in a folder (POI with reference to order POI's in favorites in Garmin), which I export to Garmin. So I get, track, route, POI's at once.

Therefore you have to add POI's to your route in MRA

If you look at a route imported from MRA to Basecamp it looks like this

When you open the route it looks like this.

So the Via points (Flags) and shaping points are there but they are embedded in the route and are not available to automatically be transferred to favourites on the XT.

Volgens mij heb ik hier heel lang geleden ook om verzocht (om dezelfde reden) en is het (nog) niet mogelijk.