Points of Interest (POI) Questions

[Brett Bartick]

1. Is there anyway to add a POI via GPS Coordinates? Similar to the functionality of adding a waypoint.

2. Can you change a POI icon after the POI was created?

3. Can you move (or drag) a POI to a new location?

Thank you,
Brett

[Rainer Treichel]

Enter GPS Coordinates into search field or get them from google maps or earth.
Set a point in the map.
Goto the second tab in POI
Start POI Generation an point klick on the point in your map

[Brett Bartick]

I'm not understanding what you are saying. Are you saying to

1. Use GPS coordinates to create a waypoint.
2. Create your POI by clicking on the waypoint?

When you click on the "waypoint", the various options for the "waypoint" are displayed. Obviously, I can "click", close to the "waypoint", but that isn't creating my POI with the GPS coordinates I wanted.

I'm still not seeing how I can move a POI I created or even change the POI's icon.

[Leike Lodiers]

1. Yes just copy the coordinates to the search bar on youre route.
   2.Yep just drag it around with you're mouse and place it where you want to.
   3.yes you can ad a icon to you're waypoint by clicking on waypoint in the left side bar (red circle)and then choose you're waypoint and click on the icon (red arrow).:

[Brian McG]

Hi @Brett-Bartick POI's are a fairly limited in MRA so to answer your questions

1. you can find the location by entering the GPS coordinates into the search bar, this will attempt to create a waypoint at this location which is not what you are after, so you have to cancel or delete the waypoint & as @Rainer-Treichel suggests go to the POI Manage tab & add the POI manually

2. I do not believe so, the icon is decided on creation

3. No there is no "Move" function associated with POI like there is with waypoints

IMO if you want to create a library of POI's you are better doing this in Google My Maps
You can then export your list of POI's as a CSV & import that into the MRA POI Library tab

In Google My Maps you could have a layer for Hotels, a layer for mountain passes, a layer for restraunts etc
Each layer can be exported as a CSV & imported into MRA & each layer then is a collection of points in your MRA library.

You can choose/change/edit the icon on each MRA collection/set of points

It is not ideal as you have the usual issue with MRA not displaying POI till zoomed in
With the Library & Managed POI the zoom level is 10km
Plus you have to manually keep updating / uploading your MRA library, I tend to update my MRA library points about once a year

[white.mouse]

@Brett-Bartick said in Points of Interest (POI) Questions:

I'm not understanding what you are saying. Are you saying to

1. Use GPS . . . .

Well, It's quite simple.

• Go to the menu item "Points Of Interest"
• select the second tab (in Dutch this is "beheren", I don't know the English term, it might be "Manage")
• just do what it says in the description and click on "toevoegen". I think it says "Add" in English.
• Now click on the map at the location of the POI, give it a name and a symbol and the POI is shown on the map.

Het is redelijk simpel.

• ga naar de menu optie "points of interest"
• kies voor de tweede tab (in het Nederlands is dit "beheren", ik weet de Engelse term niet, mogelijk "manage")
• doe gewoon wat er dan in de beschrijving staat en klik op "toevoegen". Ik denk dat hier in het Engels "Add" zal staan.
• Klik nu op de kaart op de positie voor de POI, geeft deze vervolgens een naam en symbool en je hebt de POI zichtbaar op de kaart