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POI adding to Primo 2.0 file system

Sat Nov 28, 2015 6:21 am

I am currently considering the purchase of a replacement Nav unit for my 2011 GMC truck. The 'Car Show CS-GM1210-US' is the unit and it is distributed out of Washington as well as Amazon. The unit is not cheap. It comes with IGo Primo 2.0 and is sold as a direct replacement for the factory unit. So, IGo is being sold in North America to many people who are not impressed with the factory offerings from GM and others. I am hesitant to purchase it until I know that I can add in poi files that I have created for my convenience. I have these files in a Kenwood unit that has Garmin gps so, the files are .csv files. Does anyone know if I can get these files into the poi folder/files/my categories system used by IGo. I have been reading for a few days on a few forums to try to find out if there is a way to convert the .csv files to .poi files as used by IGo but, I am not finding any useful information. Some information leads me to believe that the IGo unit can use .csv files but, I have not read any verification of this or found any tutorials on the process. Does anyone here have positive methods of achieving my goals?

Re: POI adding to Primo 2.0 file system

Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:36 am

I don't know if .csv is supported at all, but .kml files are. So what you need is

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On this forum is surely some information about how to use .kml in igo/primo

Re: POI adding to Primo 2.0 file system

Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:16 pm

Thanks for the reply,

I will continue to search for more info on editing the IGo files. I believe I can edit the branding.zip file with WinRAR and that should be where the poi file folders are located and that may be where I need to add the kml files. I have several thousand poi's in about a dozen categories that I want to add. I don't have the nav unit yet so I must do all this on the laptop and then hope it works on the unit.

Re: POI adding to Primo 2.0 file system

Sat Nov 28, 2015 6:24 pm

Fyi, the GPS app and data are stored internally on that unit and there is no way to access the internal GPS files directly, so this is probably not possible.
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