Author Topic: Extremely Cool! Downloadable GPS Off-road POIs FREE (Read 14813 times)

Oz · « **on:** January 08, 2009, 07:01:10 PM »

As some of you may know I recently got the Kenwood DNX-5120 DVD Navigation Receiver. I love it!

But what's really cool is that I went to this site; Fun Treks (props to Creek and Paul), and downloaded for free, ALL the POI (Points Of Interest) off-road trails for Southern California, converted that file using Garmin's POI Loader (available here) and uploaded those POIs to my DNX 5120. It works really great! Can't wait to use it. 433 POIs!!!! Works with all Garmins and Fun Treks has maps for pretty much everywhere across the country.

Paul · « **Reply #1 on:** January 08, 2009, 08:34:12 PM »

Those are the POI's from the Wells books that I posted last month. If you hunt around you can find other custom POI's - I've loaded all the water national locations and ham radio repeaters in SoCal.

r6ryder · « **Reply #2 on:** January 15, 2009, 11:19:26 AM »

Quote from: Oz on January 08, 2009, 07:01:10 PM

As some of you may know I recently got the Kenwood DNX-5120 DVD Navigation Receiver. I love it!

But what's really cool is that I went to this site; Fun Treks (props to Creek and Paul), and downloaded for free, ALL the POI (Points Of Interest) off-road trails for Southern California, converted that file using Garmin's POI Loader (available here) and uploaded those POIs to my DNX 5120. It works really great! Can't wait to use it. 433 POIs!!!! Works with all Garmins and Fun Treks has maps for pretty much everywhere across the country.

very nice.. thanks OZ. I have the same unit so this should be a great addition to my system.

quick question, did the update slow your GPS system down?

Paul · « **Reply #3 on:** January 15, 2009, 07:43:35 PM »

Berdoo Canyon #75 is my first chance to use these.

SuperSlideStyle · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2009, 07:55:04 AM »

Hey Paul, I've noticed you got a nice GPS, and I'd like to get one as well with my tax return but I'm not sure what to look for, what features and what this GPS POI's are. Can you enlighten me a bit more?

Oz · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2009, 09:24:32 AM »

Quote from: r6ryder on January 15, 2009, 11:19:26 AM

Quote from: Oz on January 08, 2009, 07:01:10 PM
As some of you may know I recently got the Kenwood DNX-5120 DVD Navigation Receiver. I love it!

But what's really cool is that I went to this site; Fun Treks (props to Creek and Paul), and downloaded for free, ALL the POI (Points Of Interest) off-road trails for Southern California, converted that file using Garmin's POI Loader (available here) and uploaded those POIs to my DNX 5120. It works really great! Can't wait to use it. 433 POIs!!!! Works with all Garmins and Fun Treks has maps for pretty much everywhere across the country.

very nice.. thanks OZ. I have the same unit so this should be a great addition to my system.

quick question, did the update slow your GPS system down?

Havent noticed any slow down - just an annoying 'speed alert 4mph' whenever a POI was close by. It was pretty where i found to disable that alert.

Paul · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2009, 06:52:56 PM »

Quote from: superslidestyle on February 05, 2009, 07:55:04 AM

Hey Paul, I've noticed you got a nice GPS, and I'd like to get one as well with my tax return but I'm not sure what to look for, what features and what this GPS POI's are. Can you enlighten me a bit more?

I have two - a Garmin 660 which does the turn-by-turn thing, traffic updates, bluetooth and all that other around town requirements.

The big one was actually a Dell Mini 9 laptop on a mount running DeLorme Topo USA V7 with a matching USB GPS antenna. I bought the $40 a year subscription so I can download "Google Map"-like satellite photos of the trails too.

fino · « **Reply #7 on:** June 18, 2009, 05:51:40 PM »

How do you uplaod info to your 5120, I can't figure it out?

SuperSlideStyle · « **Reply #8 on:** June 18, 2009, 10:00:14 PM »

How much was the Kenwood unit? How much should I expect to pay to have it installed? What other equipment is needed to hook up the navigation? Can you add a backup camera? I would love to add one to my X. I got used to it since my Nissan Murano has one.

Brian (#2) · « **Reply #9 on:** July 26, 2009, 09:18:13 AM »

Thanks for the Garmin POI link. I knew about Wells' coordinates but I couldn't figure out how to load them up to my GPS unit until I saw this. I have an older unit that is discontinued so I thought it was just its limitations. I was playing around with it this morning and got Area 8 loaded in no problem. However, it would not accept the entire So Cal series for some reason, so I had to upload them individually.

We did Blair Valley yesterday just using the odometer and it worked fine, but this will be a bonus. My navigator/DJ (wife) has a big problem with reading maps and figuring out where we are spatially so this will help.

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