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Custom POIs for Kenwood Devices

Points of Interest (POIs) are already included in the maps on your Kenwood device, but additional POIs can also be installed using a program called POI Loader. You may install custom POIs you have made or collections you have downloaded from a website or received from another user.

You will need either an SD Card or USB Flash Drive to use custom POIs with a Kenwood device. This will vary by system. Consult your owner's manual to find out which media to use.

1. To Prepare and Load the Files:

Windows

To Prepare the Blank SD Card or USB Flash Drive: 

1. Insert blank SD Card or USB Flash Drive into your computer

2. Open the blank SD card or USB Flash Drive on your computer

3. Create a folder and name it Garmin on the blank SD card or USB Flash Drive

4. Double-click the Garmin folder to open it

5. Create a second folder within the Garmin folder and name it POI

Use Garmin POI Loader to load the custom POIs to the SD card or USB Flash Drive once it has been prepared. See Points of Interest (POI) Loader for more info.

To Load the Files Using Garmin POI Loader:

1. Open Garmin POI Loader

2. Click Next

3. Click Computer as your Save Option

4. Click Next 

5. Click Browse and select the location of the newly created POI folder from the above steps

6. Click Next

7. Click Browse to locate and select the folder containing your custom POI file

8. Name the newly created custom POI file "POI"

9. Leave the other two options at their default settings

10. Click Next

11. Click Finish

12. Safely eject the SD Card or USB Flash Drive from your computer before disconnecting it 

After loading the custom POI files to the SD Card or USB Flash Drive, they will need to be added to the Kenwood Device.

Mac

To Prepare the SD Card or USB Drive: 

1. Insert the SD card or USB Flash Drive into your computer

2. Open the SD Card or USB Flash Drive on your computer

3. Create a folder and name it Garmin on the SD card or USB Flash Drive 

4. Open the Garmin folder

5. Create a second folder within the Garmin folder and name it POI 

 

Use Garmin POI Loader to load the custom POIs to the SD card or USB Flash Drive once it has been prepared. See Points of Interest (POI) Loader for more info.

To Load the Files Using Garmin POI Loader:

1. Open Garmin POI Loader

2. Select Load new custom POIs onto your device or computer 

3. Click Continue 

4. Click Browse to locate and select the folder containing your custom POI file

5. Click Continue 

6. Click Save to Computer as your storage location from the drop-down menu  

7. Name the newly created custom POI file "POI"  

8. Click Continue 

9. Select the location of the newly created POI folder on the SD card or USB Flash Drive  

10. Click Open

11. Click Continue

12. Click Done

13. Safely eject the SD card or USB Flash Drive from your computer before disconnecting it 

After loading the custom POI files to the SD card or USB Flash Drive, they will need to be added to the Kenwood Device. 

2. To Add the Custom POI Files to the Kenwood Device: 

1. Ensure the Kenwood device is on one of the navigation screens 

2. Insert the SD card or USB flash drive into the Kenwood device

3. Follow the onscreen prompts to copy the POIs to the Kenwood device

The custom POIs will now be installed on the Kenwood device.

3. To View the Custom POI Files:

1. Touch Where To? 

2. Touch Categories 

    • Touch Extras on some devices

3. Select one of the custom POI categories 

The device will now display the custom POIs in order of proximity.

You can save Custom Points of Interest (POIs) to your Saved or Favorites list instead of the Custom POI folder under Extras. 

To Save POIs to a Kenwood Device:

  1. Start with the Kenwood device on the Navigation screen
  2. Insert media (SD Card or USB Flash Drive) with the preloaded POIs
    • If the device requires a USB Flash Drive, select No to the option to install to internal memory
  3. Touch Where To?
  4. Touch Extras
  5. Touch Custom POI's
  6. Touch POI file
  7. Touch the desired waypoint
  8. The location will display on the map, Touch Save
  9. Touch OK
  10. Touch the back arrow and repeat steps 7-9 to add all the desired waypoints to your Saved or Favorites

The POIs will now be added to your Saved or Favorites.

To Remove Custom POIs from a Kenwood Device:

  1. Touch Tools or Apps
  2. Touch My Data
  3. Touch Delete Custom POIs
  4. Touch Yes to confirm

All Custom POIs will now be deleted out of the Kenwood navigation.

Note: Each time a new Custom POI file is imported into the navigation system, all other Custom POIs already saved will be overwritten.

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