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POI in PNA/PND

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Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) or Personal Navigation Assistants (PNAs) usually support user defined Points of Interest (POIs). A common format to store this information, is described below:

POI

Path to user defined POIs

\backup\user.upoi or \MobileNavigator\save\user.upoi is the path you see if you insert the SD-card into a card reader. From within the PNA/PND, the pay may read \SDMMC\MobileNavigator\save\user.upoi.

Format of user defined POIs

ID|Folder1.Folder2.F...|Name|Icon|Latitude|Longitude|Country|unknown1|zip|City|Street|Number|Information|Phone

ID

Number, i.e. 1, 2, 3, ... Don't know if they have to be in sequence, but the numbers may include gaps like “1, 2, 3, 10,13,15,100”.

Folder

Sample @My POI.Folder.SubFolder.SubSub.... Don't know the limit for nesting levesls and don't know the @-codes for all folders.

Name

A user defined name for that location

Icon

type or type.subtype

I didn't figure out all icon names. Names include for instance

  • empty string (the folder icon is used by default)
  • accomodation
  • airport
  • business
  • car_rental
  • communication
  • community
  • contacts
  • finance
  • leisure
  • medical
  • my POI
  • nature
  • parking
  • petrol_station
  • restaurant
  • shopping
  • sport
  • tourist_attractions
  • tourist_attractions.winery
  • transport

Latitude

Latitude in decimal with “.” as decimal separator and west coordinates as negative numbers.

Longitude

Longitude in decimal with “.” as decimal separator and south coordinates as negative numbers.

Country

Country name in English abbreviated by 3 characters and prefixed by “_”:

  • _AUT Austria
  • _FRA France
  • _GBR United Kingdom
  • _GER Germany
  • _ITA Italy
  • _SUI Switzerland

Unknown1

usually empty

Zip

5 digit zip

City

City, state

Street

Street name

Number

House number

Extra

Extra information text, e.g an URL

Phone

Phone number

Favorites and Pins

I only found binary files to save favorites and pins.

Track

Path to recorded Tracks

\MobileNavigator\save\TRACKS\track001.trk or \backup\TRACKS\track000.trk are binary files, but you can export the track to \tracks\Route.000.gpx.