Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.
FME reads from and writes to Garmin Points of Interest (POI) files. Garmin POI files are CSV files with a fixed schema; these files can be imported into Garmin GPS devices.
Note: To use FME to translate to or from this format, you may need to install GPSBabel. GPSBabel is a free tool for converting between various GPS formats. Download GPSBabel from http://www.gpsbabel.org.
Reader Overview
FME considers a single Garmin POI file to be a dataset.
Each dataset consists of features with point geometry, and uses the LL84 coordinate system.
Writer Overview
The dataset is the destination filename. The feature type of each dataset is the filename.
The Garmin POI writer will only write data in decimal degrees (WGS84 datum). All features passed to the writer will be reprojected to LL84 (EPSG:4326) if this functionality is licensed. Features with no coordinate system are assumed to be in LL84.
The Garmin POI writer uses a fixed schema.
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