Garmin GPI (Points of Interest)
Open BetaGarmin GPI è il formato di database dei POI per i dispositivi GPS Garmin. Il contenitore .gpi non è documentato; lo standard di correttezza di fatto è il writer gpsbabel ottenuto tramite reverse engineering, che non è incluso nell'immagine del worker. Un file .gpi corretto è quindi attualmente irraggiungibile e l'API restituisce HTTP 501 su /api/render invece di un file danneggiato. Nel frattempo usa GPX (si apre in Garmin BaseCamp / POI Loader).
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Informazioni sul formato Garmin GPI
GPI is the container for custom points of interest on Garmin devices. Lists of cafes, fuel stations, parking or service objects are packed into it, and the navigator shows them on top of the stock map. The format is proprietary and has never been publicly documented.
That closedness is what decides how the file is built. There is only one practical benchmark of correctness — the writer from GPSBabel, recovered by reverse engineering; home-made byte writing diverges from it in the header, the nested records and the terminators, and devices reject such files. So we do not write the container ourselves: the points of your area go out as GPX, and that reference tool turns them into the .gpi.
The file carries the point features of the chosen area with their OpenStreetMap name and category: cafes, shops, pharmacies, fuel, parking, attractions. Lines and outlines are not stored — .gpi is a points format, not a map.
Names survive the trip. There is no Unicode inside a .gpi: strings are written in a single-byte code page, and a hard-coded choice would silently turn "Аптека" or "Café" into question marks. We pick the code page that fits the content of your area, and fall back to UTF-8 when one page is not enough. And there will be no empty file: if the area holds no points we say so plainly instead of handing you a technically valid .gpi that shows up as an empty list on the device.
Quale programma apre i file Garmin GPI
I seguenti programmi e applicazioni possono aprire, modificare ed elaborare i file Garmin GPI (Points of Interest) (.gpi) esportati da OSM2CDR:
Format specifications
- Proprietary format
- 2D only
- Lossless (no quality loss)
- Stores feature attributes
- Output: 1 file
- Garmin Custom POI .gpi (proprietary). Loads as Custom POIs on Garmin nuvi/zumo devices via POI Loader.
Chi usa le mappe Garmin GPI
Come esportare in Garmin GPI
Come aprire il file dopo l'esportazione
- Garmin device — put the .gpi into the Garmin/POI folder on the unit or the memory card; after a restart the points show up in the custom POI section.
- Garmin BaseCamp — opens the .gpi directly: the points are visible on the map, and from there you can send them to a connected device.
- Garmin POI Loader (free, Windows and macOS) — if you want to move the points onto the device together with your own icons and proximity alerts.
- The easiest way to inspect the contents on a computer is to convert it back: gpsbabel -i garmin_gpi -f poi.gpi -o gpx -F poi.gpx gives you the list of points with their names.
- If you need a map with roads and routing rather than a list of points, that is the neighbouring format — Garmin IMG.
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