POI/GPX and viewing it on Garmin GPSmap 62s

[Citizen Gold]

Hey all,

In invercargill at the moment. Final day at this location with it
being a resupply base. Moving on to Queesntown next. I have to say,
the trail down here is crowded. :) Have bumped into, or almost bumped
into, 5 others on it (4 north bound and one south bound.)

Anyway, my experiences with the trail are on the site at
http://intentionallyhomeless.org if you're interested.

So, a few of these experiences have me wanting to get the trail onto
the GPS. I've gotten... lost. A few times. :/

I have a Garmin GPSmap 62s and, as far as I can tell from the
instructions around the net so far I've successfully loaded the data
to the device but can't seem to find it on the device. Does anyone
have any links to good tutorials on how to do this? Please don't
search for and post links. I've done that. Just interested in
confirmed and tested tutorials or HOWTOs.

What I've done to date:
1. Grabbed the kml file from the TAT site and converted to GPX.
2. Loaded this to the Micro SD card using BaseCamp from the Garmin
site.

This created a new file in a new directory on the card (Garmin/GPX/
userdata.gpx) This is what I'm trying to view.

I'm currently exploring options for converting the kml to a "points of
interest" file and loading that to the card using POI Loader (http://
www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=927)

Any confirmed links welcomed.

Ray Ford (currently travelling with Cheese) mentioned a TA Facebook
page with a POI file that he loaded but I've been unable to locate
this.

Regards.
Gold
Walking for Christchurch
http://intentionallyhomeless.org/

[Shane]

It might be a bit late, but I had similar problems when loading on the
GPS. We have a Garmin 78sc but had a Garmin 60csx before that (the
78sc replaces it which I dropped while sea kayaking - the 78sc
floats!) For me I found that I couldn't load all the tracks at once
with Basecamp, I think I did the South Island in two goes. I also
converted the tracks to run south to north for Jane, as well as
creating 4 combined tracks - Bluff-Greenstone, Queenstown to Ship
Cove, Wellington to Wanganui, and Wanganui to Cape Reinga. I can send
you the GPX files if you like or upload them to our website.

Shane
http://janeandshane.com/

On Jan 27, 9:11 am, Citizen Gold <g...@freelancers.net.nz> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> In invercargill at the moment.  Final day at this location with it
> being a resupply base.  Moving on to Queesntown next.  I have to say,
> the trail down here is crowded. :)  Have bumped into, or almost bumped
> into, 5 others on it (4 north bound and one south bound.)
>

> Anyway, my experiences with the trail are on the site athttp://intentionallyhomeless.orgif you're interested.