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[Grey Wolf and Wild Rice]

Is there a way to clear the current waypoints in the GPS during a download of waypoints from GSAK without doing a delete from the GPS....like I could do with my old Magellan.

[LucidOndine]

Not that I'm aware of. The only way to do this is to delete existing ones and resend.

I haven't looked into this too closely, but if all other identifiers are equal (name, symbol) it might overwrite the existing waypoint.
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[celticwulf]

[Grey Wolf and Wild Rice]

[TimbreWlf]

With my Garmin Venture I would use the "delete all by icon" (or whatever the actual menu item was) to clear out old caches before loading new ones. Anything I wanted to keep in the system perpetually (like my own caches) would have an obscure icon so I wouldn't delete them. It made it just a little easier.
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[pfalstad]

[GeoPierce]

[LucidOndine]

After playing with my GPSr last night, I confirmed GeoPierce's claim.
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[bflentje]

[Arcticabn]

I tend to go the other route. Using GSAK, I'll download what's in my GPSr to one directory and the new gpx into another directory. Then I'll copy and merge them together. That way any updates to an existing waypoint are captured. They upload them back to the GPSr.

I also agree. Change the icon for those waypoint you don't want to erase from the GPSr and then use the delete by symbol function.
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[Marsha and Silent Bob]

I have many people's homes and my wife's workplace in my GPS. I mark those as "Residence" and then just delete all the "Geocache Found" and "Unfound" from the GPS before doing an upload.
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[celticwulf]

[LucidOndine]

I use the delete by symbol, but I categorize the type of caches using different waypoint symbols. It makes it a pain to delete all the categories, but its what I've been doing.
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[MNMizzou]

I just got a new 60Cx for X-mas, very cool toy! Something I've considered doing is putting places I want to "keep" such as home, work, etc. into the unit as "Points of Interest"

From what I've learned about them it sounds like they are stored in a separate area of the memory, if that makes any sense. It looks like Garmin has links to different companies that work with POI's as they are called. A lot of them are European in nature, but there is one company that you can buy different POI sets and another that has software to create your own POI's. Both look very useful. The one has POI's like all NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL arenas and stadiums. Each league is only $1.00 For me shooting sports out of town that is the best 4 bucks spent! It looked like they had all kinds of different stores restaurants, even one list of POI's that is nothing but gentleman's clubs. (Cause you know someone was bound to do it)

Anyone know more about the POI's vs. Waypoints. Typically if I'm on the road I'll try to load caches in that are near the hotel or stadium or places I know I'll be. Because I'm lazy on my old GPS I'd just blow out all the other waypoints and load in the new city. With the POI's I'm thinking I can blow out waypoints and be able to keep my "permanent" waypoints like home work etc as POI's instead. The only thing I've seen is with POI's you have to upload them all at once, meaning if you add some POI's later you have to make sure your old ones are still on your PC in the same file as your new ones, as it runs over the memory entirely.

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