It goes without saying that POI's are also points and are generally supplied by the manufacturer. They have a different name (not called waypoints) because they are stored in a different memory area than waypoints and may have more memory allocated per point for longer names and additional information such as addresses and phone numbers. The 'searching' function in the GPS receiver is a bit different for the different types of points. The 'searching' function may be done by category in the GPS receiver (and the manufacturer's supporting software). The manufacturers haven't supplied software for users to make their own POI's. And it's unlikely the manufacturer's supporting software will let you edit the POI data to make corrections or additions. However; like uploading maps, there is a user effort to write software programs to allow users to upload their own POI's.

On the Garmin GPSmap 76 with some Metroguide version 4 data loaded and some Topo data loaded, the 'Points' menu consists of:

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'Points of Interest' is further subdivided into:

And the subdivisions may also be further divided. For instance 'Food & Drink' is subdivided into:

POIs are either built into the receiver or transferred to the receiver from the manufacturer's software. You don't transfer POI's from the receiver to your software. Waypoints can be transferred both ways. A GPS receiver that only supports 1,000 waypoints can have hundreds of thousands of POIs.

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