It's not to hard to manually add waypoints from a .gpx file. It was easy to create a Perl script to process the .gpx format into the .storage format below.
Plug the unit into a computer using the USB cable.
Look for MN6\Settings\Favorites.storage and open it in a text editor
You will see entries like below, except that they usually have more information. The below is an example of the bare minimum that is required, a waypoint name, lat and lon. For each waypoint, modify the line below with the appropriate information and add it to the file
You can insert the information manually if you have a few waypoints or create a script to help automate the process.
I don't know why, but the format seems to require the [0][17] and the 49 at the end.
As always, make a backup before editing files like this...
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Plug the unit into a computer using the USB cable.
Look for MN6\Settings\Favorites.storage and open it in a text editor
You will see entries like below, except that they usually have more information. The below is an example of the bare minimum that is required, a waypoint name, lat and lon. For each waypoint, modify the line below with the appropriate information and add it to the file
You can insert the information manually if you have a few waypoints or create a script to help automate the process.
I don't know why, but the format seems to require the [0][17] and the 49 at the end.
[DC-WhiteHouse||][0][17]|||-77.0366092|38.8976493||||||||||||||||49
As always, make a backup before editing files like this...