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The more I use Maemo Mapper the more uses I find for it.
Today I was taking the bus to a place I had never been to before and didn't know exactly where to get off. I had already downloaded maps for the area and got a good GPS signal next to the window - and was able to get off at a stop really close to my destination

BUT. I am very confused when it comes to how to work with POI's in MM.

I have two 'needs' for POIs:

A) Geo-caching locations as POIs
When downloading .loc files from geocaching.com.
I know how to 'export' this .loc file to a .db file that I can import into MM. That works well.

B) Addresses I'm going to
Often I'm going to an address that is new to me and it would be great to be able to easily create a POI for that in MM.


Questions:
1) My understanding is that MM only uses ONE POI file (the one you define in the settings). When downloading more .loc files and converting them to .db files is there any way that these files can be combined? Right now I have to change the POI file every time I want to look up another geo-cache location. I'd love to have a POI file that contains a lot of them.

2) How on earth do I add an address as a POI? Or is that even the best way to do it? I don't need to create a route to it...I just need a 'pin' on the map I can have the map 'go to' like you 'go to nearest POI'.
Plus: Same question here: If I want to ADD a new POI/address how do I do that without losing the existing ones?

Thanks in advance!
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