POIs - where have you gone?
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After many cups of tea and experiments, I think I have worked out why my POIs for more distant locations seem to have disappeared, so in case anyone else is struggling with this…
As far as I can tell, it doesn’t matter how many POIs are loaded to the watch (V2), only the 16 nearest to current location are displayed. This makes it difficult to set up POIs in anticipation of travelling to a distant area - although they are listed in the app, and watch, they are not visible on the watch-map until you get there (app shows them). It would have been very useful to have found this in the User Guide.
On a related matter, routeplanner.suunto.com enables a laptop screen for planning a route and is welcome BUT there seems to be no facility for creating POIs. Please put me right if I am missing it.
On a vaguely related matter, perhaps just as a record, importing POIs from a GPX file is not as straightforward as routes and waypoints. Apparently there are alternative labels that the GPX file can hold (<sym>, <type>) to hold a code for the POI-type, so that the correct icon image is selected by the phone. There is no standard so creating a GPX outside Suunto is likely to be unsuccessful, assuming Suunto get around to letting us introduce POIs in RoutePlanner.
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@jamesGW I don’t quite understand what the problem is. What’s the point of viewing POIs halfway around the world on a tiny watch screen?