POI Converter

Extract text from POI files


Drop or upload your .POI file
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How to extract text from your POI file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your POI file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert POI to another file type

To convert your POI file to another format, you need iGO Navigation or other GIS software.

Convert a file to POI

To convert other file formats to the "GPS Data File" file type, you need software like iGO Navigation or a similar tool.


About POI files

A .POI file is primarily a Points of Interest data file used by GPS navigation systems, most notably iGO Navigation and various Android mapping tools like Locus Map. These files store lists of waypoints - restaurants, gas stations, speed cameras - containing geolocation coordinates and metadata.

The main issue with .POI files is their fragmentation. Unlike the universal GPX standard, a .POI file from an iGO device is often structurally different from one used by Magellan or the SQLite-based .POI files used by OpenAndroMaps. Because these formats are often proprietary or binary-encoded to optimize for low-power GPS hardware, you typically cannot open them in standard text editors or desktop mapping software like Google Earth Pro. They are effectively locked data silos tied to specific hardware or apps.

To view, edit, or migrate your waypoints, you generally need to convert these files. For broad compatibility, convert them to GPX (GPS Exchange Format) or KML (Keyhole Markup Language) for use in Google Maps and Earth. For editing large lists of addresses or coordinates, converting to CSV allows for easy manipulation in spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel.

Convert.Guru analyzes your POI file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted GPI, OV2, CSV, GPX, JPG, KML, PDF, JSON, JPEG, DB3, ZIP, XLSX and TXT files.


FAQ

If you want to convert POI file to GPX, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use iGO Navigation or similar software from the "Navigation Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to POI, try iGO Navigation or another comparable tool in the "Navigation Data Storage" category.



The POI Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our POI converter.