Sygic POI (.txt)
Sygic POI (.txt) is a plain, tab-separated points-of-interest list for Sygic's GPS navigation apps, in two variants: a read-only ASCII flavor and a read/write Unicode flavor.
At a glance
| Extension | .txt |
| Encoding | text |
| By | Sygic a.s. |
History
Sygic a.s. is a Slovak company based in Bratislava, founded in 2004 by Michal Štencl, Martin Kališ and Peter Pecho. In 2009 it became the first company to offer GPS navigation for iPhone; Eurowag acquired a 70% stake in 2019 and became sole owner in 2024. No separate publication date is documented for this .txt exchange format itself.
Where it is used
A user's own custom points of interest are not loaded straight into the Sygic app from this .txt file: third-party POI-converter tools turn it (or a .csv sibling) into Sygic's own .upi/.rupi POI-database format, which is what the app's built-in custom-POI import wizard actually reads, alongside a same-named .bmp icon file.
Structure
A tab-separated text file, one point per line — longitude, latitude, name and an optional phone number, in that order, preceded by ";"-prefixed comment lines describing the format. The Unicode variant is UTF-16LE with a byte-order mark and an extra "; unicode" marker line; the ASCII variant is plain-text without either.
How widespread
Sygic remains a currently maintained, widely used GPS navigation app (majority- and now wholly owned by Eurowag since 2019/2024); its own native custom-POI formats are .upi/.rupi, with this plain-text format serving as an interchange step for third-party POI-converter tools rather than something the app reads directly.
RouteConverter support
| Reads | Sygic POI ASCII, Sygic POI Unicode |
| Writes | Sygic POI Unicode |
RouteConverter reads and writes the Unicode variant but only reads the ASCII variant — its write path is intentionally disabled and throws if invoked.