Can nuvi 660 alert me if I am speeding?

No.

But you can create a series of speed alerts in areas that you frequently drive and load them as Custom POIs.

Is there an example on how to do this or somewhere you can point me to?

There are a couple of streets by me that have mbile speed traps (speed camera fixed on a police minivan) and sometimes I drive by above the speed limit, so I am looking for a way to avoid doing that by getting alerted whenever I drive on these two streets and possibly more.

Create a CSV file with the coordinates and a name that makes sense to you for each location.

Check out this page for the correct format.

http://www.poi-factory.com/garmin-csv-file-format

From that page, here are some specifics.

Adding Alert Speeds

* line 3 doesn't have a speed alert (speed alerts are optional and don't need to be included on every line)
* if all locations have the same speed alert, you should specify the speed in the file name instead of each location (not shown in this example)

Then you would load them with the rest of your Custom POIs with Garmin's POI Loader software.

If you have your 660 angled just right, you will see the reflection of the police lights if you are speeding. SMIRK

thanks for the link and the information but here is another question, looking at "Police Station@35"

does that mean if I am driving above 30 miles an hour it will alert me, otherwise if I am driving 20 miles an hour it won't?

if that's the case then how to set it to alert me all the time? would something like this work @0 or @1 ?

jmar254 I wish it works that way

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6764

You are asking for a speed alert that alerts regardless of speed. That is not a speed alert -- that is a proximity alert.

I Use GPS speed alerts for 1 particular area near home.

When I enter the area (Proximity set in MapSource .300) I get an alert and if I exceed the speed 40mph set using @40 in the waypoint name then I get another alert with the RED BANNER and a DING DING.

The name of the GPX file is lowerspeeds.gpx but the waypoint inside the file has a name of "SouthDixi@40"
and the proximity is set with the waypoint manager.

Also have another waypoint in this GPX file called "JamesAve@25" and this also works the same but with speeds over 25 bring an alert

If I would create a gpx for this kind of information, where would that GPX load?

Currently, I have cvs files, each in a separate directory under a root folder called POI. I use POI Loader to load them as a single file to my Garmin SD card.

This is nice and clean, it's loaded in one file on the SD card. Whenever i turn on the GPS it asks me if I need to load it to the internal memory and I would ignore it.

so, in these two instances if I load a gpx file or allow the GPS to load the custom POI's into memory, where do they go and do they override anything on the dedault setup?

They load just the same as you csv files. Treat them the same way; they end up in the same POI.gpi file as your csv files.

If you load them to your SD card with POILoader, then the .csv files will be in the custom poi file and the gpx file will show in your favorites.

MM, correct me if I am wrong.

If you LOAD csv and/or gpx files with POI Loader, they will be Custom POIs.

If you COPY gpx files to the SD card, they will be read as Favorites.

If you COPY csv files to the SD card, they won't be read by the unit.

Either CSV or GPX files can have speed alerts embedded in them.

Either CSV or GPX files can have proximity alerts set with POI Loader.

I must have misread it the last time. Thank you for clearly spelling it out.

Check this thread out, about maintaining proximity alerts on csv files and converting them to gpx:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/12629

I find this approach very convenient, you would maintain the csv, then convert to gpx, and POI Loader the gpx files.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this makes zero sense to me. If you like gpx files, why not create them, save them, and load them as gpx files? Not only would the other procedure require an extra conversion, but you would almost certainly have to maintain every POI file as both a csv and gpx. Every time any one POI file is updated, all files have to be reloaded and you certainly wouldn't want to reconvert the same file over and over.