Putting rest areas via route on NUVI 360

Please read the FAQ section.

But, to make the story short, you need to load the POI file with POILoader in manual mode. This allows you to set the alerts while installing them. You can set it to the distance you want. If you are loading a file that you do not want to set an alert for, DO NOT hit the skip file selection, just click next.

.... and enter the distance you want them to alert. Works like a charm for me. I use 5000 feet and I get plenty of notice to hit them when I need to. I just got home tonight after driving over 2000 miles from Ft. Myers FL to Denver CO and got every alert along the way (with 2 exceptions that I will post as soon as I get the data from the GPS - it's too late tonight to bother with it).

I have mine set for 23,400 feet (five miles). I think that is enough time for me to decide if I want to stop or not.

I did the same thing at 25,000 feet. My 660 wanted to repeat the audio warning ever 20 or 30 seconds (maybe I have a wrong setting somewhere) so I recored a little click sound, just enough to get my attention, and named it the same as the reststop file name with a .mp3 extension. The rest stops then show up on the map 5 miles ahead and the red alert bar show at the top of the screen and I get a little unobtrusive click to attract my attention.

I think five miles would drive me and the better half nuts.Your ideal of making a different alert sound is good. I have mine set for a mile and a half. I have Utah and Rest stop combined loaded with two different atert distances will be interesting to see how close each one is. I am trying it this week.