Rest Stop Alerts

 

I have installed Rest Stop POIs and set my Nuvi 260W to sound alerts. Now, two questions:

(1) Does the proximity alert go on automatically as I am driving on a road that has rest stops?

(2) WHow do I establish where the next rest stop is going to be while I am driving along the route (i.e., where and how far away is the rest stop from where I am currently on the road)?

Thank you for your help.

POI Alerts

Once you load POI onto your device/ SD card, you will then get an option, under settings, called " proximity points."
This will allow you to turn alerts on or off.
Also when you use POI loader, in manual mode, you can set the distance you want to be alerted , ie 10560ft would be 2 miles.
I always save my Custom POI's on the SD Card in unique folders. I have a folder for "Rest Areas."
These then can be found under "Extras."

To establish where the next rest area would be, select "where to?" "Extras,"
"Custom POIs", then "Rest Areas."
The next 50 Rest Areas will be listed and how far away they are.

Not to quibble

Philc5987 wrote:

To establish where the next rest area would be, select "where to?" "Extras,"
"Custom POIs", then "Rest Areas."
The next 50 Rest Areas will be listed and how far away they are.

Not to quibble but "The Closest" 50 Rest Areas will be listed and how far away they are and also should show an arrow in which direction they are. That is why the Direction of Travel and Highway # for the Rest area are shown in the name - to determine which Rest Areas are in your direction of travel !

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MrKenFL- "Money can't buy you happiness .. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." NUVI 260, Nuvi 1490LMT & Nuvi 2595LMT all with 2014.4 maps !

rest area alerts

When you are the specified distance from the next rest area your unit will give a warning beep and a red warning bar will say Alert: rest area SB I-4 or the name of the route with direction traveled. I have not gotten it to speak a warning with a mp3 file with then same file name in the directory.

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kkkelleher, the nuvi 260 doesn't have an MP3 player so the MP3 alerts won't work. There recently was a fairly long thread about the ability to do the alerts with WAV files on the nuvi 2xx series, so you might see if that thread helps you out.

WAV files and the 2xx seies

Motorcycle Mama wrote:

kkkelleher, the nuvi 260 doesn't have an MP3 player so the MP3 alerts won't work. There recently was a fairly long thread about the ability to do the alerts with WAV files on the nuvi 2xx series, so you might see if that thread helps you out.

Try this

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/13041

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JRoz -- DriveSmart 55 & Traffic