How did you find the POI factory?

By using my GPS of course! (though I'm not sure it brought me by the fastest route)

I found a link on the Garmin site.

It was Google for me.

I found it by doing some google searches I think on red light cameras. I've been hooked ever since!

google searching points of interest stumbled on POI Factory!

Thanks all for making this site what it is!!

Flip

I found poi factory via a google search

Internet search and Garmin Support.

I found it when I was researching which GPS I wanted. I'm still shocked at all the features these things have!

At the time there were a few other sites offering red-light POI files, but this seems to have the most active user base.

There is a link on the Garmin Site to this site. One of the more usefull destinations that Garmin has led me to.

Thank you all, this is fantastic and beyond helpful. I found this off the Garmin POI software site.. W00t the internet rocks.

Thank you all, let me know if and how I can help out if any at all.

Thanks,
Don

Google

Nuvi1300WTGPS

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Good old Google.

Was on the Zumo Forum and it was recommended to me by Motorcycle Mama.

I think it was Google. Been a useful site.

Searching for Safety Camera POI files

Found it on Garmin while looking for information for my Nuvi 750. Been here ever since!!

I was doing a Google search and voila; this is what I found. Great site.

I think I found the link on the Garmin site.

Google search.

The manual for my Garmin Venture HC mentions “Custom Points of Interest”, so I was doing a GOOGLE search on that phrase and found this site. There was so much here about vehicle type GPSr units that I got interested and bought a Garmin 255W.

I did a "Google" search.
JeffSh

From Garmin http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/POISource/

found by Google

Garmin sent me...

I had just bought my 760, rented a car in San Francisco and got nailed by a Red-light camera that I thought was illegal. So, I started to investigate how to use the GPS better, and I soon found the Poi-Factory. I love this site.

I came across this site a few years ago when I got my first GPS and was looking for a way to put POI's onto the GPS.

+1

And happy I did

Looking around Garmin site and later stumbled on it doing a Google search.. great site!!

Thanks to everyone who contributes!

A friend gave me the heads up on the poi factory...and I'm sure glad he did.

Google, it is your friend! (unless you are currently living in China!)

Link from Garmin

I don't remember exactly, but it was either from a Google search, from the Garmin web site, or a link from Gary Hayman's web site "http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/" which is another great web site.

Found the link on the Garmin site

googled garmin help and lo and behold poi factory. first thing i learned was how to spell by one of the other members . boy do you feel like a stupo..
mike

get yours

I found this awesome site on the Garmin Links page.

I had just purchased my Garmin and went to register my nuvi on the Garmin web page. I tried all the links they provided and found several POI sites. Our site was located in the US and appeared to be intersting, so that is where I went first.

I signed up and downloaded the redlight and speed camera files into my nuvi for my up and coming trip. Been here on the forum ever since.

Mike

google

Turned left at Greenland.

I was looking for information on Red Light Cameras and was guided here by Yahoo.

Like a lot of others, google. I was looking for sites that hosted poi files, luckily I found this one. Most others wanted to charge, or didn't seem very up-to-date.

I was in Honolulu, Hawaii last summer. I had just bought my Nuvi750 from Best Buy. I had decided to take it on my trip to Hawaii.

I had been visiting and old friend at the Kapalama Military Reservation in Honolulu. We talked about old times in the Navy here in the late 50s and early 60s.

We started to reminisce about the old Hotel Street with all the sailor bars, and just how much fun it had been.

So I decided I needed to retrace my steps here from an earlier time. I programmed a route into my Nuvi, to get from where I was at to get me to my old stomping grounds on Hotel Street.

To make a long story short I was routed up Libby St. then left on Nimitz Hwy then right to Smith St them left to Hotel St.

Just after I started northeast on Libby St. I noticed a sign saying HPC Foods, Ltd and as I got closer I saw smaller letters POI Factory. Well I was surprised and amazed at the same time. Here was my first POI Factory I ever had found.

Well as it turns out later I found more.

I guess it is like when you buy a new car, you never pay much attention to that model until you have your first, then you start noticing them all over the place.

I guess I probably saw at least 15 large and small, mom and pop, POI factories in the next week.

I know it meant a lot to me. I was surprised at just how much it must mean to others to find their first POI Factory. Here on this sight a lot of people were giving their answer to the question: How Did I Find The POI Factory.

I'm very grateful for you to let me tell my story here.

Thanks to you all, you've made me very happy.

Quite pleasant, thank you.

with Google search and recommendation by Garmin support.

Googled POI's, reviewed the list & checked them out.

This is one great place!

Fred

I moved the couch & there it was, next to that comb I had lost.
It's always the last place you look.

I live right next door to Miss POI That's
how I found this place

Joking

I found it from Garmin Site and I am stuck in this place because it's a great place.