Keep speed alert but without proximity alert

We eventually plan on having a speed camera database too. Would you be willing to share your speed camera locations for your area so that we can add it to our database when we get it up and running?
JM will answer the technical question for you soon.

Hmm -- lets see if we can sort out where the alerts might be coming from. A few questions . . .

Are your speed locations in a single file, or do you have a separate file for each speed level?

Are you setting the alert speed values in POI Loader, or do you have them hard-coded in the POI file? If they come from the file, are they in the file name or are they appended to the location name?

JM

miss POI :
I would be happy to provide speed camera locations around my area. No problem.

JM :
I have 6 separate csv files according to the type of camera (e.g. camera_mobile.csv).
The speed comes from the file (e.g. @30 or @40 , ... appended to the location name) so I didn't set any proximity alert in POILoader.

I have just realised that the proximity alert could come from the fact that the csv files contain special keywords (such as mobile,gatso,..) ?

Thank you for your help.

You might be onto something with the file names. I would expect speed values included in the location name should take priority over the filename, but this may not be the case.

Please keep us in the loop. I don't think many POI Factory visitors have tried speed alerts yet.

JM

I have a similar situation but perhaps simpler. I have a single speed alert set for my town with a proximity radius large enough to cover most of my little town. I get the alerts that a 25 mpg speed limit is ahead but after I get that I can drive up to any speed and get no further alerts. I would like to get alerts any time I am inside the proximity radius when I exceed the speed limit. I have the @25 as part of the file name.

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do you get i ticket like camera lights i guess so from your post but didnt think they had those in effect yet where are you from?
Capt. Dan
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A friend of mine posed a similar question to me. He has a Garmin Nuvi 660 as well. Is it possible to set an overall speed limit alert? He has a fast car that has the unfortunate ability rapidly gain speed. On an open highway he tends to focus more on the road than on his speedo. Is it possible to get an alert so if you exceed X mph you get an alert no matter what?

I'm more judicious with my speed so it's a non-issue for me, but it would be a nifty feature if it was configurable in some way.

sounds nice but don't think a "blanket" speed limit alert is possible.

GPS units and associated poi's, proximity and speed alerts are concerned with one particular spot or location. Distance and speeds are set by the user in an area or "proximity" of this location.

However, one could probably experiment by plotting pois with speed alerts in an overlapping pattern along that open highway your friend likes so much.

It would seem to me to be much easier to ease off the lead foot, albeit not as much fun.

I didn't think so either... Unless one is familiar with reverse engineering Garmin microcode or something like that. He's certainly not a bad or reckless driver, just overenthusiastic on open stretches. Thanks for the confirmation, didn't think it would hurt to ask.