Garmin 200 Nüvi

There are others that geocache with Garmin Nuvis.

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=193374

http://gregable.com/2007/02/geocaching-with-garmin-nuvi-350....

Gosh, for $20 more you could have had the wide screen at West Marine!

the 200 aint a bad Garmin BUT there are other Garmins youcouldve got that yes are more expensive but have more features. It all depends what you are looking for

Eh, so far I like what I got. I originally bought it for my trip to New York next year. Then I found how much other stuff I can customize and mess with.

It is a good basic GPS. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it will get you from point A to point B.

i have the garmin nuvi 200w and the nuvi 5000 my first garmin nuvi 200w loved it had to load all the poi's in stuff but now that i have the nuvi 5000 its go a way bigger screen and more toys but for your first garmin the 200 is good

NUVI 5000 & NUVI 200W

I also bought the nuvi 200. I wanted to upgrade form the c330 that I use to locate customers address for work. And I would like to learn to use it to remind me of the 200 Speed cameras that are going up around the Phoenix area. So I might need some help with that later.
David

How do you load POI's into the Nuvi 200?

Look at this page:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6656

And it will tell you all you need to know.

Daniel

I bought the same special and I love it so far. It's all I need right now. I don't travel a whole lot but it's nice to know I have it when I do. Hope you enjoy yours.

I have the Nuvi 200 and just love it. I'll put it through a real test as we drive from Florida to Indiana for x-mas. I bought my mom the Walmart special Nuvi 200 for x-mas gift, hope she loves it too.

Can anyone tell me about adding a SD memory chip...
Will it allow more POI storage or is it more for adding maps?
Is it possible to add the POI or map directly from the computer to the chip or does the gps have to be plugged into the computer with the chip in it?
Sorry, I am new to this
Thanks
David

My mom bought the Nuvi 200 from Sam's Club on Black Friday. It accepts Micro SD cards although I haven't tested it yet.

My 265WT uses regular SD cards and it appears as 2 mass-storage drives to windows, 2 drive letters. All I tested was the jpeg slide shows.

Steve

There are some things that must be installed in the unit, others can go on the memory card. Putting your custom POI files on the memory card is just one of the possible uses. My memory card has the entire vehicle file from the Garmin Garage and backups of the voices, text, and help files I eliminated from the unit itself.

I see the card as a storage device and the files on the nuvi 200 and some preloaded pics...not sure what to look for for the POI files?
David

OK I found the POI file

Does the same file contain the Favorites, Recent Found, and Home POI`s???

I have some gray hair now, so I might be a little slow at first...LOL
Thanks

Try reading:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1631

You have to download the csv files to your computer and then use the poi loader (software from Garmin) to load them on your nuvi. It will show up under Where To/Extras/custom pois.

Daniel

Thanks for your help, I am sure I will have more questions. I am learning
David

Feel free to ask bud that's what we're all here for. Just as a reminder also. Google works wonders

I bought the 200 from Wal-Mart on Black Friday.
I compared the 205 and the 200 on Garmin's web site before I bought the 200. To my surprise the 200 has all the bells and whistles that the 205 has. Micro SD slot, turn direction arrow, snapshot etc. Did Garmin update the 200 or are they mislabeled? Anyway I love it. Now all I have to do is wait for Christmas to open it again.LOL

Unless Garmin made a design change it is a regular SD card, not a Micro SD card. At least it is a regular SD card on my 200W.

I know, but reading it and understanding something are different...That`s why I like the forum setting, you just get a few different views that make topics easier to understand.
Thanks
David

Yep.. it's an SD in the 200.

My nuvi 200 also has a micro SD slot and I just bought a pair of cards because my phone uses the same card. I think that I should be able to see the photos from my phone on my gps
My bro in law has the same nuvi 200, but his takes the standard SD card.
David

my 200W has sd card slot also, not microsd slot.

i got the 200 as well and love it...I like how its not only very good for traveling but it helps and out when me & the lady are at home thinking of what to order to eat and my gps lets me know whats around the area; in all types of food!! lol...

Per chance are you using the Micro SD cards with the larger (standard SD size) adapter than usually comes with the Micro cards? Nowhere in the specs for the 200 on the Garmin site do I see anything about Micro SD cards. My MP3 player uses Micro SD cards and they sure seem flimsy and easily breakable - but the player is too small for a standard SD slot.

Edit: I did some additional Googleing on "nuvi 200 with micro SD" and there appears to be a maverick unit out there (Blue color) that Walmart is selling with the Micro SD card slot. Sure hope that is not the wave of the future for Garmin. Those little Micro cards look flimsy and can blow away with a sneeze.

I also bought my Nuvi200 (not 200W) on Black Friday at 'Sam's Club'. Mine has a MICRO slot. No ifs, ands, or buts. (1 cm opening) -- So, I guess there has been some change or variance...

I couldn't decide what Santa should bring me for the last $100. I saw a Nuvi 200 at Sears for $130, but my Wife said I was crazy, since I already have four others. I begrudgingly had to agree. We went to Sam's and my Wife pointed to a package stuck underneath way back under a shelf. It was a Nuvi 200 and I just had to check the price because there was no displays anywhere. It checked out to be $97, so since I am gps crazy, I had to have it. It must had been a lost remnant of the Black Friday sale.
I explained that an update for our C330 would be $70, so why not pay $27 more and get a new unit? Well since she was the one that found it, she couldn't really say much, just made fun of my compulsion. She did say I had to wait until Christmas...I'll just play with the other ones until then.

I have a silver nuvi 200 with a micro slot....
I know the difference
David

$97 at sams,well I should go get one.

I have a new 260 which also has a micro slot. It also has the turn indicator and other updates. I contacted Garmin about something else and mentioned these “updates” and Garmin confirmed that they have made some changes to the units.
What it appears to me is Garmin is building a few standard units with the same features but with the features “turned off”. For example I mentioned to Garmin that my 260 appears to have traffic capability. On the phone they said that this feature wasn’t available in the 260. But later in an email Garmin said that traffic was available with the receiver. I don’t have a receiver so I can check it out. I also saw over at GPS Passion someone with a 260 who claims that his computer picked up on the Bluetooth capability of his GPS.
So the short answer is the later units have some feature changes.

nice deal! i've gotten the same one a month earlier and it was much more expensive. :[ haha

from Gary Hayman, one of the big contributors on this site.

http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/index.html

A ton of great information. Hope this helps too!

AFAIK the rule us 3.5 nuvi = micro SD , wide nuvi = standard SD. I did a fair ammount of shopping before I bought mine and that was the case with all current inventory that I looked at.

sd card can hold extra custom POIs. If you put them there (with the POIinstall software) the nuvi will ask if you want to copy to internal memory every time you power up, but can run them from the SD card if you don't do the copy. Also handy if you want to store a lot of jpg photos.

Anyone have any idea when Garmin made that change? My Nuvi 200 has an SD slot which worked out fine as I have them laying around. A micro SD slot would have resulted in having to buy one more thing.

Another question from a new owner on memory. I just got the 200W and went on Garmin's site for updates. The "firmware" was updated to 2.90, if I remember correctly, without problems. However, the free maps update downloaded to my pc OK, but fails to load to the Nuvi with the message "you need another 37 megabytes of memory to install the maps" (I paraphrased that). The only memory card I have lying around is a 128 meg micro SD with SD adapter originally from my Garmin 60 CSx trail GPS, so I installed it in the Nuvi and it was recognized by Windows, but the install failed with the same message. Any thoughts on SD, micro SD and internal Nuvi memory?
BTW, this is a great site and the info is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

See Garmin support about freeing up more space

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/cache/offonce/us/support/se...

Check these out!

http://www.tramsoft.ch/gps/garmin_nuvi200_en.html

what nuvi, after 200, is the model that says the street names???

Try here:

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134

Nuvi 255 or 260.

A good comparison chart is here: http://gpstracklog.typepad.com/gps_comparisons/garmin-nuvi-c...

I purchased the Garmin Nuvi 200w from West Marine for 119.00 last month. They don't say street names, however it displays the street names where to turn at the top of the screen. Extra money for a GPS to say the street name is not important to me.
I prefer seeing the steet names listed on the screen.

I thought about it, and I believe the extra money is worth it. To me Text-To-Speech is the most valuable extra there is, but I realize some people may feel fine without it.

Cheers.

My first GPS a garmin C330. I think the sound and instructions without tts that came out of that little unit were loud and clear. Not so robotic sounding like todays models. Just darn clear no matter how loud you raised the volume. Again, just my two cents.

Yep, we thought about it, and for us the voice is an absolute must. There are occasions when I don't want to take the time to glance at the display so the voice takes care of the directions. Just our spin on things...

I really want one that says the street names but i dont know what to do with the one i have now (200), if i ever do decide to upgrade. Best Buy has the 260w, i think, on sale...

I sold my 200 for $100 and bought a 255 for $188, costing me only slightly more than the map update.

Sometime it's nice to know how to spell a particular street name. I guess some of the more costly Nuvi's do both text and voice on where to turn. Don't know.

The 200 seems like a good basic unit. Anyone know which garmin is suppose to be a replacement for the nuvi 350?