Loading and accessing photos onto a Garmin 200W

 

I purchased a 2 Gig SD card for my 200W. After loading customs POI's to my card, I find I have plenty of room to load photos. I haven't found exactly where to load the photos. Do I create a folder or load it onto the main directory of the card? Second question: How many actually use your Nuvi to carry and display photos?
Thanks,
Dodger34.

easy to load photos

dodger34 wrote:

I purchased a 2 Gig SD card for my 200W. After loading customs POI's to my card, I find I have plenty of room to load photos. I haven't found exactly where to load the photos. Do I create a folder or load it onto the main directory of the card? Second question: How many actually use your Nuvi to carry and display photos?
Thanks,
Dodger34.

Just copy and paste your photos onto the SD card, no need to create a folder.

The first thing I did is this:
-create a photo with my info: name, cell phone #, email address (eg: Owner nuviC320, 555-123-5252, nuviC320@email.com - if lost please contact. Unit is locked and useless to you, and registered with the police and Garmin)

-copy photo to SD card, insert into Garmin
-Turn on Garmin Nuvi, click on "tools" and go to "picture viewer".
-picture viewer detects SD card photo. click on my custom photo. It takes it into a preview.
-select check mark "show this picture when starting"

-add password and security location to Garmin.

Now my Garmin has my contact info on it, and shows it on every boot up. Will make it more likely your GPS will be returned if lost, and maybe if police find it from a thief.

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I have pictures loaded but

dodger34 wrote:

I purchased a 2 Gig SD card for my 200W. After loading customs POI's to my card, I find I have plenty of room to load photos. I haven't found exactly where to load the photos. Do I create a folder or load it onto the main directory of the card? Second question: How many actually use your Nuvi to carry and display photos?
Thanks,
Dodger34.

Rarely look at them, other than the one on my "boot" screen... I keep mine in a separate folder on my sd card.. I don't believe the name matters....

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I never use the GPS for looking at photos

I guess it's a nice feature for some people, but when I want to look a digital photos, I view them on the TV or puter.

I don't personally see any reasons why I'd want to look at photos I have d/l in the GPS.

You can load them into the JPEG folder in the unit memory or make a folder in the SD card called JPEG and load them there.

If you want to use photo navigation, that's a different thing.

I never use it to view

I never use it to view photos. I only use it to upload my ownership / contact photo that boots on load up.

The battery is saved for navigation, and nothing else.

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Good Idea

nuvic320,
The photo sounds like a good idea! Do you photograph a card with the info on it or do you use a graphics program to enter the name, cell, email address etc? Is there a specific size for the photo X by X pixels?

This is generally done with

This is generally done with a graphic program (result will look much better than a photograph). The picture will be resized to fit the screen, but to avoid any degrading of the image it's best to create one the same as your screen resolution (which differs between the "normal" and "wide" versions). If memory serves, my nuvi 250 is 320x240. A few people have templates that they will likely offer as a starting point, but it is just as easy and more satisfying to create your own. Some people caution against putting any identifying information on the screen, including name, address or even home phone number, mainly because of ccerns that after gps theft the crook will be able to use your home location to defeat Garmin lock. I prefer to put my name and phone number on the screen, and never leave my GPS in the car.

I just use word and then a photo editor

I use Microsoft Word to type in big letters my information in a square block.

Then I take a screen shot of the screen, and paste the screen shot into a photo editor (free online editor like http://fotoflexer.com/ ), and crop the picture into a square picture as much as possible.

I don't follow any size standards, the Garmin will recognize and resize it automatically. So long as it looks good and readable it's fine.

This is the easiest way. I'm sure people can get way more fancy than this, but this takes a few minutes and no camera needed.

I put my name, cell phone (so they can't trace the home address), and email address. No home address or anything like that (because I may move, or they may find out where I live).

I feel very safe with those limited pieces of info on the GPS at all times.

Oh on the GPS, my home location is set to a grocery store that's about .25 miles away from my house, so even if someone hacks into my GPS, they'll get to my grocery store, and not my house.

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home location

Frovingslosh wrote:

This is generally done with a graphic program (result will look much better than a photograph). The picture will be resized to fit the screen, but to avoid any degrading of the image it's best to create one the same as your screen resolution (which differs between the "normal" and "wide" versions). If memory serves, my nuvi 250 is 320x240. A few people have templates that they will likely offer as a starting point, but it is just as easy and more satisfying to create your own. Some people caution against putting any identifying information on the screen, including name, address or even home phone number, mainly because of ccerns that after gps theft the crook will be able to use your home location to defeat Garmin lock. I prefer to put my name and phone number on the screen, and never leave my GPS in the car.

I would love to see a crook try to go to my secure location to defeat the Garmin lock. If someone stole my GPS and was dumb enough to come to my secure location, they'd have a few surprises to face, and not to mention they'd be returning the GPS to the rightful owner too. smile

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