Driving Past POI Alerts
Mon, 03/02/2009 - 7:52am
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 16 years
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I have loaded all my custom POI on my new 265WT and they seem to go by them about 1 block before the alert sounds. I tried with Dunkin Donuts, B.of A. ATMs, and Starbucks. They all went by them. I used the built in POIs in the unit and had the same problems. On my 260 and my old 255W, they were right on. I thought that a newer model would be better.
You have to be driving on
You have to be driving on the same road that the coordinates are located and can not be less then 50 ft from the road way.I have a 265 wt and have alerts for various files and have not had a problem on the ones I tried.The 265 comes pre-set with single tone alert.You can change to continuous tone.Go to tools,settings,proximity points,touch change under proximity alerts and touch audio at bottom.You will now see the selection for audio notification.
Note I have 4.80 update and 209.11 maps.
Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.
Tried That
I drive right by a DD, about 20 feet from the edge of the road. It has been there for years and my old 255 and 260 picked it up with a alert with no problems.
I did not upgrade to 2009.11 maps when asked. after all the problems that I have been reading about, I will wait.
Paul..... Nuvi 765T
Driving Past POI Alerts
I noticed something strange with some of my POI alerts. A few of the POIs I have loaded in my GPS will only alert me if I am driving past it on a certain side of the road. It will not alert me when passing it going from south to north, but on the return trip going from north to south on the other side of the street, it will trigger an alert on approach. I have the distance set to 1/2 mile. It happens with some of the POIs but not all of them. Strange.
Nuvi 765T, Nuvi 2350LMT
Strange
Maybe if you set your custom POIs under a certain distance, there is not enough time for it to alert you. Example: I set the alert with a distance of 100. Feet, could I be going too fast to pick it up? I wonder if there is a minimum distance you must use for the alerts to work? Yet, using the built in POIs the same thing happens. I personally think it is the unit.
Paul..... Nuvi 765T
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A few of the POIs I have loaded in my GPS will only alert me if I am driving past it on a certain side of the road.
That is usually a sign that the coordinates are not in the street or on the curb, but removed a bit from the street. Some people make use of that capability to purposely design directional POIs.
Nuvi 660 -- and not upgrading it or maps until Garmin fixes long-standing bugs/problems, and get maps to where they are much more current, AND corrected on a more timely basis when advised of mistakes.
New Firmware Available
Don't know if it will help, but I just noticed that a new firmware level was released today....
Nuvi 2x5(WT) Firmware V5.00 Released
Alerts
Maybe if you set your custom POIs under a certain distance, there is not enough time for it to alert you. Example: I set the alert with a distance of 100. Feet, could I be going too fast to pick it up? I wonder if there is a minimum distance you must use for the alerts to work? Yet, using the built in POIs the same thing happens. I personally think it is the unit.
You should get alert at 100ft if the coordinates are close to the road of travel.
What do you mean by same thing happens on built in pois?You can't set alert for internal pois.
Edit.I have the 209.11 maps.Until today had the 4.80 software update but downloaded the newer one today.I have seen some of the reports on the site about problems reported.The only thing I can say I haven't experienced them and I use my gps a lot.
Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.
Built in alerts
The alert from the internal POIs is TTS arrival notice. Sorry for the mixup.
Paul..... Nuvi 765T
pcatch>> I drive right past
pcatch>> I drive right past a Dunkin Donuts
Ah, pcatch, maybe your GPS is trying to tell you something.
Not casting any dispersions here ... but if you are like me, you probably should/could drive right past a few dunkin' donuts.
Please don't tell my wife about your GPS and its Dunkin Donut problem... or she will insist that I buy a similar one.
I can live without a lot of things ... but they will have to pry my cold dead fingers off my last donut.
Garmin 205, 260W, 1450LMT, 2460LMT, HEREwego for iPhone ... all still mapping strong.