Garmin 255w Red Light Alarm Malfunction?

I've never hard of that before when using the default 1/4 mile "Redlight" distance.

Can you provide some more information as to what other Custom POIs are on your unit, if any?

All the other POI'S I have loaded are from this site. Restaurants, boating ramps, stores etc. I can give you an exact list of what is on my custom POI'S is that helps.. and thanks

It's not so much as what you have loaded, but how you loaded them. Do you have multiple GPI files? How about 2 or 3 files all trying to alert at the same time? What we are getting at is you need to look at what you have loaded and how you loaded them.

If you are talking about downtown Chicago, where there may be areas where every intersection has a camera, I think it is because of the default alert distance of 1320 feet when using PoiLoader automatically. You will get 4 alerts before the intersection beginning at 1320 feet. If the distance from one camera to the next is around 1320 feet or less, the alerts will be constant. You also get an additional alert every time you stop and go again. All these alerts make you think an intersection has a camera, where it really is at the next one. I always use PoiLoader in manual and enter a proximity distance of 500 feet. This is sufficient for city streets where the speed limit is 40 mph or less. I get one alert at 500 feet and another about 125 feet. This is much less confusing since there are fewer alerts and the location is obvious.

dobs108

I have my Redlight camera distance set for 660 feet (1/8 mile), which works well for me. It gives me plenty of notice but not so much [notice] that I'm alerted one intersection before the intersection with the redlight camera.

Ahhh this makes sense now because it seems to be fine when I approach an occasional camera but when there is one after an other it goes nutty. OK don't laugh but how do you change the distance setting.

And again Thanks All!

Flip

This is from memory. Connect the GPS to the PC and run PoiLoader. First, it finds the device. Then the folder that contains all your POI files is highlighted. Then there is a radio button already selected for "run PoiLoader automatically." You don't want that. Click on "manual" and click next. For each POI file, you enter what type it is and the distance, etc. For the Red Light Camera file, it is proximity, and enter 500 or 600 feet, whatever you want. Other POI files come up one window at a time. For McDonald's it could be proximity and 1320 feet. Every one is custom. Speed is different. Red light cameras don't use speed.

dobs108