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Source of Food, Lodging, etc categories?

 
Sun, 04/15/2007 - 6:58pm

I don't mean to make anyone mad by saying that nivu 350 has kicked butt and found everything I asked it for. (It has only let me down once when I swerved to miss debris in the road and nuvi thought I was on a service road next to the interstate.)

So, I've been attempting to learn the source of the categories such as Food, Lodging, Fuel, etc.

Is this data just part of the data series of maps that came with the device? Does it do an active data search through some yellow-pages type search? Basically, is the data available in the device only or does it link up with some database?

Thanks!

Ian

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Sun, 04/15/2007 - 7:16pm

Preloaded POIs

The preloaded POIs are generally from lists that Navteq (the company that does the maps & pois for Garmin) buys - and could be from Yellow Pages, Chambers of Commerce, and those kinds of sources, and they're all stored right there in the unit - it's really just a bunch of text, and that does not take up a whole lot of room.

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*Keith* MacBook Pro *wifi iPad(2012) w/BadElf GPS & iPhone6 + Navigon*
Sun, 04/15/2007 - 7:21pm

I wonder how much the

I wonder how much the internal POIs do take. Like you said, POIs don't take a lot of space, but the internal has a pretty big db of places.

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Charley - Nuvi 350 - Bel STI Driver - Cobra 29 w/ wilson 1000 - AIM: asianfire -
Sun, 04/15/2007 - 7:28pm

Fodors

You can also add extensive lodging and travel-related POI's by purchasing the Fodor's SD card that downloads into your unit.

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RKF (Brookeville, MD) Garmin Nuvi 660, 360 & Street Pilot
Sun, 04/15/2007 - 7:28pm

As A Comparison

One can buy the Verizon version of the Bronx NY White & Yellow Pages on 2 CD Roms.

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*Keith* MacBook Pro *wifi iPad(2012) w/BadElf GPS & iPhone6 + Navigon*