One thing I really miss from my StreetPilot - Detour

I miss the deeper louder sound

WOW you haven't posted in a long time them come on like gangbusters and cut down what is being done here. If it is so bad here then why do you continue? If you love your streetpilot so much why did you change? I think you should read and see the changes made here the last 3 1/2 year. Looking at your POI's you haven't updated them in a number of years.

I loved that option! I really miss it too.

This is in a nutshell why I will continue to use my StreetPilot and not switch to a Nuvi. I like the menus better, they are quicker to navigate through.

Unfortunately my StreetPilot has a similar detour feature as you described, it doesn't give any options, just another route. Not an issue really since I never used it nor did I need to, just wanted to see how it reacted.

You gain one thing and lost another and that is life.

I check this forum about once every 6 months or so.

The only thing I really think I 'cut down' was people's assessment of the Redlight Camera files but that was a separate thread. It wasn't even like I was cutting the people down but just pointing out the weird notion of: POI-Factory Good. Everything else bad.

That's not me saying POI-Factory is bad or even that the people were bad. That's me saying that the assessment seemed kind of skewed to me - separate thread, though.

My StreetPilot was a brick. In retrospect, I wish I had kept it. Actually, more to the point, I wish Garmin would release a Nuvi StreetPilot (non-crippled / dumbed down).

Maybe I just caught you on a bad day.

Maybe you're thinking I was cutting people down by merely pointing out some of the features I miss from the StreetPilot that are absent in the Nuvi.

Regarding my POI files:
- I didn't even remember ever having anything to do with the AAA SE files. I'm not sure how that got assigned to me. Maybe I did do them and have forgotten.
- I did do MARTA. I remember that one. It's not like they add a subway station every few months. They haven't added one since I did the original list.

It's also a little strange that you take what I wrote as some kind of personal offense and then start digging up history on me as if to prove I'm not worthy to post here.

To me it was the way I read your post. Both of them. They just came across as a little harse when not needed. No I am not having a bad day. We have had ones that the only time they post is to complain about what they find here. There was nothing personal meant in my response. Glad to see you are posting again. Have a nice evening.

OK - just a misunderstanding.

Have a nice evening. I'll be back in December

I understand why Garmin dumbed down the Nuvis in response to the overwhelming majority of users who are not interested in going deeper than "Where To/Address". In order to be popular, it absolutely has to be easy and require no thought or effort to capture the masses.

Like you, I really wish they would release an advanced model for the technically inclined who would love to have a high degree of programmability to their units. I would love - and pay a premium for - a unit with all the flexibility of MapSource plus full tweaking capability for operating preferences.

If they release a nuvi StreetPilot I'd easily pay $100 premium over their best regular nuvi that they offered.

The main limitation I remember from my StreetPilot was the 2GB of internal memory (and it was a brick). If I still had and used it I'd probably be complaining about the 2GB limit (and no SD card slot).

So, after poking around a bit I realize that the nuvi 2460 has the features I was complaining that the nuvis were missing.

If you go into the settings there's a setting for specific avoidances (by road, distance, or by area on the map) and there is the 'Advanced Detour' that you can enable which gives you the other 'detour' bits which makes way more sense than just 'Detour' (around what???) to me.

Yep - I bought one today. Updating it now. I'll give my 1490T to one of my daughters.

Oh, and the unit is a lot snappier than the 1490.

The lack of a proper detour drove me a bit nuts when I was up in the Mountains recently. They're working on the main road between Gatlinburg and Cherokee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. On my 1490 there was no easy way to say, "That road is closed, route me around." I just had to kind of guess until I got far enough around that I could put my destination in again and it would figure it out. That, in my opinion, greatly kills the usefulness of a GPS.