POI Factory gives better warnings
Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:07pm
 12 years
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I recently bought an Escort 9500ix Radar detector which had the red light and speed cameras built in and down loadable. I also use a Nuvi 1490 with the POI factory red light and speed camera data base I loaded into it. I do have to say that the warning I get from the POI factory database give me far more distance warning than the Escort. With the Escort you only get max of 500 ft. and many times only 300 ft. The warnings given in the Nuvi are usually double that. And in south Florida they seem to love to have short yellow light times. So the extra time is greatly enjoyed.
Has anyone noticed the extra distance and what do you think.
Adjustable
You can set the warning distance to whatever you like with the Garmin so it's much more adaptable than some other unit's built-in warnings.
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Garmin Nuvi 765T, Garmin Drive 60LM
9500ix
I recently bought an Escort 9500ix Radar detector which had the red light and speed cameras built in and down loadable. I also use a Nuvi 1490 with the POI factory red light and speed camera data base I loaded into it. I do have to say that the warning I get from the POI factory database give me far more distance warning than the Escort. With the Escort you only get max of 500 ft. and many times only 300 ft. The warnings given in the Nuvi are usually double that. And in south Florida they seem to love to have short yellow light times. So the extra time is greatly enjoyed.
Has anyone noticed the extra distance and what do you think.
I've been using the 9500ix for some time now, but haven't used the database from here. With a side by side comparison, how would you rate the accuracy of one vs the other?
Streetpilot C340 Nuvi 2595 LMT
Settting warning distance
Where do you go in the garmin to set the warning distance.
not sure, but i would guess
Where do you go in the garmin to set the warning distance.
I would guess this is set when loading the POI with POI loader.
Streetpilot C340 Nuvi 2595 LMT
Been searching for over a
Been searching for over a week and still can't seem to locate where to set the warning distance. In the Garmin POI loader it only lets me set the measuring type or kilometers or miles and not the distance
anyone have any othere ideas where you can set the distance for the warning to go off
When you run poiloader
When you run poiloader select the manual mode not the express.When you set the distance in feet for each custom poi that will be the alert distance for that custom poi.Click next for custom pois you don't want the alarm for.
Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.
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I count on POI Factory alerts.
some links
When you run poiloader select the manual mode not the express.When you set the distance in feet for each custom poi that will be the alert distance for that custom poi.Click next for custom pois you don't want the alarm for.
There's a couple of really good sticky threads on how to do this. Sorry I can't find the one I'm thinking of, but here's a start:
http://www.poi-factory.com/faq/garmin-poi-loader
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1278
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/85
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6764
Radar Detector
Is it possible to change the distance setting on the Escort as well?
apples and oranges
Is it possible to change the distance setting on the Escort as well?
The radar detector detects the radar signal the RLC in the GPSr doesn't detect anything it goes off because of proximity to a pre=programmed location in the RLC file.
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Alerts
When you run poiloader select the manual mode not the express.When you set the distance in feet for each custom poi that will be the alert distance for that custom poi.Click next for custom pois you don't want the alarm for.
There's a couple of really good sticky threads on how to do this. Sorry I can't find the one I'm thinking of, but here's a start:
http://www.poi-factory.com/faq/garmin-poi-loader
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1278
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/85
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6764
I prefer this method http://www.poi-factory.com/node/28521 .
Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.