NUVI 350 - newbie question

Not exactly sure what you mean by "have the voice info as well as the POI."

Can you try and explain a little bit what you are looking for?

Tour Guides perhaps?

Custom Alerts?

I guess custom alerts.... like if I am coming to a red light camera that the alert says "camera" or says "red light camera ahead"... I am sorry for the lack of knowledge with this I just got the gps on Monday. Thanks for your help.

No problem.

Check out this thread.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1878

People have used a speech converter program to create their own files.

You make the file as an mp3 and name it exactly the same as the POI file except for the file extension. (For example redlight.csv and redlight.mp3)

Then you put the mp3 in the same folder as your POI file and it will load when you run POI Loader.

Follow MM's direction and you'll be fine.

On a side note, and in my opinion, the speech converter is really a cheezy way to go . If it works for ya then fine.

I'd prefer to be a bit more creative. Record your own voice or get someone else to record something.
Edit a cd, search the web for sound bytes of Homer Simpson or everyone seems to want Mr T. (which I have as well. Come to a red light camera and "I don't think so suckka" in the unforgettable Mr T voice emits from my c550. You'll just have to convert the wav file to an mp3 file.

Thanks for the thoughts.... I am going to try it this week and see what I can come up with..... I have some local redlight cameras already in so I will just update the folder with a file following the info you all have given...

It never fails, I learn something new here every day!
I wasn't aware we could get rid of the annoying "Ding" sound whenever we pass by a school zone, or any other place that has an alert attached to a location.
I appreciate all the help and ideas I have received from everyone here.
I now have an MP3 telling me when I am near a school zone.

So when will the prompt kick in? I am trying to understand if this is also something you need to put into the csv in some way?

Other note...if I want to start over importing poi's....can I just delete the one poi file in the nuvi or does that have more than just custom poi's in it?

Thanks!

The alert will sound whenever you told it to when you loaded your Custom POIs.

If you take a look at the Help File in POI Loader, you will get a bunch of info about the various alerts. I don't have it in front of me so I'm gonna try from memory.

POI Loader interprets certain things in the POI filename for the alert information.

If the file has the word redlight in the name, the alert will automatically be set at 1/4mile (1320 feet) at any speed.

POI Loader will interpret numbers in the filename as speed information. For example, school_25.csv, will produce a 25mph (or kph) alert. For each speed alert, a corresponding distance is autmomatically set. For example, a 25mph alert might correspond to 1320 feet. A higher speed would have a greater alert distance. I'm not 100 percent sure of the exact distances.

Another way to set alerts is to put it in the name of the POI location itself within the CSV file.

For example
-77.554,37.888,Starbucks@25
would produce a 25 mph alert for that Starbucks location.

Also, if you run POI Loader in Manual Mode instead of express, you can set whatever speed and proximity alerts you want for each POI file.

As to the question of loading new POIs, you can delete the POI.GPI file from you GPSr to delete all the POIs you have loaded. But each time you load new POIs, the POI.GPI is overwritten, so any old ones will automatically be gone.

You can also use POI Loader to delete all your Custom POIs. And I believe on certain nuvi's you can delete them from the nuvi menus.