no POI when longitude is higher than 104.00000

Thanks

I noticed that also.

Alaska and Hawaii have longitudes higher than -104.

According to the Garmin site, the nüvi 205 has maps "Preloaded City Navigator® NT data for the lower 48 states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico (no Alaska or Canada detail)"

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=13429

Unless you have supplemental maps, this could explain why you don;t see the POIs

The longitude is east/west. So -104.00000 and up is halfway across the US (approximately) and west of that. Canada is in there too, at least the western half.

If you look at the file with Excel, do you see longitudes greater than -104?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude

That's right. -104 is very close to the border between Montana and The Dakotas. For a Canadian reference, -104 passes just east of Regina.

What do you mean by "higher" and I ask this since you quote a negative number (-104)?

Do you mean that you do not see -105 or you do not see -103?

The .csv file has lines that start with -159.71778
and end with -63.96122747. Around the -104 line, which do you NOT see?

Assuming that you did a run of POI LOader to put the state parks file on your 205, it might have been that a line in the file caused POI LOader to fail (but you did not indicate such). I just tried to load the latest state parks file and was successful.

I see that you are new to the site, so we will help if we can. We just need to understand what happened.

Flip the file in Excel or Open Office so that the lower numbers are listed at the top and try to load it again. See if you get a different outcome.

There is one other thing that may explain what is being observed. That is how the OP is determining the longitudinal limit. If they are viewing them on the unit it will only show the 50 closest to their location which could very well be the case.

thanks for all your answers.

Garmin support gave me the correct answer:

If your momentary position is more than 10.000 km away you will not see the POIs behind.
To see them you can change your postion and you will see all the POIs you missed before.

Problem solved. Thanks for reporting back.

Learned something new!