poi notiication help

 

HI, This is my first post so please excuse me if I sound too ignorant. I have loaded many POI's in my Nuvi-2597 but am not sure how to have them either show up on the screen as I ride and view the map (if possible) and also to have them alert me when one is in a predetermined area. For example, I downloaded the "Covered Bridges" POI's and I would like as I travel instead of me having to look up to see one in the area that it will notify me first while I'm driving. Is this at all possible??
Thank You in advance...

Alerts

schiel1 wrote:

HI, This is my first post so please excuse me if I sound too ignorant. I have loaded many POI's in my Nuvi-2597 but am not sure how to have them either show up on the screen as I ride and view the map (if possible) and also to have them alert me when one is in a predetermined area. For example, I downloaded the "Covered Bridges" POI's and I would like as I travel instead of me having to look up to see one in the area that it will notify me first while I'm driving. Is this at all possible??
Thank You in advance...

See http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25730 for instructions on voice alerts. Here is the video version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsJTUmvb6_o , Other videos can be found at http://www.poi-factory.com/node/45601

Follow up on Icons see https://goo.gl/NQWtLF and also need to check the up ahead on map layers see https://goo.gl/0xia5q

As a suggestion you may want to put the 2597 in Mass storage mod see http://www.poi-factory.com/node/41416

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

Custom POIs will only show

Custom POIs will only show on the map at very close zoom levels. They won't show at normal driving levels.

If you add something as a favorite, it will show on the maps as a "heart" icon, but adding a whole POI file to Favorites isn't a very good option.

The best the would be to convert them to tour guide files. The directions for doing this is in one of the many FAQs listed under the Learn Tab at the top of any POI Factory page you are on.

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Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267

POI icons.

A comment on the above post. I have a number of POI files for my 3597 and icons to go with them. They show at most zoom levels. As you will find if you look around this site they are .bmp files with the identical name as the POI file. Many but not all have such files on this site.

TourGuide is the way to go for Covered Bridges

Since there aren't a lot in a given area you won't be annoyed by an audion alert such as you would if you put one on say a McDonalds.
You can experiment with distance. maybe a couple miles and you will get every covered bridge that would be in that radius.

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Nuvi 2460LMT.

Rw: TourGuide is the way to go for Covered Bridges

TourGuide files require a matching audio file or they won't function.

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Absolutely correct.

Box Car wrote:

TourGuide files require a matching audio file or they won't function.

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Nuvi 2460LMT.