Creating a gpx for school zone alerts in Edmonton Ab

School Zone Alerts for Garmin devices w/o Garmin provided school zone alerts

You will be using only the locations in Edmonton AB.

I prefer the following .wav file for the alert (although you can always make one to your own liking)
school_zone slow down.wav

I would like to look at the hotspots.db you have. Would you please send it to me? Click on my Contact information.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/43288

dobs108

It was fun rereading that old thread.

Yes indeed, it can be a challenge to do a large task like creating a school zone POI with alerts for an entirely new city but with perseverance, it can be done and is very useful to those who need it.

If at first you don't succeed, ...

Reading from another link..
As jgermann stated, standard Custom alerts require the POI location (the lat/long you used for each school) to be "along the route," which means within about 100 feet of the roadway being travelled, regardless of the alert distance you set. Switching from a Custom POI "along the route" to a Custom TourGuide POI "alert radius" should help you.

The 100 feet from road way may be my problem. I was under the impression it was the radius sett that would trigger an alarm.

Now to figure some way (easy) to move all my coordinates to the center of the road. Can do it with Google maps but perhaps there are other less convoluted methods.

EPE is how many of us adjust the "marker" for a POI.

Read these FAQs

Downloading and Installing EPE {G}
Configuring EPE {G}
Building alert distances in GPX files using EPE {G}

Try it and then ask questions. We will be glad to help

John

Did you get my email John?