All FAQs (alphabetical list of questions)
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- Address difference Garmin|What is the difference between Door to door and logical addressing?
- Accessing routes on a nuvi LIVE dezl Camper/RV or zumo
- Advanced Techniques for Arranging Custom POIs
- Alerts Garmin | How do I get voice alerts for my custom POI's using WAV files?
- Camera Files | How can I recognize an enforcement camera?
- Camera Files | How do I setup red light camera alerts on my Garmin GPS?
- Camera Files | How do I setup red light camera alerts on my TomTom GPS?
- Camera Files | Should I post red light / speed camera locations?
- Camera Files | What communities are included in the red light cameras file?
- Can I customize the Map Buttons?
- Can my Garmin Learn my driving behavior?
- Changing the volume of sound files
- Check Out Garmin Junction View
- Checking what system software version is loaded to your device
- Chrysler | Installing custom POIs onto Media Center 430N
- Common Problems and their Solutions (Garmin)
- Comparing Alerts - speed, along the road/route, and TourGuide
- Continuing Education: Build a POI File with Batch Geocoding
- Convert a GPI file from Your Garmin to .gpx format
- Converting .mp3 files to .wav files using media.io
- Coordinates | How do I find the coordinates for an address?
- Custom POIs Garmin | How do you set up and load custom pois with or without categories.
- Deleting Unnecessary Files on a Garmin
- Exporting Draw Files to Text Files
- Extra POI Editor | Downloading and Installing
- Extra POI Editor | How do I Configure Extra POI Editor?
- Extra POI Editor | How to build alert distance in using gpx files.
- Extra POI Editor | Troubleshooting | Application window does not appear
- Extra POI Editor | Troubleshooting | Run-time errors and crashes
- Find Product and Unlock codes for your maps
- Formatting a POI file for easy sorting in Excel (May work in other spreadsheets)
- Forums | Can I post "For Sale" messages?
- Forums | Can I post links to other web sites?
- Forums | How can I include a clickable link in my post?
- Forums | How can I send a photo, BMP icon or sound file to POI Factory?
- Forums | How do I include a link to a specific post?
- Forums | What are POI Factory's Forum Rules?
- Galileo satellite network and Garmin GPS devices
- Garmin Alerts | dbrillha's Guide to setting up Cusom POI Alerts & TourGuides.
- Garmin Alerts | How do I have a pop-up alert without sound?
- Garmin Alerts | How do I load custom alert sounds for POIs on my Garmin GPSr?
- Garmin Alerts | How Do I make Directional GPX POIs Tutorial
- Garmin Alerts | How do I make Directional CSV POIs
- Garmin Alerts | How do I set alerts with POI Loader?
- Garmin Battery | Replacing Garmin Battery
- Garmin Corrupt File System | How do I correct a corrupt or unreadable file or directory?
- Garmin Custom POIs | A simple way to load Red Light, Speed Cameras, and Rest Areas into your Garmin GPS
- Garmin Custom POIs | How do I see more than 50 locations on my Garmin GPS?
- Garmin Custom POIs | nuvi GPX / CSV display differences
- Garmin Custom POIs | Where do I find the files on my Garmin?
- Garmin Custom POIs | Where does the menu show custom POIs on i2 / i3 / i5?
- Garmin Custom POIs | Where does the menu show custom POIs on nuvi 350 / 360?
- Garmin Custom POIs | Where does the menu show custom POIs on nuvi 660?
- Garmin Custom POIs | Why aren't line breaks working correctly on my Garmin nav system?
- Garmin English Language Voices
- Garmin GPS Models | Release Date History
- Garmin Icons | How Do I Load BMP Icons into my Garmin GPSr?
- Garmin Maps | Cloning Method: Install a Map Update Directly to the SD Card.
- Garmin Mapset Naming Guide
- Garmin Memory Cards | Can c320/c330/c340 read POI data from SD memory card?
- Garmin Memory Cards | How do I save to a SD memory card from POI Loader?
- Garmin Memory Cards | What is the largest SD (Secure Digital) card that my nuvi can accept?
- Garmin Memory | How much Internal Memory does my GARMIN have?
- Garmin Models With Power Mounts
- Garmin POI Loader | Does Garmin's POI Loader update the built-in points-of-interest?
- Garmin POI Loader | Hornbyp's guide to setting alerts with POI Loader
- Garmin POI Loader | How do I keep from overwriting previous loaded POI's?
- Garmin POI Loader | How do I remove custom POI files from my Garmin GPS?
- Garmin POI Loader | What file formats can POI Loader read?
- Garmin POI Loader | When choosing a Source within POI Loader, why can I not see any of my POI files?
- Garmin POI Loader | Which GPS models work with Garmin's POI Loader software?
- Garmin Real Directions in Real Life
- Garmin Reset | How Do I Perform A Master Reset On My dezl/Edge/Live/Nuvi/Quest/StreetPilot/Zumo
- Garmin Routes | How Do you Build Routes Using Mapsource?
- Garmin Speed limit display - Which models can change a speed limit value?
- Garmin StreetPilot 27X0 | "How-To" Guide from Masterclass.com
- Garmin Themes and POI-Factory member Narvick's custom themes
- Garmin Time Zone Information
- Garmin TourGuides | How do I set up a Tourguide?
- Garmin TourGuides | Making CSV Files into TourGuides – And Their Many Different Uses
- Garmin TourGuides | TourGuides made easy
- Garmin Tricks | Gary Hayman's Tricks, Tips, Work Arounds, Hints, Secrets and ideas for the Garmin Nuvi
- Garmin Voices | How do I modify my TTS Voices?
- Garmin xImage | Where can I download Garmin's xImage software?
- Garmin | Backup and restore favorites
- Garmin | Links to Device Software Update Change Logs
- Garmin | Where do I download Map Updater?
- Garmins that cannot receive a Route from a Computer
- Garmin| Will my Garmin nüMaps Lifetime subscription be transferred if I sell or give my device away?
- Hidden Extensions | How do I show hidden file extensions on my computer?
- Hidden Files | How do I show hidden files on my computer?
- How Can I Create A Custom Avoidance?
- How do I access the Satellite Information page on my automotive device?
- How do I change the voice on a Nuvi, Live, Dezl or Zumo?
- How do I check installed maps on my Garmin?
- How do I contact another user at the POI Factory?
- How do I create a Custom Dashboard for a nuvi 3597?
- How do I create a route using shaping points?
- How do I disable the Auto Zoom feature on my Garmin device?
- How do I find the coordinates for an address using my automotive device?
- How Do I Get My Favorites/Saved Places To Stay Deleted?
- How do I remove a Point of Interest (POI) from future POI searches on an automotive device?
- How do I route to an intersection of my Garmin Device?
- How do I show or hide the trip log on my Garmin device?
- How do I simulate a route on my automotive device?
- How do I take a Screenshot on my Garmin Device
- How do I Transfer Address Book From Garmin To Rand McNally?
- How do I turn device on or off if it freezes up or will not power on?
- How do you copy the L/L from a location in Google maps
- How do you enter pre-boot mode on your Garmin
- How many favorites/saved places can I save on my automotive device?
- How many routes and/or trips can I save to my Garmin device?
- How many waypoints can a route have?
- How to copy a route from Basecamp to a GPSmap 60CSx
- How to copy a track from Basecamp to a GPSmap 60CSx
- How to create a single .gpx file containing POI’s from several different files within a specific geographic area using Basecamp.
- How to Download .kml POIs to Honda Navigation
- How to find and download Garmin's Large Junction View file.
- How to install custom POI icons to just some of your GPS units
- How to Measure the Accuracy of Your GPS
- How to save drive space after a map update
- How to search for an address by ZIP code?
- How To Upgrade The Software On Your GPS
- If you are having trouble running Garmin Express
- INDEX to FAQs and Other Pages
- Is my Garmin nuvi compatible with WAAS or EGNOS
- Is there a maximum number of Custom POIs I can load?
- Junction Views for Garmin On The Road Devices - Which Junctions are displayed?
- Laws | Windshield Law and the GPS Receiver
- Loading POIs to a Trucker Tablet
- Magellan Alerts | Do custom alert sounds work on Magellan?
- Magellan POI Files | Why doesn't Magellan POI File Editor import all the locations?
- Making a USB Cable that will power a 660 (And probably other models) off USB Port
- Map Themes: how to change and even edit them
- Mass Storage Detection Garmin | Why doesn't my computer detect my device when it's in USB Mass Storage Mode?
- Misc | How to set Routing options on Nuvi Vs Magellan
- MTP Mode Garmin| How to change it to Mass Storage.
- POI Files | Can I upload a file that I downloaded from another site?
- POI Files | Can I upload files created with POI Harvester?
- POI Files | CSV or GPX, Which do I need?
- POI Files | How do I create a GPX File?
- POI Files | How do I update a file that is already on the site?
- POI Files | Why do CSV files have an Excel icon?
- POI Loader Max Distance Garmin | What is the maximum alert distance setting for poiloader in manual mode?
- Problems Unique to Certain Devices (Garmin)
- Rand McNally CSV Format
- Reading posts on poi-factory
- Release Date History for Garmin Maps
- Schools: How to be alerted to school zones on automotive Garmin GPS devices that don't have Garmin-provided school zone alerts
- Search Garmin | What is One Shot address or point of interest search?
- Set time and timezones
- Solving "Route Memory Full" Problems
- Solving problems when downloading updates in Garmin Express
- Sounds | How do I make an MP3 Sound file?
- Subdirectories: Creating and Using
- Techniques for arranging Custom POIs
- Tell Your Garmin GPS Which Road to Take Using Via Points
- Test out Junction Views
- Time Zones - Why do GPS Time Zone maps change so often?
- TomTom Alerts | How do I enable alerts on my TomTom?
- TomTom Alerts | How do I get mp3 alerts onto my TomTom unit?
- TomTom OV2 | How do I convert POI files to TomTom OV2 format?
- TomTom OV2 | How do I get OV2 POI files onto my TomTom?
- TomTom POI Files | How to display Multi-line descriptions and Phone numbers in TomTom
- TomTom | POI Factory Camera Files | Installing
- Understanding Alerts vis-à-vis POI Coordinates
- Understanding POI Loader Screens
- Upgrade your old Garmin with open street map.
- User Accounts | Do I lose active status if I stop posting?
- User Accounts | How do I become an active member?
- User Accounts | How long do COW recipients keep their award badge?
- User Accounts | What do the badge icons mean?
- User Accounts | What is a COW Award, and how do I get one?
- User Accounts | What is a General Maintainer?
- User Accounts | Why do active members get free access to everything?
- Using GarminMapUpdater to perform Map Updates - Digital Elevation map image and Foursquare database issues - Caution
- Viewing Google Maps Offline on your Android phone
- What are Smartphone Link and Live Services?
- What Devices are not compatible with the Cyclops Safety Cameras
- What if my device does not support the SD card feature?
- What is a trip log and how does it work on my Garmin?
- What is a troll ?
- What is Foursquare?
- What is myTrends and how does it work?
- What is the Difference Between Real Directions, Real Voices and TTS
- What is the large Junction View file for Garmin On The Road devices and do I need or want it?
- What States and or Provinces are included when downloading a specific region during the map update process?
- What voice languages are compatible with voice activated navigation?
- What your Garmin might display when it overheats
- Where can I find my current elevation on Garmin Device?
- Which AC Wall Adapter / Charger & USB Cable Should be Used for Garmin GPS Devices?
- Which devices have built-in School Zone alerts?
- Which Devices Support Active Lane Guidance?
- Which Devices Will Show Split-screen View
- Which Garmin devices are not compatible in using a map file larger than 2GB in size ?
- Which Units Have a Digital Elevation Map (DEM)?
- Why does Garmin Express freeze at 50%
- Why does the total mileage shown for a favorite appear incorrect?
- Why doesn't my device tell me its recalculating
- Why is my Refurbished Garmin LMT not offering a Lifetime map update?
- Why is my volume level low?
- Will My Garmin Device Automatically Adjust For Daylight Savings Time?
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