POI alerts on Garmin 7200

 

My POI alerts are working intermittently on my 7200. I'm not sure why. They seem to be formatted correctly, the icons and sounds are renamed properly. They do work, but not consistently. I have checked the configuration of the 7200 and all seems to be in proper order. They are loaded by POIloader.

Any thoughts or suggestions.

Thanks

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Ted

when you say that they work

when you say that they work intermittently, do you mean that the same alert does that or that it is intermittent as far the whole bunch.

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Charley - Nuvi 350 - Bel STI Driver - Cobra 29 w/ wilson 1000 - AIM: asianfire -

Sorry for the delay. It

Sorry for the delay.

It appears that if the POI is on the road, I'm traveling, the alert works, if it isn't on the road but nearby, such as off an exit or a nearby street, it doesn't alert or at least most of the time. I thought if I was in the proximity circle, it should alert. Am I wrong there?

I have a number of "alert" locations, I travel past often and they alert one day. but not the next.

Thanks,

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Ted

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See this thread.

I drew a diagram :-)

(I don't know for sure that this information applies to the 7200 - but it sounds like it does!)

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Yeah, it's definitely not a proximity circle. It is an alert along the road.

My experience has been that

My experience has been that when specific locations do not trigger the alert, the coordinates were not on the road.

I have found several of the school alerts to have the coordinates of a location on the school site, but not on the road where the school zone is enforced. I found that the school closest to my house would alert if I was routing either to the school or on a route past the school, but would not alert while just driving past the school.

Updating the coordinates for those locations that did not work to be on the road has fixed each of them so that they now alert when driving past the location as expected.

Bill

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nüvi 880 - nüvi 760 - nüvi 660 - StreetPilot 2620 - Portland, Oregon

Problem resolved

I found Hornbyp's article before I saw the response he made here, so I was fixing the alerts, however the additional information/instructions will help greatly. Thanks Hornbyp and all for the help.

This does work for the 7200.

This is a great site with a bunch of very helpful folks, thanks to you all for your efforts.

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Ted