POIs that come with Nuvi 750 are seriouisly out of date

Yes, they get updated with the map update. It appears that old ones take longer to get removed then new ones to be added.

I think if the GPS users were diligent about reporting those needed removals to Navteq they would probably get updated much more quickly.

Nothing more frustrating than being in an area you're not familiar with and routing to a restaurant only to end up in the middle of a new residential area.

Is there an e-mail address or a known point of contact that can be listed on the forum so we all can diligently help get this updated?

http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-external/secured/submi...

Use the phone number and call before hand to verify it is the correct place, or even still there.

I do that with hotels all the time to see if they are there and to make reservations.

there a few restaurants that closed down for at lest 8 years now yet in POI its shows that it still exist

I depend on the Hilton POI from here. But that is a good idea anyways. I think this is a prime example why we use custom POIs.

True about the custom POIs, but the OP was talking about the factory loaded ones.

I think this is a good reason to keep the POI files small here rather than the mass combined files. A small single restaurant file is easy to keep updated so that we have quality information. A large 10,000 reataurant file is very unlikely to be verified and updated.

Again, the OP was talking about his dissatisfaction with the built in ones. NOT custom POIs...

As for a large combined file being hard to work on??? How so? How hard is it to hit CTRL F in Excel to search for, say a Denny's, that is no longer there? It jumps to the Denny's part of the file and you delete/modify the line same as you would with a stand alone Denny's file.

Say someone posts an updated Denny's file. All I would have to do is copy all from the new file, highlight all the Denny's entries in the old "monster" file, delete those rows and paste the new info at the bottom of the file. Bada bing... An entire restaurant chain updated in under 30 seconds.

Not that hard at all...

But, I guess it is a preference thing. I prefer to see ALL the restaurants that are around me and being able to search by name in a single file instead of having to page through dozens upon dozens of individual POI files to find a restaurant near the end of the alphabet since we can't create subcategories within custom POI files.. After all, that's how Garmin does it. I find it much easier to search for a restaurant I know I want to go to under "All Food" and spell the name (or a portion of it), rather than trying to figure out what category it's in. Some restaurants, stores, etc just don't "fit" into one category. For example, there's a great Japanese place near me that serves sushi/sashimi. It's listed under seafood, but not in the Asian category. The first time I looked for it required multiple category searches. Had I just searched Asian instead of "All Food", I would have concluded that it wasn't in the factory POI database. Something to think about...

Also, it's a lot easier and more efficient to run ONE file through POI verifier than many, many files individually.