Garmin talk

HI...getting ready to some traveling from the East Coast to CA.. So I have been asking a lot of questions today.

Using Mapsource on my PC to create my route to CA. This will entail many stops along the way via 75 to 10 to 20 back to 10 and to 8 to 15 etc.. Hope to use BW hotels as my stops..

I DL'd from the POIs the Best Western POI file to my GPS.

I would like to know how to create a POI for Garmin to be uploaded.

I am under the impression that you would need to create a CSV file. But how to you obtain the GPS coordinates for a large number of addresses?

Is there an easier method? Can you purchase software to convert an address to the GPS coordinates?

Is there a company that this can be outsourced to create the file?

Hi..I just DL the Best Western POI file to my PC..all good.

Then I wanted to upload to my 465T, it did but now I have an entry for each BW not a folder(so to speak).

What did I do wrong ?

Thanks..

My granddaughter just noticed something I hadn't seen. On the 3790 with 2013.10 maps, every once in a while something like a fog appears over an area of the map. It's gray and transparent of course. You can still see the map. She first saw it going down Highway 20 in Dubuque and it appeared every now and then on Highway 151 to Madison, Wi. The area is irregular in shape and causes no distortion.

Does anyone know what Canadian cities the Garmin Cyclops Safety Cameras work for? Also, how accurate are they?

I just activated the 30-day trial but won't be in most cities (aside from Toronto) before it expires. I don't want to blow money on something with inferior coverage.

Here is my problem. I was updating the latest map om my 3590LMT. It was at the section where it was loading map to computer. At that time we had a thunder storm rolling thru, shutting down my comuter, so the downloading stop. I disconected the GPS from the computer.

Anyone know if there is a minimum distance that can be set via POI Loader?

A few days ago -- BEFORE THE LATEST AP UPGRADE -- I was driving in Los Lunas, New Meico when a new icon popped up on my Dezl 560LMT. I had never seen it before -- it showed a little girl running, and was in a white window, similar to a TourGuide icon.

Sure enough, about a quarter-mile down the road, I encountered a school zone. I had no idea school zones were in this unit!

As current maps tend to grow beyond the internal memory capacity of various Nuvi models, they must be stored on an external SD card.
Do you suppose that the micro SD card on a Nuvi 1490 is continuously read while navigating? In other words, does the 1490 need to access the micro SD card in real time to retrieve map information during navigation?

My new 3590 turns off automatically after a few minutes while connected to my PC. The time before shutdown varies. It can be anywhere from 1 minute to 8 or 10 minutes. It doesn't matter how I connect it with the USB cable. I've tried it with the unit on and with it off.

After the upgrade last night, I had 70.5Mb free on my 660. I had taken out some of the voices and pictures, music....

I took out more tonight, and about 1/3 of the non-english help files.....

I do have a question about one file...

In the 660, in the MP3 directory, there is a 109Kb file named: Welcome to AudioLunchBox.mp3

Hello All,

First post. I searched a bit but still need a couple things cleared up.

Purchased a 2595LMT old unit was 780.

Driving to work using both I noticed the 2595 showed a Wendys as I was driving by, the 780 did not.

Sticking w/Wendys example, If I install the Wendys custom POI, what advantage is that over stock unit. Won't I have duplicates then?

I remember reading somewhere, the location of speed limit corrections in the Nuvi series. I can't find it now.

Just upgraded to 2013.20 and I want to delete what speed limit corrections I have put in in the past. Where are these files?

Thanks

Last night I was updating some POI files and I wanted to load them onto my 50LM. I had a POI file for Qdoba restaurants already on the device but had made some changes to the csv file in Excel and wanted to load the updated version. When I ran Garmin's POI Loader program, I came to the step where you have two options and the software says something like "1) Load or replace a custom POI file.

Moderator, can you set this thread up to be a poll allowing users to vote their preference between Mapsource & Basecamp?
I'm thinking that Garmin would be interested in the results.

I just updated my 3590 to 2013.2. The new JCV file is smaller than its predecessor.
D3191060A.JCV 449.0MB for 2013.2
D3191050A.JCV 449.2MB for 2013.1

I have a new Montana and I am trying to copy my address book from my Nuvi to the Montana . So I copy and rename my "current.gpx" from the nuvi and put it in the gpx folder on my Montana but they all go to the waypoints and not the address book ANY ideas????

For any one needing the the large, non split screen view, JCV file it's available at:

http://download.garmin.com/support/2013_20/NA/JV/D3060070A.J...

Does anyone know if you can convert the POI.GPI file on a sd card into a GPX or cvs file so that i canedit some errors?

City Navigator North America 2013.20 is available as of a few minutes ago. I'm downloading it as we speak.