Garmin talk

When entering new favorites on to my 255wt, is it more accurate to enter the addresses off of say Google maps or actual coordinates? I've noticed that when I go with the addresses my GPS will tell me I'm at the address when in fact I may be a hundred or even two hundred yards away. Thanks
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Probably others have run into the same problem, but navteq the source for garmin's maps has errors throughout, ie, delivery trucks told me they were being sent two miles east of my home location when they would arrive late after having called. Sure enough when I tried to locate my property it indicated an eastern location from actuality.

Hi, I am a little confused. I loaded Mapsource onto my PC and I am not really sure why I would want to send a map to my device. Does that override the base map? I may be overanalyzing this but I am not sure if someone could summarize why I would use that and load in a map like Baltimore MD or somewhere.

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When I load custom POI's with POI loader, they appear on the device when I explore using my computer, but the 'extras' icon does not show up on the unit. Sometimes, but not often, it shows up just to disappear again when I plug it in. Okay, so I had this problem and talked to Garmin twice, so they eventually told me to get a new unit, which I just did. Came home, loaded the updates, and...

My Garmin 750 is now more than 1-year old and when I power up I am getting a "map out of date" nag notice that does not go away on its own. I do not wish to update at this time. Any one know how to delete this message ???

I have just returned to Southern Ontario from a trip to Key West, about 6000 Km (nearly 4000 miles). During the trip I had some strange experiences, with the nuvi, that I thought may be of interest to some of you.

After haveing my 750 about a month and giving wife a 755T for her B-day we won't even go 2 blocks without one. The RLC alert saved us the other day going to Prescot, never saw it till alarm went off. Road had been 65, changed to 55, we were 55 at trap and car in front maybe 57-60 go light-up. It was a city cam so no 10 MPH grace.

I think I've figured out why the Nuvi's freeze for a few seconds when typing. It's because of the number of custom POI's, either in the unit, or on a card.

I experiend this after loading the US Postal Zip POI, and found the typing delay was there, not too bad but there. As I have mine on the SD card, I just removed the card and no more delays.

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My 260W battery failed after only 8 months. I contacted Garmin and was told to send my unit in for exchange. I'm now working on my second exchange/refurb unit. The refurb units have had various problems, however Garmin has been replacing them and paying for shipping back & forth. Customer service has been great, but I'm beginnning to wonder about their quality control.

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I have a Nuvi 1490t and when I tried to copy the POI files to the 1490 using POIEDITOR the Nuvi runs out of space. I've eliminated some of my POI files to get it to load.
What files can I delete on the Nuvi besides the cars and voices?

I have several GPS devices. They are:

-Garmin StreetPilot 2730

-Garmin Nuvi 500

-Garmin Nuvifone G60

-Pharos GPS Phone 600 with Garmin Mobile XT

I am just wondering if anybody happens to know if it is possible to tether any of those devices to display on a Dell Min1 10 netbook under Windows Mobile XT?

How to open and transfer to a Garmin GPS some downloaded unlocked map files ?
For Europe I have 13 files 150MB RAR generating each 1.5 GB of data.
I RAR one of them which generates an .img file.
But Mapsource does not recognize it.
I am lost.

how can i copy maps from new garmin to an old one?

does anyone know if its possible to put marine maps on a sd card? and will it work on a nuvi? thanks

I have set my home location in my Nuvi-260W several times, but never seem to arrive at home....
When you reach your destination, the Garmin clears the where-to-route.
This works fine at my work as we have a big parking lot and have set the location on the entrance of it.
However... at home....

Only 2 parking places, with a 6 meter (+/- 19 ft?) walkway to the door.

I'm traveling for a month or so and using my Verizon cell modem, which has a 5 Gb per month download limit, wondering how much of my download allocation this will consume? And how long it typically takes? I have two days left on my free post-purchase upgrade. Depending on the size and how long it takes, I may need to find another internet connection to get it done.

Has anyone seen a guide for the traffic symbols for the Nuvi's (I have the 765T)? There are guides that show some of the symbols, but not all of them, and I was wondering what those extras are.

Started having a problem with Mapsource when retrieving data from my 265WT. It basically blows up with an error message and an option to copy it to the clipboard for inclusion in email to tech support (I'll paste it at the end of this post).