Garmin talk

The other night, I turned it on after work and set my route home. A traffic warning popped up and told me I had a 17 min delay.

Will Garmin or other GPS makers add advertising to their POI listings? Give preference to motel chains, or other companies. who pay a fee to Garmin in advance for a higher listing? I hope not, but time will tell.

December (and a little into January) new articles and additions
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GARMIN NUVI TRICKS, TIPS, WORK AROUNDS, HINTS, SECRETS & IDEAS
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NAUGH-T, NAUGH-T, COORDINATES -
A Couple Of Coordinate Games

HOW HIGH AM I? -
Altitude Please [Added Info]

FINDING THE COORDINATES OF A FAVORITE -

In order to hear Street names being said, I hear that I must select Text To Speech Voices....

I also hear that most 3rd party voices are not Text To Speech voices... Fortunately, I found this out before purchasing.....

Does 3rd party Text To Speech voices exist, and do they just install via Drag & Drop, or, does it have to over-write an existing Garmin voice?

The TTS functionality (no voice functionality is kaput. Where would be a good place to start troubleshooting? Constructive suggestions are appreciated.

I have had a 765T for a while. Recently, I bought the 265WT for my wife. I used the POI uploader to load redlight and speed camera POI's into the 265WT. I followed the exact same procedure as the 765T. The files appeared to have loaded without problems. There were no error messages.

Bin talkin with Garmin about my 755t touch screen issue. Read all all the posts in here about it, so this is nothing new. They made me an offer to get it replaced. I replied that it seemed a waste of time at this point since their new Firmware made mine worse, i know all to well what happens with the software thats on your new Garmin when you register. Here's my Question.

I bought the 285WT and it has 3 months of trial MSN. However, does anyone know how to get/activate FM traffic on the unit?

Is there a way to search for POIs that match a certain criterion? For instance I've loaded the Rest Areas file into my Garmin 765T and would like to be able to find the nearest Rest Areas which have an RV dump. Or find any along a planned route, so we know where we can dump while on the road.

what's the different between usinf redlight and tourguid when building a poi??

G'day,

My new 255W seems to have a lot of stuff utilizing memory that I will never use. I've already pulled the alternate languages off of it but I was wondering if there may be a list of other items I could remove without affecting my day-to-day operation.

Thanks,
Ski

I use my Nuvi 855 when I go "Jeeping" on the trails and dry washes here in AZ and I would like to save a COMPLETE log of a ride for future use. How can I do this?

TIA,

Jim

I just downloaded the POI file Homedepot along with the Homedepot symbol (which I had to copy and paste the symbol) into the Homedepot POI folder. I loaded the Homedepot POI file with the POI LOADER onto my Garmin 1450.

I turned on my Garvin. There is addresses of Homedepot stores that were not there but there is not a icon/symbol on my Garmin Unit?

If someone so kindly explain to me what is the difference between the POI file abd the CSV file

Where do I place the Icons as listed below?

I found where you copy and paste the vehicles

I have on my PC a folder with subfolders as in........

Garmion

CVS files - auto repair
- Hospitals
- Walmart

I have a garmin nuvi 755 T and was wondering is there a POI file for speed traps thru out the united states so when u r traveling u will know when a cop or stae trooper has a speed camera out and is watching ,if so can u post here and how to put it on my nuvi .I have the poi loader all ready do i need any thing else.Been doing a lot of research on here and notices a lot of POI's for i cons where d

The Nuvi 660 doesn't have built in waypoint functions.
Is there software that somehow helps fix this deficiency?

Or can I wipe out the Garmin software all together and put some sort of open source or freeware software on it.

Hello all--

Does anyone know how I would go about updating or changing the voice files on my kna-g510? Do I have to wait for software updates, or can I load them via a SD card? Also, for my proximity alerts for my custom POI's-have anyone with this unit had any luck changing the alert to a voice alert instead of the "bing!" sound? Thanks for any insight.

JF

Is there a 3rd party software that I could use to edit my Favorites on my Nuvi 260W?

I would like to add some additional information to some of them, that I cannot do via the GPS itself.

For example, I have the EuroMap NT installed (CN Europe NT 2010.20) on my SD card as a 2nd map, but the addresses do not show the full zip-codes (missing the 2 letters)...

My Garmin C580 will not turn on. I have plugged it in to my computer USB Cable, my car charger, and a different car charger. None of these work. I am out of warranty. Is there anything I can try?

are there a way to test a new poi on a garmin 760 with out going to the location just to make sure it works??? tks phillip