Garmin talk

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/59...

If I am driving a Route and I want to know of eating places where I am. Do I have to go back to the Menu and start at the Where To, an than the POIs, or is there another way to get to the POIs without going back to the Main Menu.

Yes I’m a newbie so I am just learning.

My nuvi 780 recently got the dreaded freeze on "Loading Maps..."; doing soft and hard resets as well as making sure everything was up to date on it didn't solve the problem.

FYI

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=325474

I know this has been beat to death, but I created a csv with my home coordinates and description of MiCasa.

(Also posted in Creating POI files section.)

Have an mp3 named MiCasa.mp3
CSV is named MiCasa.csv

Is there a way to make a setting or something on my Garmin to give me a warning when I go over a certain speed limit (kind of like the warning that goes off before you come upon a red-light camera/speeding camera)? I know that the Garmin can't tell you what the speed limit is on the street you're on.

I started up the old Garmin, hit the favorites button and all of my favorites had disappeared. All that was showing were the 3 Garmin offices. Wouldn't have been too upsetting except, that I had to go someplace that I had only been to once and didn't have the address. Luckily, I was able to find my delivery location.

Is there any way of fooling your 265wt into accepting routes you've created in Mapsource, Mapquest, or Google Earth? Can I put routes on an SD card and then access them in my GPS? For instance....On a long trip, day one point "A" to point "B", day two point "B" to point "C", and lastly day three Point "C" to point "E" through point "D".

between map updates, say like north america 2009.10, 2009.20, etc is there anywhere we can find what areas are updated or the changes between maps? put another way, is there a way we can find it's worth the effort to upgrade?

thanks!

Garmin Nuvi 255w

I saw a thread somewhere about how/why map symbols will show up as you drive. I can have my custom poi's show as I hit them but not any others. I have seen a nuvi before show a little bank symbol as you drive by a bank but its is not a custom poi. I have tried switching to 2D i have tried zooming in/out all to no avail. Anyone have any experience with this?

mucho thankso

I have loaded the RLC alerts on all of our Gps units.

But my wife HATES the annoying "Bong-Bong" and complains every time it goes off. ( Ya... I know.... she'll complain if she gets a ticket too.)

Is there a way to turn off the alerts and not have to delete them? Or at least turn off the volume of the alert only and leave the directions voice alone ?

Thanks

Does anyone here use Garmin Mobile XT for Symbian S60 particularly with Nokia 5800 Xpress Music (or any other S60 5th edition phone)? Does it freeze a lot?

Here's a list of problems with GMXT ver. 5.00.50 for Symbian S60:
- Incorrect horizontal view (map gets split 75%, 25%)

Has anybody had a problem
With the battery in a 755t.
My new one which I just received
On warrenty only lasts 30 minutes.
I talked to Garmin support and it
Looks like we are beta testers again.
It is a software issue.
They are working on getting it fixed.

Hi all,

Where is the data for the stock POIs stored in the Nuvi, and is there an update? They have restaurants, etc. listed and I noticed that a pizza place they have in there has since changed names a couple of times since the one they list, and we're talking at least 3 or 4 years ago.

Is that data stored in the 006D135900 file? If not, where is it coming from, the basemap?

Thanks,

I am looking to get a hand held GPS ,it needs to be colour,detailed and easy to use.

Just had a quick question...I pre-ordered my Nokia N900 from amazon for $582.99, and since it is a Linux based OS, the GMXT will not work on it since GMXT only supports WM/Symbian OS. So my question was, how can I contact garmin, and plead to them to support GMXT with MAEMO OS?

thanks for the advise,

Priyank

Avoiding roads by name and areas.

I have a 855 and just discovered a nice feature with the 805 series Nuvi's. (It turns out to be in the 800 series also.)

I only find reference to this feature in the downloaded 805 series manual.

When I use my 265WT and I'm driving along the Allen XPY In Toronto. I notice on my map that thier is an orange ring on the landscape. I've seen it other places, what is it? what does it want? Anyone know?

Can someone please point to a site with instructions as how to use Extra POI editor to create Tourguides?