Garmin talk

Saw this posted on another forum today and thought this was pretty good news for those of us who purchased the lifetime maps and for those who were trying to decide if they should.

"For those like myself who are wondering about Lifetime Update and lost/stolen or defective systems and transfers, here's what I just got from Garmin (direct quote):

Does anyone know how good the coverage is? Can you type in an address and have it direct you to that point? I was looking at the Nuvi 275t or the 270. I plan on traveling in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland,Sweden, Poland and Denmark.

So is the final verdict that the American text is hard-coded in the firmware and you need to switch to the British English text file to be able to change the warning text displayed when the 760 turns on?

thanx,
mike

Found an issue with the 2D section in the SRFBldr and fixed it. I Also added an Unsharp Mask to give the pics more definition when the re-sampling blurs it too much.

Garmin making it's move in the Auto world

http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/garmin-expanding-to-of...

Didn't know this about my 250W. If you don't click agree at start up and then don't even click view maps, it will switch to map view after you start to move. I did know that the warning agreement will go away same as my 330 but I always had to click view map on that model. Makes for one less button to click when you head out.

Bob

My dad about a month ago bought a nuvi 255w after I reccomended it to him. For a month it worked fine until I moved back to Michigan and tried to make it better for him. First, I registered it for him on the Garmin site. We found out it was eligible for the updated 2009 map so I did that for him. The next thing I did was to install the Eco deal off the web site. Kinda fun to play with.

Greetings,

Besides the new 2010 Garmin City Navigator map being available, a new GTMxx firmware update is available for traffic receivers, at least for my nuvi 7x0 series:

Changes from version 5.30 to version 5.50:
Enhance subscription activation process to support subscriptions that apply to multiple countries.

According to another forum, the City Navigator NT 2010 maps are now available for download (file name Garmin_RMU_CNNANT2010.exe).

I just got a 760 today, so I'll be downloading the new map later tonight and reporting back.

EDIT: Looks like chewbacca was the first to report the new maps in the 2009 MAP UPDATES discussion at 00:48 this a.m.

the 255w has a gpx directory. In this directory is one file. Is this the file I have created? or was it created by Garmin initial load?

I have removed and loaded poi files to the poi directory on the 255w, and that has worked fine. Just wanted to see if gpx is handled in the same way.

Has anyone else noticed a recent lack of detail in their XM weather data? I have a Zumo 550 and have been using XM weather/traffic (NavTraffic subscription) for a bit over a year now. Noticed over the past 1-2 months the weather data seems to have less detail (forecast info, high/low temp data) for the same reporting stations I usually see forecast and other data for.

Is there a way to change the route that is programed in my Nuvi? I usually travel on a less traveled road than the GPS thinks I should be on so I continually get recalculating and wanting me to turn off of the road that I want to be on. I would like the unit to know where I want to be.

I have read with much interest many of the posts about the differences, good and bad, between the 780 and 785.

To date, it seems the single largest complaint people have about the 785/765 over the 780/760 is the lack of detail shown on the maps.

Has anybody downloaded and used the EcoRoute from the Garmin.com site? What has been your experience with the EcoRoute?

I live in Hawaii, and have an MSN Direct receiver for my Nuvi 205. Up until recently, I could use all the MSN services except for traffic, but very recently it seems as if they've added traffic coverage for Honolulu.

Supposedly I'm now supposed to get both Traffic Incidents and Traffic Speeds. I see the Incidents, but am wondering what the Traffic Speeds part is supposed to look like.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but Google hasn't given me any good info yet.

Every morning I drop my daughter off at school, then my son at the sitter's, and then I continue on to work. I'd like to be able to save that trip as one unit, so that I can view traffic along the route.

But on my Nuvi 205, I need to enter in the three points individually each morning when I start out.

I have the windshield mount and the bean bag mount for a nuvi. If you use both, it requires that you take the bracket off one and attach it to the other. I would like to use the windshield mount in my car, but would like to use the beanbag mount in my wife's car and rental cars.

I am concerned about the bracket connection wearing out by changing it many times.

Questions are these.

In general the precision and accuracy on my gps is OK. But I have noticed a huge variation in response "distance" approaching my POIs. For example, if I set the proximity alert to 500 meters, the response distance varies from 500 meters to no response at all! I have 8000 POIs on the GPS (is that the problem?).
Is that normal "behaviour"?

I own a Garmin nuvi 260. I also own a smartphone (AT&T Tilt) which has an internal GPS. I am thinking about ordering a copy of Garmin mobile XT for the phone.

I am going to Ireland this summer and have ordered the SD card with maps of ireland. Will I be able to use the card in the Nuvi, and then remove the card and put it in the smartphone and have Mobile XT access the card?

Thanks

I went on a motorcyle ride From Harley-Davidson, in Mcallen,TX to Dirty AL's at South Padre Is. Then back to the Harley Shop using a differnt route. I can load the route going to Al's, but when I try to load the route back, it devides into 3 routes.