Garmin talk

It would be really helpful if Canadian and US truck routes were marked.
(and maybe the more flirtatious truck stop waitresses?)

Also places like malls and big box retailers who allow us to park for an hour or two.
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I am just curious, I have loaded some csv files successfully with the associated bmp files onto my garmin nuvi 350. The only problem is I'd like to see them in the map mode when it's navigating to it instead of only when I look up the custom poi and then click "Map".

In the Washington DC area, there are many roads that change configuration at various times of day. For instance, Interstate 66 in Virginia inside the beltway is HOV-3 during rush hours, Beach Drive in DC is closed on weekends, and Research Road between Beltsville and Greenbelt, Maryland closes at 6pm weekdays.

Anyone find any answers on this? I can't even find my built-in icons when in "MAP" or navagation. I can only see them if I pan the map. Then when I go back to "MAP" there gone again???? I've tried 2D and zoom.....WAZUP???? I'd like to try to load some custom POI's but....GEEE I'd like to master this obsticle first. Can anyone help or direct me to a thread. I've tried to no avail to find one.

I disable mine, its annoying it keeps recalculating to take local, or service road, not realising theres traffic there as well, as it only reports highways, and main roads.

It also messes up my arrival time, thinking its avoiding traffic, I like to see a realistic arrival time, its usually pretty good, been getting better, it used to be very off (traffic time).

Bought a nuvi 750 Tuesday and downloaded some POI's that evening along with the POI Loader. Went through the exercise and expected that I could then see the downloaded POIs by accessing the POI screen in the nuvi. For instance if I wanted to go to dunkin donuts, while traveling, I could find it on the screen and have nuvi take me there. Is this not how it works?

I downloaded the latest software update for my 880 the other day, but they did not have installation instructions.

If I am wrong, please correct me before I mess up something.

First, I connect my Garmin to the computer and put it in mass storage mode with the USB cable. Then I double click on the software update, and follow instructions.

i had my Jack TTS do alot of stuttering and asked my contact to send me a link to the latest files - Voila, i got in the mail the link with the latest voices.
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I just got a Garmin 750 and there are no schools in the POI, we travel alot for Fooball. Any idea where I could find the schools?

Does anyone know what causes the nüvi to select an often significantly different route from point B to point A than it took to get from A to B? This is not due to one-way roads and I've even seen it sandwich the different section of the route between segments that use the same road/interstate in the opposite direction.

I was about to buy a C330 but read on this forum that it cannot utilize the POI data from the SD card. To me the ability to access all of this data is one of the greatest features to have. My question is : can the Nuv 200 utilize POIs that I download from this site (or others)? TIA Ken

I have had my Nuvi 260 for less than 1 year and have noticed the battery life is now very poor. I will charge it, then use it until the low battery signal then charge it again. I never leave it plugged in all the time. At first it would slowly drain & now it seems to drain very quickly (2 hours).

Any one else have this issue?

Hello all, my name is Doug. I just ordered my garmin nuvi 200. It will be delivered to my doorstep on 8/25, just in time for my trip to MD. I did alot of reasearching before buying. All the reviews I read, people had nothing but good things to say about the nuvi 200. Staples.com had it on sale, bestbuy.com had the nuvi 250w on sale. I decided to go with the cheaper 200, since I am a new GPS user.

my msn adapter quite working thank i spilled soda on it any way to fix it? also if i buy a new one can i transfer my msn to the new adapter?

My pc crashed and lost all my POIs. I still have them on the SD card in the gps, is there a way to get them back on the pc ?

I would like to backup my 660. Is it the Garmin folder that I copy ?

I was browsing through the UK part of the Garmin web site and came across some downloadable routes for "Great British Drives". I'm not sure I agree with all their choices, but the mini-site has some in-car video footage that you might like.

(It's from drive #1 - Keswick to Lake Windermere).

http://www8.garmin.com/uk/GBD/

i would like to upload the TTS update only, but when using the webupdater, i am forced to first download fw 3.10 ( not going to that for sure )
is there a website where you can dowload only the TTS
(favorite is Jack, but he seems to stutter a little)

My Nuvi 260 has never failed me since I bought last April. Today it was totally confused. When I turned it on and I had all 5 green satellite bars, I pressed GO to my Dr. office and when the screen came it showed an area with street names that I had no idea where I was. It then went into recalculate; the new screen had a different area and street names than the first, still not right.