Garmin talk

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I flew to NY City this past weekend. I carried my Nuvi 660 on board. Out of curiosity, I turned it on hoping to find my location up in the air. I flipped the antenna open. After 20 minutes, the GPS still tried to locate the satellite. I finally turned it off. It was a cloudless day. I have seen some postings here about using the GPS on board a plane. What did I do wrong?

As we know the c330 will not hold all of the North American maps, if you purchase the 2009 update could you save the maps to a SD card using mapsource to get all of North America in one place?

what custom POI's do you have on your GPSr?!

Has any one had problems on 05/03 or 05/04 with reception in your area?

Sorry about this question but, where do i go to update the software (if it's even necessary), and to get the new maps?
Do i still have to purchase them?? I got this as a gift this past Christmas (12-07)

It seems we get continued access to red light camera alert updates just for staying up to date in the site such as with discussion. This place is awesome!

Hi - I have seen this discussed before, but my question results from frustration wrt my Nuvi 370 in Montreal (foot). I had already used in Montreal, so no issue of moving 300 miles and such. But when I went to use, I would see 3 strong satellites quite quickly, with the outline (totally unfilled in) of another perhaps 6 or so.

Is it possible to put in all rest areas on a choosen route in a NUVI 360 with icons shown and alarm notification 2 miles before you reach the rest area?

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Does anyone here own a Garmin iQue3600? My in law had one and it acted up and no longer display the device ID and thus locked up the map. I wonder if anyone here has seen it before.

Jeff

FYI, my Nüvi is about 30 days out of warranty and was having some problems. I contacted Garmin and they worked with me on the phone trying to fix the issue. After no results the asked me to send it in and when I asked how much the out of warranty repair would cost the tech told me just send it in and they would fix or replace it at no charge.

when you update your garmin gps does about three or four times a year does it fill up your hard drive on your gps?

again thanks in advance to all of those experts who can help this redneck with my dummie questions - using the POI LOADER to install poi's on my nuvi 350 -WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Garmin Device / mapsource(advanced) / custom folder(advanced)

I don't know how many of the Nuvi people already know about this, but here's a site I ran across on another forum.

http://snipurl.com/garmin_gps_tricks

Hi,

Curious as of how to read the signal strength screen to my nuvi 350. Particularly interested in the circle with satellites on it on the left. I see a red dot on the outer circle... Where am I in relation to this - am I the red dot -or in the center of the circle?

Also why does the gps unit need 4 satellites for triangulation. Doesn't "tri"angulation mean "3"?

TIA,

--Rob

I recently bought a nuvi 350, which is my very first car GPS unit. I am also new to this forum. I noticed that Garmin uses and announces many county road (CR) names instead of rea; street names. This is quite odd, since most people use the posted real street name instead of the CR numbers. It's quite confusing. Have you had this problem with nuvi, do other GPS product have the same problem?

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I have started a project to create railroad crossing poi's.I know its a big task but after hearing some people getting killed at these crossings, i though it would be a good ideas to have these poi's with alerts like you would have your speed traps and redlight camera alerts.But i wanted to know if these poi's exist?I tried looking for a list of crossings online for research but haven't found any.