Garmin talk

My Garmin 250W came with a plug in charger for the car, but I did not get anything to charge it while in a house. If I plug it into the computer wit the USB cable, does that also charge the battery?
Thanks.

Mike

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4357

Change History
Changes made from version 3.00 to 3.10:

* Corrected issue that caused some map areas to draw on top of the roads.

I have a nuvi 350 and installed two TourGuide POI's - McDonalds.csv with a distance of 3 miles and NP _towers.csv with a distance parameter of 15 miles. When they overlap, I only get the prompt for McDonalds which is the nearer one. What is happening to the alerts for NPR?
If they are "active" how do I "see" them.

With Appreciation

John

Maybe this is a dumb question but I have searched and can't seem to find the answer. I let my traffic expire, actually I thought it was lifetime but Garmin says it was only 90 days. It's a 770. So, I thought I would purchase the lifetime deal but I can't find the unit id.

OK - I'm heading for Miami to catch a cruise ship going to Caribbean. I've got a nuvi 750. Why can't I plot a route from Miami to Barbados using pedestrian mode?? It tries to calculate and says it runs out of memory.
Can I track the ship, at least, and see where we are located. Maybe I can help the captain navigate!! What about the tracklog feature. Does it work over water.

Changes made from version 4.00 to 4.30:

* Adjust FM transmitter performance for Europe
* Improved category searching capability with newer maps
* Fixed Safety Camera announcements to be in the correct language
* Improved MSN Direct support
67mb via webupdater

I've tried every possible way I can think of to download tracks from Mapsource to my Quest of a trail ride that a friend took through the Ozark National Forest. Mapsource appears to do the transfer correctly by showing the transfer progression bar and then saying 'the data was successfully sent'. However, the tracks do not show up when I look for them in the Quest.

I'm new with Garmin and received my 255W at Christmas.

Even though it came with the 2009 map, I upgraded it to the latest 2009.11 map. I also updated whatever using the webupdater, of course Ecoroute was installed with it and who knows what else.

So here's the question - Is it possible that with the 2009.11 update that it will start navigating with a different route?

Hello new to this having a had time loading poi icon on my garmin 755t, same with the sound can someone help me.

I received external antenna for my Nuvi 765. I connect antenna to my nuvi and put the antenna on the roof top. When I checked signal stength, it was very good and showing 3 meter accuracy. While driving on high, GPS lost signal 3-4 times. I never had this problem before. Is it a defective antenna? I will appreciate your advice.

Nuvi 765 or 7x5 models have Globe View of the map but I could not figure it out how it works. Has anyone enabled Globe View? I will appreciate your feed back.

I bought a Garmin 260 in June, 2008 and every time I use it I'm impressed. We're spending 2 months in the south while there is snow in Illinois and we've use it to find restaurants, post offices, Wal Marts, state parks, libraries and grocery stores. It's never failed us and we always arrive on target. What did I do before Garmin when I only had state road maps?

I was wondering if anyone has or know where I can find a poi file for all the Ford dealerships in the country. I pickup and bring back cars for a ford dealership in my area. Now I already bought a Garmin 350 and dont want to pay for a new one thru ford so I can have that information. I was hoping to find a poi file that I can download to my Garmin 350. Any suggestions or ideas are welcome!

I'm trying to use Easy GPS or some other free software to help me add POIs to my Nuvi 260.

I came across this thread for a qwerty keyboard on the garmap.com website. I did it with my 200W so I would assume it will work with other widescreen Nuvi's.

http://www.garmap.co.za/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4525&KW=qw...

It uses the British English.gtt file in the TEXT folder under the GARMIN folder when the nuvi is plugged into the USB port of your computer.

Ha guys custom POI file for State owened land for hunting will be a great POI. Tell me what you think and how this is done. Charge may be 5 bucks for the POI FACTORY, this is as big as red light cams or bigger.

Can someone tell me if there is a place to document map errors with Garmin? I've run into several locations that the GPS says two roads connect and also Interstate exits no longer existing.

I have a Nuvi 2000 with maps 2009 loaded, however, the POI's did not update when the new map downloaded. So I have POI's to places that either no longer exist or never existed at the coordinates listed. I want to remove these old coordinates and install correct ones without creating a custom POI folder.

So before I was able to check the screen size on the included sample pictures on my Garmin 250W, I deleted them. Now the pictures I add are displayed small when they should fill the frame. What is the optimum screen size 640X480...1024X800 or what? If it is going to be used as a viewer while on the road then it would be nice to see an image larger that what I see now on my camera screen.

Bob

I have a friend who wants to update his nuvi 370 USA map. It has Europe as well. I have a different nuvi that has the US maps only. He's confused on updating and asked for help. What I need to know, is the update for the 2009 US map going to overwrite both US and Europe or does he need USA and Europe to update them?