Garmin talk

Don't know if anyone is interested but Meijer's has an online sale going for the Garmin c550 for 169.49 with an aditional 10% off. I am not sure if it is still on but when I picked mine up they had free shipping.

Don't we usually get an e-mail warning when our traffic subscription runs out?

I was driving out of town on a camping trip Thursday and the 101 freeway stopped cold with no warning. I looked at my trusty GPS and found out that my traffic subscription expired without warning.

When I got back into town today, I renewed, but I thought it would warn me before shutting off.

Some of them are pretty funny but I wondered if they had 'all' of what the Nuvi needed to give you directions? Has anyone on here bought a new voice?

Instead of booting up my computer or using the Yellow Pages to find the nearest XYZ store -- I go get my Garmin out of the car & look it up. Recently it found me the closest tire store, Baskins Robbins, and Tractor Supply store.

Connecting my 880 to my laptop, RT clicking Properties
shows 1.92 GB USED and 1.56 GB FREE, a capacity of 3.48 GB. I assume this is MEMORY, since I have no SD card in the slot.

I passed thru Greensboro on I-40 last week and according to my Nuvi 660, I was driving thru peoples yards at
65+ mph. Anybody know how new that stretch of highway is? I suspect it's not in the latest map.

I have several addresses I would like to load into my Garmin 370 as POIs. How do I do that? Can I input the addresses into Google Earth and then copy the coordinates into the Garmin somehow.

John

Hi everyone,

I apologize if this has already been answered somewhere else in this forum but I didn't find an answer in the FAQs. To run in Silent mode, call POI Loader from the command line with the Silent mode option enabled, for example:

> PoiLoader.exe /silent

How does one "call POI Loader from the command line...?" I'm on a PC running Windows XP if that helps.

Thanks

I just bought a 660 and SanDisk 1GB SD card.When I try to transfer MP3's or Audibel books to the SD card, my computer says the SD card needs to be formatted. When I try to format it through the 660, it says it cannot.

Exchanged the card for a new one (suggested by SanDisk), with the same results. Anyone experience this or have any ideas?

Thanks.

I want to upload the fire hydrant icon to my nuvi200 so i can log all the hydrants in our distict on the gps. Is there a way to get the icon uploaded to the map symbols?

Has anyone experimented with creating an Audiobook with M4B extension and trying in on the 760? If you put the file on the SD card, do you need to create a directory for Audiobooks?

I have had my Garmin 260W for about a month and just started working with POI's.
Using POI Loader, I have successfully loaded some sites on to my GPS. For various reasons, again using the POI Loader,I have removed them.

Don't leave your brain at home when you use your GPS.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/weird/article14474...

In running the POI Loader (Newest one) just now, I received a message that a subfolder was limited to 32 files. I divided the folder up and it ran OK but has this limit always been there? I thought I had other folders that big but maybe not.

Hey,
Before I purchase a North America Metroguide, what does it really do? Any advantages over whats pre-installed in the unit?
Thanks

Newbie with a Nuvi 360

Hello!

I recently discovered the Garmin Geocache feature. Using that I loaded 10 of the nearest caches. However, is there a way to find them under POI's or in the menu...because currently I can only find treasure boxes on browsing the map...the problem with that is you can't view any additional information on the cache.

Any tips would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Whiskey990

I dropped over to my local Staples store today and found a 2gb SD card for my 880, less than $20.

They had the Garmin brand hard sort of beanbag mount for same price as the Garmin shop online, $39.95 I think. Other accessories too.

They had many of the Nuvis there, but no 880s.

I just saw a post in another thread that mentioned buying Ozzy's voice for his GPS. Was just talking with my family today about how much fun could be had with the voices. Didn't realize it was possible but then duh! I got a little bitty computer telling me where I am on the planet's surface so why not custom voices?

Are they available for Garmins and if so, where are the best sources?

Downloaded the 2009 updates and was able to find my son's address in a new sub-division in Bolingbrook Illinois, also, the POI's for the rest stops were a great help.
I keep singing the praises of my Nuvi760

I have a 25 mile commute around Baltimore to and from work. At first the traffic information I got from my Nuvi 660 (FM TMC) was pretty good but it seems to have gotten worse recently. I'm a traffic junkie, I watch the traffic online before I leave and listen to the reports on the radio. The traffic info I am getting from my Nuvi is usually at least half an hour out of date.