Garmin talk

I am obviously new to the Garmin GPS (760) arena and can't figure out 3 things: 1) how do I key in a normal destination (i.e. to Denver from Dallas) and include Rest Areas POI at the same time?

Could one of you tech savy users create .bmp files for Staples and Wingstop?

Thanks,
rtaggi

It seems we have a new vehicle.

http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/product.html?vName=teamGarmi...

I noticed that some of the POI's show up in the middle of the road, now if its a back road two lane thats fine. An expample of what I am talking about is the Starbucks POI's all seem to be in the middle of the highway. At a busy intersetion with 4 lanes of traffice and 4 shopping plaza'a on each of the intersetions, locating the POI can be quite a problem.

If you have one set on Custom POIs stored on the Internal Memory of a Garmin unit and another set of POIs on a SD Card how does the Unit display them? Are both sets of Custom POIs "grouped together" and listed as One set of Custom POIs or are the listed Separately?

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I can't see the road I'm currently driving on. I know you can with TomTom and Magellan and I was wondering if I am missing something on the 205W.
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anyone else have to get a wired fm transmitter due to dropages with the wireless fm or is it just the nuvi 760?

I bought a monster fm transmitter and love it

cosmo4u

This worked for me, I told Garmin I've been having intermittent problems with my nuvi 760 freezing up. I mailed it in, and in a week they mailed me back with a refurbished unit with a different serial number. I then regestered it and it came up as a newly purchased unit. And i got a FREE map update, i had my 760 since xmas.

How do I put audio books for a site called audiobooksforfree.com on my nuvi 350? Every time I download a book and try to install it with the poi loader it say it does not reconize any files to be loaded. Help this is one of the resons I got the nuvi 350.

Will someone tell me where to place the file, Sox.exe?

I have downloaded it and extracted it from the .zip file. I placed it in several different places on my PC where Garmin files are located, but when I use the Garmin POI loader to install my pois a message comes back telling me that the sox.exe file cannot be located.

What am I not doing?

Thanks.

I am trying to download from my Garmin c340 street pilot to my computer and then upload them in to my new nuvi 350. How do I do this I can't figure this out. Thanks you any help.

Besides being enthused about Le Tour de France and Team Garmin, I'm excited about the new Felt Bicycle vehicle that I used on a cycling trail this morning.

But I've noticed some curious things about this new vehicle:

• it only displays properly in 3D View
• it changes to a blue triangle if you touch the map
• it switches to a blue triangle after zooming out 12 levels

1.) No excuses....

2.) I offer a sincere apology to all in this forum for my behavior last week when I over-reacted to the lack of an answer to my question about SD memory cards within a few minutes. I said something like no one having interest in answering a newbee's question about SD memory cards in a Garmin c330.

I have a new PC (within last 3 days) and when I plug Nüvi 200W into the USB port it does not show a Garmin drive. If an SD card is in the device the SD card shows up as a drive but the Nüvi still does not show up.

Any suggestions on what to try?

Thanks!

Is it possible to convert the cvs files to GPX files using GPSbabel?

Hi all just joined up and would to ask about memory cards. How much is adequate(spelling???)is 2gb's overkill if you want to combine poi's,mp3,city guides, etc. or should they all be separate go to costco and buy a bunch of 512mb's and label them, hope I'm making sense.
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I am using a Nuvi 350 which I have had since October (and absolutely love). I only recently found out about these POI alerts and such.

Here's what is going on. To practice this I created a 'Redlight' type proximity alert for my house that would alert me when I passed near home and play a mp3 file, etc.

I recently upgraded from a garmin Quest to an nuvi 650. I liked how the quest would start and go into map mode automatically. The nuvi, on the other hand, shows the menu with options. I couldn't find a way to change this behavior in the manual.

Does anyone know if this can be changed or is that just the way it works?

As a relatively new nuvi 760 owner, I'm not sure what to expect with regard to performance of the FM traffic service. According to the coverage map, I have been well within the "green zone" north of Baltimore, yet have mixed results . At times the signal locks in (green led on the receiver) and traffic information is readily available and quite helpful.

So, I bought a new 650 to replace my 350 and when I went to register my new product, I got a pop up menu stating I qualified for a new map update (which I went and downloaded, and installed). My question is, since I got a new unlock code for the 2009 map, I haven't used the one that came with the unit (one that comes with the orange paper in the box).