Garmin talk

i see these options:

1O Garmin Device
2O MapSource (Advanced)
3O Custom Folder (Advanced)

i used to download from my POI folder on my computer to the garmin SD card ( say K- drive)

now which option would i use here ?
1 or 3 ?

Currently I am traveling from Portland, OR to the Napa Valley in CA. I am using a Garmin StreetPilot C550. Is there a way to just input a city without putting in a street number an street name? When I return to New Jersey, July 5th I will post my travels and the use of my Garmin StreetPilot C550 as I have used a lot out West.

Help me understand this:

At the end of July, I have to go to Rockville, MD. So on my Nuvi 750, went under settings and created a route from Dulles airport to my hotel. Cool...so far.

What I'm failing to understand is:
A: How do I use that "route" created vs. just arriving at the airport, get my rental car, acquire signal, goto my "favorite" hotel.

Am I the only one that's noticed that the mileage (well at least my) c340 tells me a poi is away is way off of what it winds up being?

Has anyone had trouble finding a signal after rebooting their Nuvi (660)?

Is there a setting in the Nuvi 660 to not take you down dirt roads when trying to go to an address?

I have a 1gig SD card but I can not get the POI loader to reconize it to store POI files, can any one help?

On my Nuvi 780 it leaves a blue line to show the route that you've already driven. But it never goes away. Is there a way to clear that?

I got a nuvi 200w 2 weeks ago. And I've always wondered why the need for custom POIs when my unit came with 6 million? Well, my question was answered twice this past weekend on my first long trip with it going from Ohio to Tennessee.

I have a Nuvi 650. Is there a way to map routes on my computer and download onto the Nuvi for future use.
thanks.

When I load the red light camera file onto my Garmins, is there anything special I need to do for it to automatically warn me? Is this different from a normal POI file?

The Zumo 450 only comes with a mount for a motorcycle. Perhaps someone knows which mount to purchase would provide car windshield mount? I want to use this in my car too. There are several car mounts for cars to use with a zumo 450 and with a wide range of prices. The price range is significant and it is confusing.

Is there a expire date to recieve the free 2009 map update. Wife got me a Zumo 450, but I won't get to see it for another couple weeks. I heard on a motorcycle forum that the free update ends either July or August. Is this true?

What else can they add to these units??

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147617/garmin_...

Does anyone have suggestions for useful Nuvi 250W add-on items for the Europe mapset? Particularly Ireland, UK, France and Italy.

A comment was made in one of the other threads mentioning that it isn't possible to organize your Mp3 collection in different folders on the Garmin nuvis, nor is it possible to create a playlist containing songs that are located in different folders. Well...because I can't stand to have thousands of files from different artists all in the same folder, I set out to find a way to do it!

I'm using Garmin XT on my handphone and loaded a POI .csv file from this site with Garmin POI loader. The csv file has 4 columns with the coordinates, name and address.

When I lookup the POI on the handphone, the address which is the fourth column are missing. Has anyone faced this problem before? What can be done? Thanks!

I just returned from a trip and was able to use my 780 on the plane during a cross country trip. Everything worked great during the flights, but for some reason I am unable to view the track logs of the flights in Mapsource. I copied the Current.gpx file as usual but when I open it in Mapsource all I see are the tracks generated while driving, before and after the flights.

How do I get .bmp icons onto my Garmin NUvi 760?

Thanks

Can I get POIs to show up on my map?

If so, how do I do this and can I give them a special Icon or something ?

HOw about alerts too?