Garmin talk

I am catagorizing my files for example: Campgrounds. Truck stops. Museums. etc, and some are showing up on the Zumo 550 but not all. Can I be exceeding the # of seperate catagories allowed under "extras" ?
Suggestions... Thanks in rainy Oh.

I am thinking about purchasing the Travel Guide for the Nuvi 350. I want it because of the destination descriptions and reviews provided by Fodor's.

I am wondering if this product is worth buying. The GPS Store sells the Travel Guide for $54. Are the descriptions and reviews accurate? Is there a better product that provides this type of information?

what is it exactly?

and

where can I get one?

I your NUVI is registered with Garmin is it automatically locked or is some other action required?
Thanks, JRO

Well my nuvi 680w was stolen last night and was wondering if I really needed a 680 or if there was another wide screen nuvi out there that does the same stuff for less money. Don't need the Microsoft Live thing and all i really did was load POI files on it.Never used the MP3 player or the Bluetooth.
Any suggestions on a replacement or just get another 680?
Thanks,
Brian

My friend bought the Europe Map for his Nuvi 360. He vacationed there. He bought it in 2006, used it for 3 weeks and has never used it again, nor does he plan to use it again for the foreseable future.

I am going to go to Europe and thought it would be great if I could load it on my 360 for the 2 weeks I will be there.

Say you are in Seattle and you want to go to Las Vegas.

You select Las Vegas on your unit and it plots a course from Seattle to Vegas via various roads and highways.

If you did the same thing (select from Seattle to Las Vegas) in Mapsource, would Mapsource pick the exact same route (same highways etc) as my nuvi?

Does anyone now how to uninstall the language guide from the nuvi unit? What files do I have to delete?

I have a Nuvi 350. I only use Mapsource to transfer maps from pc to GPS. Other than that, the function I want to use most is the route planning on pc and transfer the planned route to GPS. But it seems Nuvi 350 doesn't accept Mapsource's route.

Do you folks find any other uses of Mapsource?

Thanks.

Hi -

I had been saving all my custom POI's to my PC hard-drive, but the hard-drive failed recently and I had to re-load everything from scratch.

Hi Folks,

I'm TRYING to find where to put some custom GPI files on my Nuvi 660 so that when I go to TRAVEL GUIDE it will find them instead of showing me the message that I should contact Garmin. Is it possible to do this? Any ideas? The travel guides from Garmin come on memory sticks so there must be a way to link the files on the stick to the travel guide button on the Nuvi.

One of the reasons I wanted to get the Garmin 660 was for the FM transmitter. Once I used it, it works great, well ok. No FM transmitter is perfect and if you would to travel say from Arizona to California, you would have to change stations so many times.

Therefore, I have been researching a way to add an auxiliary input to my Honda Accord 2006 VP which doesn't come with one.

When using multiple maps (since I have yet to do this)and you travel from US to Europe and back, when you use the nuvi on a plane, do you just use the City Nav US map with the "off road" feature checked and zoomed way out until you get the signal then zoom in to an acceptable distance?

Hello Everbody,

First post here, so go easy on me. I have uploaded a few Mapsource files from my laptop onto my Nuvi, but I can't find them on the unit itself, I can't even find a place on the Nuvi to access these files. Am I doing something wrong or is this just not possible on the Nuvi?
I have successfully uploaded several POI's and am getting familier with those, but can't find the maps.

Just received my Garmin 2009 update DVD, can I update my two garmin gps device whit it, I have a nuivi 350 and just got a Zumo 550 for the bike .Do want to put both devices up to date .

I'm trying to convert gpi file to gpx file so i can us it with mapsource. Any one knows how to do this. I have read a lot of stuf on this site but have not seen any thing to help so far.

all the sounds that i try to download come on the player in fast speed sound like the chip monks sounded.

what am i doing wrong?

And today I recieved my Nuvi 770 via UPS. I hope I wont have those dang three lightening bolts that would never go away on my 680's. I figure after waiting over 8 months for them to fix the problem they can have it back. Im most impressed with Customer Service, but not all that impressed with the software Dept of Garmin.

i have recently submitted a question to Garmin's support asking them about all the serial numbers and unlock numbers on my product page there when I login to my account. I have no idea what to do with these numbers especially the mapsource one since my garmin didn't come with mapsource software, so I have no idea what to use that for.