Garmin talk

While looking at my GPSCity.ca account today I stumbled across the sales pages for my very first Nuvi back in 2005. Look at the price I paid for that thing compared to the DriveLuxe50 I got a couple of weeks ago. All prices are in Canadian Dollars:

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I set up a route and mistakenly set a via a few feet beyond an intersection where I wanted to turn.
For the remainder of the route the GPS kept prompting me to make a "U" turn in order to get back to that via.
Is there a way to easily cancel that via and continue on the route? I'm using a 3597.

Few days ago, in conversation with Neighbor .... How to get to this location????...
"Why don't you borrow my GPS?"
I programmed the destination in 660, and showed him how to get past the password on power up, Select a saved destination, and after he got there, how to select our "Home"....

Got it back yesterday.... Worked fine!

I have seen some posts about Door-to-Door and Logical Addressing. Can somebody please clarify the difference in these two terms for me, if any.

Also, what is the benefit of these features?

It looks like GPSCity has Garmin DriveLuxe 50LMTHD (refurbished) for $159.99 on eBay. Just in case anyone interested.

I've got the Garmin Drive 50, how the hell do I remove the restaurant and other unwanted symbols on the screen, it's showing every thing from fast food to full restaurants............

In simple language I can understand, with photo's if possible....

mick

My GPS saw low battery, and then screen becomes blank. I don't know where battery is. Then, I may unplug and replug and it will work again. Don't want this to happen when traveeling unfamiliar routes.

I just purchased a Garmin Drive 51 and noticed the junction view file only to be about 118MB. This is after updating to the latest NA Navigator NT map (not sure what it was before). For Map it states the lower 49 states.

My Garmin Nuvi 50 lm is not showing certain towns in Missouri. both towns that I have tried are not listed in the alphabetical order of the cities and towns in Missouri. I have downloaded new maps through Garmin Express and even hard crashed my GPS with the same issues. Any suggestions on improving this issue.

Thanks!

Jimmac47

Anyone know of a way to "revitalize" the silicone (I think that's what it is) bottom portion of a Garmin friction mount so it sticks to the dashboard better?

A happy and glorious 4th of July to you south of our border.

I do not know if any other built in GPS's use DB3 files, but here is a VW website in German where you can convert any GPX, CSV, ASC, KMZ or KML files into a DB3 file. In other words it lets you convert your own files into the DB3 format.

This German VW site has ceased to function !!!!!!! Oct.7th-2017

This is the German VW website:

I'll put this into the Garmin thread since I consider it my "home" forum.

This a link to the "GPS DATA TEAM" website. From this site you can download POI's for the particular format your vehicles built in GPS requires. They permit non-members to download from their website.

My VW RNS-510 for example requires any POI's with a "filename.DB3" to install into the RNS-510.

I have looked at Garmin RINOs in the past, but I really could never justify getting them. Yesterday, however, my wife and I went ATVing with some friends of ours. My wife mentioned that it would be nice to be able to talk with one another while we are riding.

I posted a couple of years ago a situation where my Nuvi 850 was showing a speed limit of 2km/h in a couple of locations; also appeared on my 2597 and now on my DriveSmart 50. The thing is that now it appears in several other locations and it "seems" that with every new s/w update a new area appears - there are now approx 5 or 6 areas.

Available Storage Space

The DriveLuxe 50 arrived with 8GB of internal storage of which 7.02GB was usable and 1.37GB free.

After updating to map version 2018.20 and the system software to version 5.20, there was 799MB free, and reinstalling the Foursquare database file brought that down to 610MB.

My refurbished DriveLuxe arrived in a box that would leave little doubt that it was a refurb:

http://imgur.com/a/uhus5

That being said the unit and all the supplied cables and connections were in perfect condition and if it wasn't for the box I wouldn't have been able to tell it from a completely new unit.

I received a refurbed DriveLuxe50LMTHD yesterday and among other things that are different between it and my Nuvi 3597 is the addition of a couple of new Trip Data Options which some may find helpful.

I am a longtime Garmin user, and off-roader. I've been quite happy with previously owned Nuv1 50 and Nuvi 52. I plan off road excursions with Garmin Basecamp, several topo maps and GE, of course. Since the unit cannot be trusted to navigate poorly known dirt roads, I create lots of waypoints in Basecamp, copy them to the Nuvi unit, and follow my waypoints like breadcrumbs. Works like a charm.

Where does the time go. It just seems like yesterday
July 1st-1867
Happy 150th !!!