Garmin talk

The Garmin Web Updater & POI Loader seem to work fine and dandy under Windows Vista.

yes, I have a new computer...

I have the Garmin 530 and I would like to know if there is a storage limit for POIs

Is there a difference in the base maps of the Nuvi 360 and Nuvi 660. I own both and can't tell the difference in the maps on the unit, but Garmin shows this on their site:

Nuvi 360:
Americas Lite Routable

Nuvi 660:
Preloaded City Navigator® NT North America(full coverage)

I stumbled upon this one. By pressing in the bar status for about 4-6 seconds a "foot accuracy" window appears. I believe showing the global satellite positions ? Any answers to this ?

Murray Blandford E.C.
www.iwire4u.com

Hello

Hi all;

I requested a copy of Mapsource from Garmin tech support. They did not give me any hassle and sent it for free.

Now that I have Mapsource, I created a route with 2 way points. I sent this to my nuvi via the "send to device." I also saved the route in a .gpx file, and copied this to the SD card.

I went to the nuvi to lookup the route. No luck. The way points showed up in the "favorites", but no routes? In addition, I can't seem to access the SD card except for MP3's.

I just put in an sd card (1gb) and then hooked up to download som poi's. I have some poi's already in the unit's memory. when I tried to load the new poi's it said not enough memory. it apparently is trying to load the new poi's into the unit rather than the sd memory but I see no options anywhere to chose the sd memory as opposed to the sd card. Is anyone familiar with what to do here?

Thanks,

My garmin nuvi is gettign reset during charging if the power source is slightly removed. The unit starts to think that it is plugged into the PC USB port and then freezes and then resets itself automatically. It happened to me couple of times.

FYI, I updated my software with latest recently. Could it be because of that ?

Please comment.

I found that the latest version of Nuvi 360 software that I upgraded yesterday adds the "Proximity Points" under the settings to change Alert settings for Custom POIs and Safety Cameras.

I found that the lower right corner show me the distance to the next turn or exit. But I could not find a way to tell me the total distance to the destination. I have seen magellan units giving this kind of detail so hoping that garmin also provide the same. Is there any kind of stting to view that information ?

How often are maps updated? Are the updates free?

I have a c340. If I enter some speed alerts (by using a file name of "SpeedAlert_30.csv"), the POI Loader creates the speed alert at 30 mph, but it also automatically calculates a distance alert of 1585 ft., which is adds to each POI in the file.

I find that distance alert to be WAY too long.

Even though POI Loader will assign both alerts, it doesn't allow ME (in manual mode) to specify both speed and distance alerts for a specific .csv file. I am forced to choose one or the other, but I don't want to sacrifice my speed alert in order to configure my distance alert to a shorter distance.

Wow - this place is fantastic!

I just got a Garmin C340 for my B-Day about a month ago. I picked the C340 over a TomTom One - I guess more for the fact it actually gives the street rather than "turn right". It's simple to use, that's for sure. I've started to download POI's (the reason I stumbled here...lol).

Are there any "tricks" or enhancements for the C340 to download & play with?

Reading some of the posts of Garmin users, I doubt whether they can access the hard drive of their GPS units while connected to PC. When you connected to the PC using USB cable, does the GPS show as another removable drive? My c330 certainly does not show like that. Or is their any other way of accessing the internal hard drive to find out how much is full, what is in there etc.?

I have a nuvi 360 and I connect to the Samsung A900 via Bluetooth.
When I dial a POI the nuvi inserts a "+" to the number. Example: +1-111-111-1111. My phone does not like the "+." Anyone know how to remove the prefix?

I realize this is by design, but the super-simple and barely configurable interface on the StreetPilot c340 is almost too simple for my taste.

The unit is very intuitive -- anybody can learn how to use it in a matter of minutes -- and it is exactly the unit I would purchase for my wife or daughter.

However, if you have owned other GPS units (e.g. handheld) in the past, or if you are just one of those people who enjoy configuring and/or viewing a large number of settings, this might not be the best unit for you.

What a great-looking and extremely helpful web site! I have already found on this site most of the answers I was looking for.

(This is my very first post to the site.)

Here's a question for which I did not find an answer: The "Color Mode" on my StreetPilot c340 can be set to a light background ("Daytime"), a black background ("Nighttime"), or it can be set to automatically switch between the two modes ("Auto"). Does anyone know how it decides exactly when to switch modes? My guess is that it possibly calculates sunrise and sunset times based on my physical location and the date, but I can't find any documentation to that effect.

I am curious to know if anyone else uses the Garmin Traffic Service and what they think of it. I drive mainly city roads in Washington, DC and there is virtually no information via the service. Is it limited to highway circumstances? Thanks.

Saw this elsewhere, and thought it would be something others here would be interested in - how to get to a system info/diagnostics screen set for Nuvis - works for my 350, should work for others Nuvi models, possibly others too...

on the last couple of long trips that I have used the nuvi 350 I have got 'a better route is available' prompt.

The prompt came up after a couple of hours of driving... Any idea why it takes so long to determine the better route?

From the nuvi, you can't tell what is better; only option is to accept or cancel the better route option.

Just curious what the logic is to recalculate a better route after driving so far.