Garmin talk

Bought a new c330 garmin for my first GPS and what a mistake.(SD card is non functional in this unit) After looking at the POI Factory site I found that my GPS does not have all the ammeneties that a unit that cost about $100 dollars more has. I think if you really want to be able to utilize the GPS and POI Factory to its fullest extent (UP GRADE). I am sure you will not be unhappy with your purchase.

Hello All,

Great website. Lots of great info.

I have recently purchased a new c550 on sale during the mad rush of black friday. I think I have figured out how to use and enter information into the unit pretty good, but it seems to be very time consuming to do. I travel alot for sales and engineering for my employer and would like to put a list of customers in the gps in order to have reference to them when I am in a certian location.

My brother came down to FL. for Turkey Day.
He lives in NC, and travels alot, all over the world.
I used my van to take everybody out one day, And he MADE me stop at a store, and ran in and bought a C330.
I spent the next day showing him everything I learned about it.
He used it going home, and learned a few new roads, and was VERY impressed.

That makes my Mom, and now my Brother, who have seen mine, and were impressed enough to run out and buy one.

The recent Mexico maps post by rcpeters made me recall an article I once read that describes how to make your own maps for Garmin GPS. The process sounds pretty complicated, so I haven't ever taken the time to try it.

The end result produces a "background map", which is just an image that scrolls behind your position on the GPS display. It doesn't contain any road data, so it can't be used for routing. Still, there's a lot of interesting info that you might find helpful in understanding what goes into making GPS maps.

I cannot figure out how to DL to the 1GB SD card I have installed on my Garmin c340. Please help or direct me to where it has been discussed. Thanks for any help.

I was at a Fry's Electronics after Thanksgiving sale this a.m. intending to look at the Garmin Street Pilot that was being sold at $300. off the regular price. When they showed me the size of the box, I immediately bought one... my first GPS device. I used one a few months ago in a rented car and was really impressed, this little Garmin was a WOW! I got it working in the parking lot and it directed me home nicely even though I chose to ignore the directions to the freeway, preferring a street route. It did not scream at me like the rental car did, just kept quiet as long as my route was proper, then gave me instructions when significant turns were important.

I just bought a C530 and was reading this thread with interest. Here is what I have discovered on my unit.

The SD card is seen in the diagnostics screen. The only card I have is one I have previously used in my Kodak camera and Kodak had initialized it giving it a drive label (Kodak) and a few directories with a couple of files in some. I didn't want to erase these files since I believe they contain the sync information for the camera picture (file) numbering.

Hello "ALL"
Anyone know if you can change font size in POI LOADER ??

I'm changing my format on my Paintball downloads, to show Name, City, and Phone Number.
Problem is that some of the info is to long, and gets get off.
Anyone know of a way to change the font size, so It will hold more info ??

I use the C330

I'm new to GPS but have been riding motorcyles for years. I enjoy getting out and exploring on two wheels. The Zumo and this forum and

Zumo 550 Forum

should be of great help to me.

Hello,
I have loaded all the free POI's from this site using the POI loader provided by Garmin into my Nuvi 660. My problem is that I can not find any custom POI's available under the custom POI section in my Nuvi, however I do see that the space is being taken up for the POI's based on the HD size decrease. I have also tryed just scanning for them manually by using the most available items like schools and post offices in my area, but they do not show up in my map at all as a POI.

I downloaded the poi loader and put a couple of files onto the nuvi yestday. I wanted to try and add some music to the player today and the nuvi isn't seen as a known usb device. Not sure if it is the poi files,but it is the only thing new. anyway to get rid of them to see if this will take care of the problem?

any help would be most appreciated. I am just getting used to this "spooky" technology

i just got my unit nov 17 (yesderday)i downloaded your poi but i dont know what to do with it. yes when i open it its in an excel format. what do i do next and how do i see it in my gps.

Garmin has been busy updating software for many of their GPS models.

i have been looking at the help files in the poiloader.
the proities r the information entered in the poi file and then in information entered in the manual load. my question is why would u ever want to not enter information in the poi file and rely in the manual load. i cant think of a reason. anyone have any ideas

You can check to see if you have the same problem:

I bought a brand new C330 from Amazon on July 2006. The unit works very well when i´m in the us using the preloaded maps. The problem is that the unit seens to be not recognizing any SD card inserted on it. Just bought from Amazon 7 days ago a fresh copy of Mapsource European navigator version 8 DVD, unlocked the product with success, used a card reader to program the card (it´s impossible to use the unit to tranfer the maps to the SD card) and nothing happens.

I have a Nuvi 350. I was able to load the POIs on my SD card. However, the unit can only see 50 POIs on each category when I browse through the category. I can search other missing POIs when I search for them. So, is there a limit of number of POIs that would show per category?

Tai

AFTER I DOWNLOADED THE INTERSECTIONS WITH CAMERAS I THOUGHT THAT WHEN MY GARMIN WAS ON AND I WAS DRIVING THAT AT WHAT EVER INTERSECTION HAD A RED LIGHT CAMERA THAT IT WOULD SOUND THE ALARM,BUT INSTEAD IT SHOWS UP IN THE SYSTEM AS A POINT OF INTEREST,THAT IS NOT WHAT I WANTED. HOW CAN WE MAKE IT WORK? ALDEN

Hi,

I have a Garmin nuvi 310 deluxe, with the latest firmware, and i use the latest POILoader version as well.

For speed cameras, how do you setup the POIs to only get the speed alert, without the proximity alert ?

Example
On my street, I have 5 Speed cameras POIs at 30mph each :
- When I drive down the street at 25 mph, I get 5 proximity alerts.
- When I drive down the street at 40 mph, I get 5 proximity alerts + Speed alerts.

The Garmin Model I5 comes with the Maps already installed in memory and they do NOT give you the DVD to use with Mapping software like the I3 model. I called Garmin and they are sending me the DVD at no charge.

Tony

i have a number of speed poi and redlight poi programed in to my c530. if i program my gps for a rout and the change of rout notice ,voice and pic, come up at the same time as the speed poi or redlight poi, i get a sound ding but no red pic of the poi. has any one else noticed this.