Garmin talk

Several Garmin automotive devices now offer Real Directions.

I just purchased my first Garmin after using Tomtom for several years. I was able to move quite of bit of my Tomtom functions to the memory card keeping it up to date. It was a little slow but for its age I guess I would be to.

V4.0.15.0 just downloaded and installed on my Win 7 32 bit PC.

Picked this up over on the Garmin Software forums from user "EXPRESSCUSTOMERCARE". This is the official user ID used by the Garmin Express developers.

Does anyone know a way to disable this feature? I don't like it popping up as I'm arriving to a destination.

I just recently disabled "junction view" by renaming the file extension of the file. Wondering if there is a similar file I could rename in order to prevent the "find parking" feature from activating. Thanks.

My Garmin Express (PC version) updated to version 4.0.14.0 today:

Garmin began rolling out Garmin Express v4.0.14.0 for the PC today. If you would like to upgrade to the latest version, Check for Updates to Express on the Settings page within the Express application. This version includes the following changes:

I have a new Garmin Nuvi 52 and am interested in adding voice alerts and icons to the red light camera, speed camera, and rest area files I have already installed on my device. Is this a good idea?

I currently have a Nuvi 3490lmt. Other than a larger screen, are there any other big advantages of the 3597lmthd over the 3490lmt?

3490lmt advantages for me over 3597lmthd:
- longer battery life
- lighter and smaller so it can fit in your pocket for pedestrian gps
- cheaper, I bought my 3490lmt for $145 during christmas time

One of our members sent in this photo: http://www.poi-factory.com/images/avg1186kmh.jpg

I asked if he had taken it on an airplane or something, but he hadn't; just normal driving. He said it was after driving about 2500 km.

Though we've had the 2689 for a little over a month, Yesterday was the first long enough ride to see multiple Junction Views... We had seen a couple prior, We had heard about them here....but coming from a 660, weren't exactly certain those were JV's. They were...

So Yesterday we saw two different types... Which I'll refer to as: 1/2 view, and 1/3 view.

Looking at some newer models on the internet and found what they call the direct access option. Garmin supports shows this.

Shopping at by best buy, and looking on some Garmin nuvi model, I was curious to know what map date version was on the unit, it was on sale for $239.00,well when I click on tools on map info this is what I saw;

2014.10 NT AMERICA

and

2014.10 NT foursquare..

would someone please tell me what this foursquare mean and what coverage does it have?

I know this had to be discussed at some point, however I can't find a simular problem on here, like I have..I updated my map on my 765t, did a hard reset, and my car, on the map, is off on the side of the track..(does that make sense?)instead of it being on the line, it's offset..weird, is there something else I could do, or should have done after my update?

If you own a Zumo 590 do not install the new firmware ver. 3.10 released March 26. The new firmware has a bug that prevents the media player from un-muting following a GPS voice direction. This affects only the media player, and you won't have other problems with navigation.

It has been a year or so since I have been to where we ride our toys in the desert. Not sure on which last map update but lots more color and details now. But several times on the GPS, up pops 'memory full'. WHAT?? Not sure what that means. I do have lots of space on internal memory and on the SD card. Any ideas?

I downloaded my first files (Red Light Camera, Speed Camera, Rest Areas) and did a "Save As" to the "Custom POIs" folder I created on my computer. Everything worked fine, but a message made me hesitate before I did the "Save As".

Ed Conde on the New England Riders forum (a motorcycle forum) has put together a great tutorial on using BaseCamp. The tutorial evolved from a class agenda where he has taught a number of BaseCamp haters to use the program in a few hours. This tutorial is very useful for anyone new to BaseCamp or struggling with it, and will get you past the steep learning curve so many folks seem to experience.

Tired of meaningless Lifetime Traffic with routing on roads that no local would ever use? GRMN has announced today a new Pacman feature on its much anticipated 2015 Prestige line. When stuck in traffic a Yellow pacman will pop up on the display.

Garmin began rolling out Garmin Express v4.0.13.0 for the PC today. If you would like to upgrade to the latest version, Check for Updates to Express on the Settings page within the Express application. This version includes the following changes:

4.0.13.0

Fixed a crash affecting Danish users.
Fixed an issue that prevented changing installed Courses on a device.

4.0.11.0

I was on vaction last week and when I was using the Garmin Viago app to navigate, I noticed that it was no longer speaking street names even though I have purchased that option in the past and selected a voice that offers that. When I would select a voice that does not speak street names, I did get the "turn right ahead".