Garmin talk

I have a Nuvi 2599 and lately the unit shows my car off the road approximately 50 feet to the left of where I actually am.

If I am in a neighborhood it will show me 1 block over and if I am on a highway it shows me as being out in the middle of nothing.

I have a Garmin Drivesmart 50. Wife still insists on travelling with sheet maps (created from Google maps) that she has highlighted our route. Our Garmin follows her route except in a few areas where she will take a 2 lane road instead of staying on the interstate. Her route saves us 1 hour over a 14 hour trip. Ontario to Myrtle Beach.

Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the Archive folder in the GPX directory is?

I have a Garmin 2557LMT I use for work and Save locations frequently for future reference. Typically a customer location. I back these up by uploading them to Garmin Basecamp.

Within my HD Zumo 660 there is a reference to a scenic routes POI file (Scenic_Routes_Provider_1) - I was wondering if anyone's Zumo came with that file and if so, could they share it. Also, I learned that if you completely remove the larger .gpi file, which contains all the HD dealers - the HD 'Where to' icon will disappear.

My nuvi 2689 shows 94% full but it has a 16 GB memory card installed. When I attempt to update the English language file (471 MB) it can't be accomplished because of insufficient space. Do I have to do anything special to the memory card for it to be used. I can see the card in Windows Explorer. It has been formatted (FAT32), is empty and can hold 16 GB.

Thanks much for any feedback.

I used POI LOADER to load them on my DriveAssist™ 50LMT. Its new. The poi tries to load then says there is a unexpected error during the transfer of the custom POI Files. what am I doing wrong in loading them.

Hi,

For a Garmin drive smart 61.

I have made a custom route for our Route 66 trip.

Have installed Open Maps.

1) Would you recommend continue using the Open Maps of USA or buy the Garmin USA North America map? I have simulated the route on the Garmin and seems to work OK. Just don't want to arrive in the USA and find I have problems.

I've tried to set up POIs to alert me when ~3 miles away. In the past I've succeeded but I apparently made some mistake that I keep repeating. I know I've made an error as the alarm goes off after entering a parking lot rather than 3 miles off.

This is what I've done:

start POI Loader
remove all previous POIs

start POI Loader
select: units: feet & MPH

New version just loaded and functional!

I need to extend my GTM-60 cable. It appears without cutting the cable (yet) that the cord has some type of ethernet wiring as well as, power wiring.

Before I butcher a brand new GTM-60 cable, does anyone know what actually is inside and what cabling I would need in order to extend the cord about 3 feet?

Now that EPE will not support Google Maps or vise versa, I tried to display the points of Google Earth without success.

Tools > Open in GoogleEarth(tm) F9
=EPE cannot find the path to Google Earth

Help > Does not work

Options > Preferences
= no place to insert the path to my Google Earth Application

How would I display my points on GE through EPE?

Do u need to have garmin connected to wifi to receive free traffic updates?

when I launch POI Loader 273 it tells me to uninstall (same page) which I have to, when I launch it again it re-installs and I can use it only once. I have to go thru this every time.
Has anyone else experience this or have a remedy?

I would really appreciate hearing from anyone that has had a positive experience getting proximity alerts working for custom points. I've tried every tool that Garmin provides, placed legal values in the "Proximity" fields, created valid .gpx/.gpi files that were saved initially to my PC, then moved to the appropriate locations on my unit.

Does Garmin ever update the POI's that come with their products?

I have a DriveSmart61 and want to hard wire the power into my car. When I cut the power cord I found in the standard power cord 3 wires...Red>Black>White. I know what the red and blacker for but have no idea what the white wire is for.

An update to the Garmin Smartphone Link for Android is now available from Google Play.

I have being using EPE for years to remove duplication from POI files as well as converting files to different formats.

Recently, the column data changed and I have attempted to correct this to my desired information but I am having no success . Previously, if a problem occurred , I was able to reinstall a download version of the EPE, but this download is no longer available.

I'm looking for a mass POI editor. Something that would allow me to view and edit all my POIs in a flat file such as Excel or CSV.

Each row in the table would be a POI record, and there would be columns for Name, Phone, Categories (comma separated), Symbol, Latitude, Longitude.