Garmin talk

OK, anyone had a 770 for more than 5 minutes can answer some questions for me?
-Is there a setting that automatically updates the clock as you pass into different time-zones?
-Can the 770 display topography as with the <$200 Nuvi 205?
-How do you get POI's to display permanently on the map?

Nice unit but...

This is hopefully going to become available in the first part of 2009.

Below are links to some good videos of the new Garmin Nuviphone. If the navigation is as it appears here is like the current Nuvi line this would be very tempting. It also will mount in a cradle mount in the car the same as the current 700 and 800 series do.

Hey everyone, I had a friend make me an amazing custom widescreen splash screen for my nuvi, but when i set it through the garmin, it has a stupid black boarder, is there any possible way or program out there that can let me permanently set this to my garmin?

I am thinking about getting an FM traffic antenna for my Nuvi and was wondering if there is a particular antenna that works the best?

When driving in Bellevue, WA, I had two 7 MPH alerts go off but there was no school or speed restriction in the area. Why?

1. Along Bel-Red Rd. near NE 24th St.

2. Along 148th Ave NE between (I think) NE 8th St and Main St.

Tim

Hi there,

I have a Garmin Nuvi 255 and just loaded the POI file "Complete State Parks Combined List for the USA" CSV file from the POI Factory (Using POI Loader)onto my Garmin. In the Garmin the file ends up being located in my "Extras" file and is named "Custom POI". Is it possible to have the file called "State Parks" (which is what the CSV file is called) instead of "Custom POI" when using the Garmin?

Ok ,, Now I have another question for all the gurus.
I have an icon or picture that I want to use as an icon and I need to know how to resize the picture to 24x24 or the right size for an icon.

I saw in the FAQ sheet that the POI loader will not support the 478...Is there a loader I can use or an alternative method to upload POI's.
frontierdad@msn.com

Thanks
Bob

There is a street in my subdivision that is blocked that I want to avoid my Nuvi from routinely routing.

I downloaded mapsource and I located the blocked section on the map. I think I can set it as an avoidance but what do I do after that?

How do I get this update in my Nuvi? Can you tell me step by step? Thanks

The Send To function of Google, MapQuest and others is pretty cool, but it results in some annoying side effects sometimes.

I sometimes find that a Favorite that I had "sent to" from a web site suddenly reappears in my Favorites days after I had used it and later deleted it.

Anybody going into Philadelphia Pa on I95 the 2009 map is WRONG. If you get off 95 to go on 291 you will see part of route 291 is now a parking lot next to the Airport. I think garmin better get the stuff together, they have been working on that road for over a year now and its still not done..

I have a Garmin Nuvi 200 is there any way I get set it up to avoid streets that have load limits or say no trucks?

I have been working in getting pois on the sd card and have succeeded, however, I have another question. It appears that any poi's that I have on the nuvi are deleted when I put in my sd card. In other words you cannot have different poi's on the nuvi and the sd card because the sd card overides what is on the nuvi.

http://gpstracklog.typepad.com/gps_tracklog/2008/10/jd-power...

Before I splurge of the 2009 Map Update, is there a way to check and see if the areas I frequent the most are even updated?

When updating my POI files this afternoon, I ran POI Loader, as usual. After about 2 minutes, it simply crashed. No error code generated..just crashed. I tried again. Same thing. I rebooted my computer and ran it again..same thing. I decided to start eliminating POI files one at a time to see if that would make a difference. The first one I eliminated was the Zipcode file.

I have had the Garmin 330 for about a year and have enjoyed it very much... Has helped several times. It is now discontinued and the 2009 map update is USD 70 as was last year's update. Have found a Magellen 4000 refurbished for USD 90. Anybody have any thoughts? Just stick to what I have and be happy or spend a few for a newer, maybe more modern and better device...

Is there a way to set an alert distance in a CSV file instead of having to do each file when using the POI Loader?

Is it posible to temporarily disable custom POI's without removing them? For example, if I have a POI file of hotels, but during this trip I don't need to be alerted to them, can I turn off the alert but be able to turn them back on for a trip maybe later in the day?