Garmin talk

August 27, 2008

Garmin® Expands Affordable nüvi® 2x5 Series, Offering Hands-Free Calling and Lifetime Traffic Alerts

I was close to paying the price for the red light files, but for some reason, I don't understand the need for this expense. I personally watch red lights easily for the "eye in the sky" mounted to take my picture. What's the big deal requiring money on these files? Seems like a gouge IMO. sv

Can someone please explain Mapsourse to me? What is it exactly? I looked on the Garmin site, it states that the program will not work unless you have a mapsource devise. Is the nuvi a mapsource devise?

On my nuvi 350, the tty file for Jill has become garbled. Garmin technical told me to use Webupdater but no file for Jill is there. Does anyone knew the "location" of the garmin files so I can download it? Or any suggestions as to how to get a replacement would be appreciated greatly.

John
jfnpwalshx@optonline.net

If I bought a Garmin with current maps on it, is there a way I could transfer them maps to an older unit?

I would like to use my Streetpilot c550 inside to finish listening to a book I have loaded on the SDHC. I would like to listen from my easy chair so need some way to power the unit. I have an adapter that plugs into the house circuit (110V) and accepts the cigarette plug connected to the unit.

The specs of the adapter indicate:

Input: 100V-240V 200mA 47-63Hz

Updates & Downloads

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nuvi 880 software version 3.20
as of September 23, 2008

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4115

Anybody know where to update the Tabctl32.ocx for the speech doctor?

the best fitting bag for the nuvi that i found is the Nintendo DS game traveler.
all i had to do , is cut out the center storage flap.
Available at your local Target store (near the camera dept)

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8648092&st=Nin...

Hi All,

I'm loading up a bunch of mp3s and POIs for my trip down to Maryland, and was just wondering if there were any files, such as all the additional voices, that I can remove from my Nuvi 680 without causing it to fail?

Is there a plug in card for my Garmin 200w that contains a complete and uptodate list of all Parks/Camps.

Hello,,,
How can i save trip log to route?
I found 4 tracks log when i retrieves them by mapsource but cant find them in Nuvi pages!

I have been using the POI Loader to successfully load .CSV formatted custom POIs along with .BMPs and .WAV files on our 260 with no problems.

Now for the really stupid question -- Can you place .GPX files in the same folder and load them along with .CSV files into the single custom POI.GPI file?

Hi All,

Been getting use to my Nuvi 680 and was wondering what those with more experience with GPS systems think about the 6xx, 7xx and 8xx series.

I got the 680 at Costco, for our trip down to Baltimore, MD from Toronto, ON and I've been trying to create a route on it that would somewhat match the one that we take when using the MS Streets & Trips off the laptop.

This seems odd..

This week while on vacation I took a ride to work(downtown chicago) and the GTM20 did a great job..but..

On the way to chicago, it got a lil backed up on 290. No alert. But this was while in the INBOUND lane. In the outbound lane there was an overturned and burnt out tanker truck. The delay was minimal, Just rubberneckers. So no biggy. I figured thats 'how it worked'.

Garmin has just announced their new GPSMAP 600 series auto/marine GPSr's. See this link for more info:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/03/garmin-gpsmap-600-series-...

I would love to turn on my garmin put in an address and not have to put city and state every time i have to put in new adress....

O.K. I guess I played around and mess it up without backing up. So here is my problem, and maybe someone here can figure a way to fix it.

When I run speech doctor. I get an error message that component tabctl32.ocx is missing etc. Can anyone help?

John

This was posted on another forum about Garmin's new lifetime maps program:

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=118141