Garmin talk

I have two questions I am tring to answer.
1- How do I get a POI to alert when it is not on the exact route I am following. Example if I have Costco as a POI but it is 2 blocks north, and I have set the prox alert to 5000 ft, it will not alert. If I am on the street that costco is on it will alert.

If im seeing things right, which doesn't always happen, the 2009 map is out for the Garmin. I was told by the salesman, that I should receive the 2009 map update @ no charge since the Nuvi 200W that I purchased has 2008. Does anyone know if there is any truth to that? I have sent an email to Garmin support and well.....their response time seems to be a little slow.

OK, i have noticed an odd thing with the c 580 when you are playing the MP3 player and have the maps up guideing you too where you want to go the map refresh is real slow , has anyone else had this issue?

thanks

After the update to the 2009 maps I notice that on my 660 that towns are now yellow if and if your outside of the city limits they turn white like it used to be. Is this a new feature on the "higher end" models? I know two people tho have the NUVI 200's and theirs didn't turn yellow after the 09 update.

I was just experimenting with CSV files to see if I could make them directional.

YES IT CAN BE DONE

Can be done on divided hiways and Interstates where the NUVI map shows 2 separate lanes for the road.

When I go to Mapquest and try to load directions onto my nuvi 350 the wrong serial number comes up. It will say that I have successfully sent the waypoints to the following devices and it will say Nuvi (unit id and then a number not at all close to mine.

I have a Garmin C330 that when you turn it on a message Cant Unlock Maps pops up.

Hi. I pushed the strength bar icon, closed the antenna and noticed it seems like the nuvi 350 is still connected to the satellites... the signal strength varies slightly on each satellite. On top it states GPS is Off -- but it looks like it's still connected?

A newbie to the GPS world here. My wife tired of me calling for directions!!

Can I obtain POI's that pertain to certain states? Where can I find them?
(golf courses, dog parks, walk trails, etc...)

I have found some files, but they have let's say 500 locations of all the Home Depots. What if I just want Washington?

Any info, tips or insight would be wonderful.

Thanx for your time

Does anyone have a database for a Garmin nuvi 760 to locate lakes and boat launches in Connecticut, New England or the USA?

How does one go about finding and/or producing this type of information to be put on a personal travel assistant.

It seems to me and anyone I have spoken to that this database would be invaluable to boaters and fishing enthusiats.

Hi
On a trip yesterday, lost satellite reception on the George Washington Bridge, got it back a minute or two later. Was this a coincidence, or are big suspension bridges associated with lost reception more generally (lots of steel, bouncing every which way, etc.)

TIA
Neal

I goofed, my question should have been, on my garmin 260, how do I turn my POI's "alerts" on??

I'm fairly new to the Garmin product and was trying to upload through the POI Loader. I created and have legitimate POI's titled Lighthouses. I placed an MP3 into the POI folder on the desktop and renamed it Lighthouses and uploaded the file to the GPS device.

Can someone please tell me the difference between a CSV file and a GPX file.

Thanks

HI all, Quite happy with the Nuvi 760, but have a query. I've organized a route of about 6 POI. The Nuvi arranged them in the most appropriate order. While visiting each route, some of the POI were either 50 or 100 meters out of the way, which is quite acceptable, I believe, as some of them were downloaded on my SD card from POI factory.

I was shopping at Sams Club yesterday and noticed that they have a Nuvi 750 for $300 dollars, Is that a good price for that model?

Hi all,

Could anyone tell me how to update the C340 with the Garmin City Navigator North America NT 2009 version? When I try to do it it asks me to have a SD card. Can I overwrite(flash) the existing 2008 version on the internal memory? If so, How do it do that?

If I cant? Will the C340 support a 4gb SDHC card?

Thanks in advance.

I did a lot of reading to determine which GPS to buy and settled on the nuvi 750. I am very happy with it except for one thing, the mapping game.

Making Directional POIs

You can make directional POIs on divided highways, such as interstates and any other 4 or more lanes divided road that shows as 2 separate roads on your Nuvi or MapSource. These lanes will normally show xxx N, xxx S, xxx E or xxx W when you put your cursor on them.

So has anyone experienced this yet? I had several European and US POI's on Hard drive and MP3 files on hard drive and SD card. I got on a plane the other day and the MP3 files are now missing, only the folder names of the European files are displayed with no files found inside and only the US POI's are still there? Why would the US files remain and the European files and MP3's dissapear?