Garmin talk

 

Mapquest to Garmin

Anyone have a definite (or reasonably close) release date on when Mapquest will make possible their "Send to GPS" ability ? Seems google was out of the box first, but I think Mapquests database matched with Garmin will be fantastic. laugh out loud

City Navigator 2009 Has Shipped

I pre-ordered the Update from tvnav.com and surprisingly I got a shipping notice email with a tracking number. I called them thinking it was a error and I was told much to their surprise, when they opened todays freight there were the 2009 Updates and mine was on the way.

Streetpilot C340

I need to know if I can download POI's to the SD card I purchased and where do they show up.Some people say you can while others say no way. Also interested in putting icons like Macdonald's, Sonic, etc. where they will show up on my map.I am new with this GPS.

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Ace

AC to DC power plug

Has anyone tried one fo those plugs, that you can plug in your car charger plug and then into an AC outlet?
How good are they? They seem very cheap on Amazon (around $5.00). Will it still take 5 hours to charge? Are there better ones to buy, if so where?

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Paul..... Nuvi 765T

List of Custom Vehicles

As a request by someone to make it easier to find this list on a front page, I couldn't think of anyway to do it except create a new thread. Below is a list of links to Custom Vehicle Icons for your GPS compatible unit. Please link to the original thread for any discussions and how to's:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/9738

A jpg file of most of the vehicles is listed here:

Nuvi 660 hard drive

I just had to share this info with the group. Allot of you guy’s may already know this. I was reading in the form that some of the Garmin users were deleting the excess files off there Garmin to save space on the hard drive. I just finished doing that. I got rid of all the voices except English (300 mb) and all of my vehicles except the Tank and the blue car.

Alerts Garmin 7200

Do I place alert sounds in the same folders as the POI's or do they have to be placed on a SD?

Latest nuvi 2xx firmware?

What's the latest nuvi 200 firmware version? Garmin tech support says 3.7, but I'm running 3.6 and webupdater says there aren't any updates.

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><> Glenn <>< Garmin nüvi 2598

NUVI 5000

I Heard through the grape vine Garmin is going to discontine the Nuvi 5000 because you dont have the option to change vehicle types like car truck motorcycle ETC The truckers thought this was going to be a good gps for them but if you drive a big rig this is not the gps to get even though garmin made the screen larger and the font bigger to see more easily

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Auggie SP2720 , SP C330, Nuvi 650, Nuvi 785T,Dezl 770lmt America Moves By Truck

Listen to this, LOL, Map Error!!

Well I took a vacation to Atlantic City and stayed at a hotel on the boardwalk. Of cause like all hotels on the boardwalk you drive your car up to the hotel check in and park your car in the parking garage. Anyway, the direction from my c530 were perfect right up until the point were it wanted me to make a right turn on the boardwalk. Of cause the boardwalk is not a road,lol.

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ScottK

Does the POI Loader install all of your custom POIs on the SD Card by default?

Does the POI Loader install all of your custom POIs on the SD Card by default?

SD Size limit for Garmin Nuvi

Is there a size limit on the SD Card that you can use in the Nuvi units. 2Gb or up to 8gb?

Loading gpx files

A couple of times, I have downloaded poi files from the site in the gpx format. A few of these are up to 1MB (sometimes larger) and when I run POI Loader on my Nuvi 680, the program just freezes. When I delete the large gpx file, I am able to run POI Loader without freezing. Does anyone have similar experience and how does one deal with this?

BMP Icon Files

I have tried to make some bmp icon files but cannot get them to work.
I followed the instructions on this site to make them and transfer them.
But I haven't had any luck. I downloaded the bmp then put it in my file and tried to load to my Garmin nuvi 660. It tells me there is no .csv or .gpx file.
HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Go Figure--Nuvi880

detail maps don't support traffic

Hello guys,I just bought an ATT Tilt online and it came with garmin mobile xt version 40.20.30wp, when I try to update traffic it says 'detail maps don't support traffic' everything else updates fine, how can I get traffic to work ? do I need new maps ? also when I had tomtom with my previos phone I could see my selected POI around me at all times any way to do this with garmin????

How to convert a LSD 08-23-041-07W4 to a longitude/latitiude, Nuvi 670

Does anyone know how to convert a point for example like 08-23-041-07W4 to a search point on the Garmin. Maybe how to convert this to a Latitude and Longitude that the 670 can do... I do many thousands of km's/month to different gas well sites and need to convert to something the Garmin can understand.

Mapsource routes

I received a copy of mapsource from Garmin. I planned a route and added two waypoints to force the routing algorithm to choose a route I know has less traffic.

Bluetooth related observation / request

So I guess this is more of an observation and Garmin wish than anything else....

Mounting Nuvi 660 on Bicycle

Hi everyone,

Accuracy with SP c330

I downloaded the walmart POI, and it exists on a road that the SP doesn't know exists yet. The SP tells me that the walmart I was being routed to is about 2-3 miles SE of its' actual location. MY question is - Is the Street Pilot compensating for an address it doesn't know, or are the coordinates not accurate enough? Any help is greatly appreciated!!!