Garmin talk

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.

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

Hi everyone,

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!!!

Recently driving through New Mexico the rest stops were identified along I-10. However, the alert at some of these stops did not function. Anyone else have similar experiences?

I haven't had my nuvi 260 long, so I was playing around with it the other day. I pressed on the battery icon and waited until specs (that I know little about) came up. I pressed the down and up "buttons" and the backlight went down and up. I played a little more and then exited.

I have a Nuvi 260, I have learned to add POI files with POI loader. I now have added the Red Light ones. I also have learned to use Google Map to my 260. All thanks to everyone on this site.
I have read a lot about Mapsource,is there a need for me to get Mapsource? I know that I can not do routes on a 260, so is there anything else Mapsource can do that will be a benefit to me?

I'm a little gun-shy about calling this an upgrade with the bad experiences many of us have had with the disconnect problems on our smartphones. I spotted the upgrade from fw v3.00 to v3.10 while checking things out on the webupdater. It stated that it would address the issue of phone disconnects and I decided to upload this firmware version.

Garmin 350

I want to go to POI and select fast food (for example) and in addition to the list of fast food places, I want to go back to map mode and have icons of fast food show on the map as I drive by them.

How do I do this on my 350?

Just saw firmware ver. 4.30 dated 2/22/08 for Nuvi 660 on Garmin's website. Has anyone downloaded and installed it? Any problems or glitches with it?

I saw some earlier discussion on this board that ver. 4.30 was so buggy that Garmin had to take it down. I wonder what I saw just now is the same one or a replacement that has been debugged. Any comments by anyone?

Hi. I'm a new user and this is my first post. I recently replaced my stolen Magellan with a Garmin nuvi 760. I love it. I've downloaded some POI files and got them working.

Has anyone's Nuvi started mysteriously catching local TV channels? I was driving to work this morning and the satellite signal became very weak then all of a sudden the TV news came on with the local traffic report. The picture wasn't too clear but I could definitely make out one of the local news reports talking about the traffic jam that I was stuck in.

OLATHE, Kan./April 1, 2008/PR Newswire — Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced the next evolution of the nüvi series designed for aging baby boomers. The nüvi 690 is designed as tribute to the 1969 Summer of Love. The distinctive exterior will feature peace and hemp symbols.

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Google and Mapquest have teamed up with Garmin to allow users to import routes and locations that they find on their respective services onto their Garmin GPS. This obviously requires a usb connection of sorts, but should be available on google starting tomorrow.

First, this unit lock up once or twice a day. Usually when a POI proximity alert happens

and now, it wond change to night mode automatically like it use to.

I have put the BMP inside my POI file and uploaded it. They do not show up on my Garmin Nuvi 260w. How do I make them show up.

OK! once i put mu POI's in my nuvi 260w i made sure that the proximity was checked. Should it alert me when im by any of those POIs'? or does it only do it for the Red Light Cameras?

I have found that Visual Earth is far more up to date than Google Earth or Mapsource. After mentioning this to my son he decided to work on a software program to search Visual Earth for address locations in batch and individual format. He said he will post the program when it is complete and relatively bug free.

So I recommended my company to purchase 3 Garmin Nuvi 650's for field reps who travel around the state of CA.

Now that theyve bought them, I have to support the units, I also have to train the users. I should write up a little tip sheet for them.

Anyone want to add to my list?

1. Routing is only 75% accurate. Verify onlne if possible.