Garmin talk

I'm fairly new to GPS but am having a lot of fun with my Nüvi 250. Does anyone know if it is possible to download free or custom maps or overlays to the Nüvi unit? I ask with the intention of downloading maps of trails and the like. Thanks a lot!

I was playing with my GPS today and found out that if you tap on your vehicle, while on map screen, it will give your current position and elevation. Also gives you the option to save location to favorites.
This may be usefull if at a sporting event, amusement park, etc. and want to save where you parked. Then you could use GPS to find your car. It may have other uses as well.

Hey all,

I have a Nuvi 200 and when I search for a POI by name it takes 5 to 6 minutes and it still doesn't find the POI that I'm looking for. It typically finds the POI that is 40+ miles away. I went to the store and using the display model of the Nuvi 200 and a display of the Nuvi 350 I searched for the same POI.

while learning my way around my new nuvi 250, I have inadvertently added a whole list of favourites that I don't require. How can I remove them in bulk.

My Nuvi 250W lost the voice turn by turn. Any sugestions on how to get it back ? The one thing i did do was eliminate all the text except american english. After I did that i lost the voice turn by turn. Desperate please help. I hope I didnt f It up. Tried to restore to the default settings but that didnt work. Anyway if anyone can help please let me know. Thanks. Gary 250W

This has been discussed here and there has been a 'spirited' discussion over at GPSPassion. One guy said Garmin told him for sure it does not, another guy said he knows people at Garmin that said it does.

If I get an Auxiliary Input for my 660 and connect them via a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable, i understand that i will be able to listen to my MP3's on my car speakers thru the 660.

my question is, will i also be able to use bluetooth this way?

i guess what i am trying to ask is if the AUX jack works for bluetooth too.

When removing unwanted files from NUVI 760 (eg vehicles or lang.) any special care that must be taken or can one just copy the unwanted file to PC and then delete from NUVI?
Joe

I own a Nuvi 770, is it possible to install Topo Map on this Nuvi?

Also, anticipating that it is possible, I purchased a 4GB HC SD card for my Nuvi, when I put it in the Nuvi, the Nuvi went black and never turn on again. I had to return the Nuvi back for an exchange. Is it because the Nuvi does not accept HC SD cards.

Just want to say hello to the fellow forum members, I use a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx and want to know which program could be used to store, catalog, manipulate, etc POI's before using Garmin's POI uploader. Looking for something basically that works. I have been lurking for a week now and have learned a lot. thanks

I am not sure where else to put this post. The people on this site seem to know what they are talking about. I am considering getting a fitness watch and was wondering if any of the Garmin users here have purchased a Garmin forerunner 50 (with the foot pod) or 205. They are about the same price and was wondering about the pros and cons with either one.

I find that 80% of the time, when I power up my 250w, I have to zoom it in or out in order to get street names to appear. In other words, all I see at first are a bunch of streets without names. I have tried to let the street names appear by themselves, but I find I have to zoom in and then zoom back out.

When I navigate to home, most times the car parks facing south. Now when I start a new trip it starts south but sometimes I want to start north.

How can I turn the car around (to face north) before I start my new trip?

I am using this work around at present (before I actually start). Start off and go a short distance, stop, then go back home so the car will face north.

Hi - in light of another discussion about which nuvi has best bang for the buck, and my playing around to free up some space, I noted that on my n370 there is a non-tts voice accompanying the tts voices. Which made me curious if one could take a non-tts nuvi and simply copy onto it a tts voice, or whether there is some difference in firmware or otherwise that would keep this from working.

I have downloaded and ran Garmin Updater twice. It gets to 47% and I get an error. Then it closes.
What is wrong??

nuvi 660 model:
My brother helped me though this process and then I had my computer re-imaged.
I still have the files, but they are all in 1 folder.
Does anyone have the patience to give me a step by step "How to organize" these files for my nuvi?
Also, I have read about updating, but I do not see an "About" on any of my menus!

I purchased my three GPS Units (Nuvi 360 and 660)(Street Pilot 550c) in early 2007 and have never updated the maps. I would appreciate any insights regarding:

- the format (CD, SD card, etc.) of the new maps when purchasing the "Map Update 2008 City Navigator® North America NT" online from Garmin

- do I need to make only one purchase for all three units

Does anyone have any inside information on the Nuvi 880? I was interested in how well the speech recognition feature works.

Is there a place on the web that i can put in the Loungatude and latatude (sorry for the spelling) and see the location?

Like i want to see the red light locations so i know where they are.

Chuck