Garmin talk

i see there is a new map out 2008 Map Update City Navigator® Europe NT the price is $ 129.99 USD from the garmin website.

Does the StreetPilot 2720 support MP3 audio files?

My poi's don't show up on my Zumo 550 when in 3D mode. It don't matter what zoom level you are at. Anyone else have this problem?

If I have several POIs loaded on my Garmin will they both be bound by the same proximity alert distance? (ie- I want to set rest areas to 1 mile but I also want to load red light enforcement cameras and obviously need that alert to be closer to the camera).

First Question,

Why do you suppose when you do a search for a city, it always brings up the city name in a different state first instead of the default state that it should know you are physically in?

2nd Question,

My default ALERT is working fine with my Rest-Stop.csv. I downloaded the Rest-Stop.mp3 from this web site and renamed it so it matched my *.csv file, and this time I got the same "On-Screen" warning, but just silence from the speaker. I removed the mp3 from my POI files and now I am getting the default Alert again.

Hi Everyone,

I hear talk about backing up my favorites off my nuvi 660 however, where are they located on the unit and what is the file name? I have all my custom POI files stored on the SD card and I'm cool with how to backup that data but like I said, which files on the nuvi itself do I need to backup?

Thanks Much!!

Clint

I am having difficulty getting the Phone Book on my Blackberry transferred to my SP 550.

I downloaded a couple of POI databases for the first time today and I need a little help. I first downloaded Love's Travel Stops and they displayed under MY Favorites. Then I downloaded OK state parks. This was successful, but now I can't locate the Love's locations. I assumed POI's would appear in order of proximity, but now all I see under POI's is the state parks. How do I see all or select?

Games for your nuvi
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us/cache/offonce/us/se...

I just got off of the phone with Garmin. If you want MapSource on your computer and only have the Map Update 2008 disk that updated your GPSr, you can do it. Find the file on the disk named CNNANT2008Update_ENU and double click on it. The ENU part specifies English. The others are different languages. It will install.

i have a unit that was stolen here, its a nuvi650. has anyone from the bay area of california had one of these ganked recently? if you can describe a unique mark on it or let me know a serial number i'd be happy to help it find its way home

Is it possible to have POIs appear on the screen automatically? That is, I can "go to" a poi, but I would like to see local POIs when I am nearby. For instance, Rest Areas should appear on the screen automatically, without me specifically searching for them and selecting them as a destination.

Help?

Thanks,

Dave

is there a way to "imbed" the alert distance in the folder containing the poi file, bmp and mp3 file? as the number of folders grows the time it takes to manually add this information in poi loader gets longer. the nuvi 660 overwrites with each "sync" so i'm trying to find a way around having to add distance each time. thanks in advance.

Hello Everyone,

Still new to this stuff so thought I'd ask the numerous experts out there...

Thought this was interesting. You all have probably seen this before

http://vip.hyperusa.com/~dougs/GPSSM/

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to this POI editing stuff so please bear with me. I see that some of the files have csv extensions and I can open them using MS Excel but is that the best way to edit and create them? And another question, I have the Garmin Nuvi 660 with a 1GB SD card which holds all my POI files however I was wondering does this slow the unit response time down at all?!

Hello to All,

I would appreciate some help with installing a map with the extension (*.img) into my Nuvi 660. I have Mapsource software, but couldn't figure out how to use it to install the map on the GPS!!

Thanks for the help!

Hi I am new to GPS and/or creating custom POI.

I have downloaded a list of Second Cup POIs for Canada, but the file only has address, and I can't get the GPS (Nuvi 650) to search for "second cup" and find the locations I just added.

So I looked at other files and noticed that the file was structured like:

Longitude, lattitude, "Name of location - address"

while this file was