Garmin talk

My Mom's neighborhood in Michigan is filled with streets named "Whitburn Dr" "Buckhaven Dr" etc - you know, "Drives". Obviously a Dr in the name means it's a drive, and that stretch of pavement isn't actually a Doctor. Everyone was laughing when it would tell me to "turn right on Whitburn Doctor".

I have a nuvi 260 which I purchased about 3 weeks ago. It has text to speech. I have not used it for about a week and today when I used it, it did not specify the street names, all it did was say turn R 500 feet, etc. I know it works since I have heard it say the street names but now it is not.

Can someone help with this. I have a C340 and when I save a location to my favorites I have the choice to change the icon. There are about 3 screens of icons and I can't tell what any of them are. Can someone tell me where I can get a copy of these icons so I can tell what they are. It would be nice if garmin had a bmp etc that shows them clearly. Thanks

CP

I bought my wife the gps and I would like to configure it in such a manner as to organize certain addresses in groups ie. Family, Friends, Work, Personal Business, etc... I entered a number of these into the Nuvi and see them in the current.gpx. I have tried a few different attempts but have yet to figure it out. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

Seems the only way MSN direct feeds info to your car is when the receiver is plugged in to the car battery. However most cars cut off the connection to the cigarette lighter when the key is out.
Wondering if anyone had tried to use a indoor adapter for the receiver, and if they did recommend which one and where to buy one.

TIA

Hello all,
I just bought a Garmin Nuvi 350. So far I love it. Has anyone used the Waas feature? Does it really help with accuracy? Are there any downsides to turning it on?

Thanks,

I recently purchased a Garmin 250W... yesterday, in fact, from Best Buy up here in the Great White North.

I chose this model for a few reasons... great $299 price, wide screen, ease of use. I looked at the dizzying array of Garmin models but quickly realized I didn't need all those bells and whistles. The only feature that would've been nice is text-to-speech for it to announce street names.

My wife and I are leaving in a little while for a trip to CA. The nuvi 350 is going to be carried on for the flight, then immediately unpacked for the rental car. Instead of taking all of the cables, I simply pack:

Nuvi USB cable
USB-DC car charger adapter for iPod - $5 at wal-mart
DC-AC wall charger adapter - $5 at wal-mart

I have found a POI file on here that I would like to download but I am given 4 options on what type to download. I am not sure which on to download. can some one help?

here is an example...

GPX - with Garmin extension (phone dial support)
Garmin CSV - regular line breaks
Garmin CSV - nuvi 350/360 line breaks
Garmin CSV - no line breaks (easier to import)

by the way I have a Nuvi 200w

Hi,

I just got my nuvi 680 and am sort of new to this. I've a question regarding installing custom POIs. If i have two custom poi files, and coincidentally each files contain a poi that has exactly the same name and coordinates....so will one overide the other or they both will show up on the gps screen? Hope this makes sense.

Can some one download a better voice with TTS for Nuvi760? The quality of sound for TTS voices in the unit is so bad, not like the standard American English one.

Just got a 680 delivered today. MSN setup and all is fine and data is building up slowly.
Question is this, when I am driving to a destination, under the + sign on the map, there is a little icon with clouds and flames (sort of). When I click on it, it says "no matches found".
What the hell is that icon do?

TIA

Version 2.30 Software update is available for the nuvi 7xx series. You can get it here:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/collection.jsp?product=010-00...

List of fixes from Garmin's web site:

Changes made from version 2.20 to 2.30:

Correct issue that may prevent some Points of Interest categories from displaying on the menu.

File size is 4.47 Mb.

I had bought a c340 from best buy the weekend of thanksgiving for 299, after going back a few times my girlfriend got it for 205 using price match from a company called comp u plus's pricing, so if anyone out there paid what I paid go online print out the price they will match it for 30 days as many times as you see the price come down, she has brought the price down 3 times already!!!

Hi,

I just want to confirm that there is a maximum number of rows (per single CSV file) POILoader can load, I tried to load 2300+ (ALL starbucks in CA), but POILoad keeps saying it can only load certain number of records. Thanks!

the other day i was using my Nuvi 360 to get to a wedding and noticed i needed some gas so i did a search for near by gas stations while i was still on route to the wedding, anyways after i did that the GPS showed 2 purple route lines which i thought was a bit confusing and i have never seen this before.... is this normal?

I love it when I get a good deal. There's a typical gas war going on in Albuquerque and my MSN Direct Services on the nuvi 680 caught it. How about a .32 savings per galloon between gas stations that were less than a quarter mile apart?

http://photos-928.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v169/160/28...

- just lovin' the MSN Direct feature of the 680 :-)

Have seen a few posts here about cases for the Nuvi wide screens. well I have been looking at getting some kind of case for my 200w. I got to lookin' around the house to see if we had any case that would fit the 200w, found a few that fit OK but I found that any case for a Dell Axim 51/51v fit the 200w like a glove.

Just thought I would pass this along.

Does Nuvi760 speaks the names of the roads when navigation?

Thanks.

Hi, i still receipt my new unit nuvi 760, i wish know the differences betwen nuvi 760, 680 and 670, and what is newest, what is the best, thankssssssssss.