Garmin talk

Does anyone have an email address or link where I can report software issues to Garmin? Or would it just be the COntact Support page?

My 750 is still having the problem finding POI's near my destination. Instead it gives me POI's near one of the locations listed in my favorites.

Does Garmin make a permanently installed after market in dash GPS unit? Never seen or heard of one.

On my 660, if I click Where To, Food Lodging, Hospitals, every hospital is listed twice. If I click on each, they have the same city & phone number. At first I thought one could be for emergency room or something like that, other for main hospital. Don't think that's what's going on. I'm in the Los Angeles area, latest firmware & maps.

I got a few of them from a few digital cameras, still were in the wrapper. Turns out the nuvi 660 handles POI files very well from interchangable SD chips. I've experimented putting important data such as local red-light camera POI files directly in the nuvi ram and larger POI files I don't use often on a SD chip. You can have a lot of POI's on 16MB.

Waiting to get my nuvi350 today and have been reading specs and all the comments(very helpful and informative). There's one thing either I missed or haven't read yet. Does the 350 auto zoom map when it comes to a directional change. I have an older garmin gpsV and it dose the auto zoom, very helpful seeing up close what to do.

Got an email from a tech that said the running rumor at Garmin for the name "Nüvi" came from blending the words New and Navigation, then it became Newvigation, then Nuvigation and condensed to Nüvi. He wasn't sure what the double dots over the U were supposed to mean.

I can see, from all the posts I've read here and on other forums, that there are a lot of Garmin owners that have issues with what appear to be software features.

I've been wondering if anyone has some "inside" information as to whether Garmin might actually implement a software upgrade based on the large numbers of requests/complaints?

For those who didn't see my earlier post, I returned my 660 and bought a 680 from Costco online for $479.99, which was $220 less than the 660. I figured that it was worth giving MSN a test, since the 660's traffic didn't do much for me on our round trip from Dana Point, CA to Sedona, AZ in October.

It seems that if I want to import an updated .csv POI file, I have to upload ALL of them. I tried updating the latest red light/speed camera POIs from a separate folder. After uploading those two POIs, all my other ones were gone.

Seems I have to put each POI file in the same folder and import all of the every time I need to add an updated single POI file. Weird...

How do I convert a GPX file to a CSV file so I can incorporate the data into an existing CSV file? I use Excel... Thanks in advance!

(I posed this question in a Nuvi Yahoo forum, but a fellow user suggested that I might get better feedback here.)

Hi,
I haven't journeyed far since I got the Nuvi 660 (only yesterday!)

I often drive from Long Island to the Pennsylvania Poconos and back.
The route usually planned brings me across the George Washington
Bridge, which is the quickest route IF there is no construction,

I have a new garmin, and have uploaded some of the poi's

now how do i see the data fom these poi's on the gps unit?

thanks

Well a week or so ago I discovered I had a c330 with a different board and firmware. It had v4.40 loaded on it and according to ProductSupport this was the same as v5.70.

With the Black Friday deal, I picked up another c330 (which has v5.60 on it) and returned the v4.40 for a refund. They wouldn't do just a refund of difference.

do u just hear *ding*...*flashing red*?

I am considering a NUVI 650 from Costco, but what's up with the C530s?

Can anyone compare those units?

I know lots of people just love their C330s. What's different about the C530, and what's better about the NUVI's compared to the C530?

Does anyone run into a limitation of mp3 playlist in 360?

My 360 is less than a week old. I took out the SD card straight from my palm PDA and put it into the SD slot of 360. It did find the pictures and songs alright. But for the playlist, it shows only 50 but I know I have 80+

I'd sent an email to Garmin support about it on 11/23 and haven't heard from them yet.

Hello Everyone,
I have the Red Light Camera POI loaded in my Nuvi 760. I have tested it, with .wav file notifier and .bmp icon. It worked, my picture wasn't taken

New Poi Verifier v1.0.1.3 at POI Verifier.

Changes from v1.0.1.2 to v1.0.1.3:
1. Some POIs have been uploaded with the nüvi 350/360 compatible linebreaks (i.e. <br>). These linebreaks do not display correctly on other GPS units. There is now an option to convert all <br> linebreaks to the standard linebreaks.

2. Although Garmin's format for csv POI files is longitude first column, latitude second column, some GPS units require latitude first. Also, a few POIs have been uploaded with latitude in the first column. To help with these issues, the second option added will swap the longitude and latitude columns.
Anyone with v1.0.1.2 can install this version with no additional registration number. Just uninstall the old version before installing the new version.

Any problems, please email me.
EDITED 11/28/2007
VISTA USERS: Just discovered that when uninstalling the old version, the old serial number and registration number is also removed. If you have this problem when uninstalling v1.0.1.2, just email me your new serial number and I'll give you a new registration number.

RT

Hi

havent had time to upload any custom POIs to my Nüvi 250w yet. Can someone tell me how they appear on the POI menu? Is there a separate touch button for each one or are they all bundled under one for the custom POIs? I am sure it is similar for all the 2xx series.

Thanks in advance.

I find the coverage area is smaller than advertised, I live in the western Chicago 'burbs and I am out of range until closer to the city. Also, my experience is that I get a traffic alert just about the time I see brake lights up ahead. Since I drive the tollways, it is too late to jump off for an alternate route.