Welcome / open talk

Just checking out the updates for red light cameras and noticed Illinois comes in first with adding cameras in six of the seven updates done this year followed by California with five. Lucky us if you live there.

HI everyone,

I downloaded the Rest Areas POI and installed it using the POI Loader but I can't get the locations to appear on my map when plotting out a route. This is the first POI I've installed so I might be doing something wrong without realizing it. Other than loading it with the POI Loader, is there something else I need to do to activate the POI?

Hi guys,
I just picked up a Garmin Nuvi 760 today and I am having fun learning how to use it. What is the coolest feature you find with your GPS?

The site was down a few minutes ago for software upgrades?

What kind of upgrades? Nice to see it back up.

Just noticed something on my Nuvi 265.Usually I put all my favorites in using google send to gps.Using that method they all show up under favorites.Today I went to points of interest,selected food,all food and used the spell to locate a restaurant we wanted to try.After typing in name and finding the location.Touched save and went to favorites and noticed I now have a category for food listed.Afte

I have a NUVI 760, my computer has Vista and I use Internet Explorer. Last week for the very first time I downloaded/installed the Garmin POI Loader s/w plus I downloaded/installed the Redlight & Speed camera POI's from POI Factory.
Here are my questions:

do an honest (1 vote per GPS owned) on-line survey of reliability among different brands of GPS'? I'm dismayed over the poor quality of one of mine, which has now had both of the battery terminal springs break while it was simply sitting on a shelf.

Hello everybody I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to change the ringtone for my garmin 680, when I have my phone hooked to the bluetooth and I get a call it rings with a hideous sound, the boring old ring,ring,ring, any ideas, thanks
Jim

I searched and checked the FAQ, couldn't find it.

Is there a way to see all the POI files I have contributed to the POI Factory?

In my account info I see "Maintainer for these POI files:" but there is nothing under it.

Any ideas?

Thanks,Chuck

This week we are recognizing two Canadian contributors that have been actively adding to our Canada category. Our COW awards this week go to Daytripsca and JD and Beastlet.

Daytripsca, I was pretty excited when your files started to appear on the site. I have put them into a POI Package so that they are all together now. http://www.poi-factory.com/node/20741.

This is the place to talk about things that are not gps related.

Have fun...

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

Miss POI

Wow, great site. I am a new truck driver and this website is going to make my life a whole lot easier. I found the site today and have already added a ton of points of interests.

We have a pretty neat opportunity here with POI Factory by being able to create POI files and share them. I am just wondering what the future holds for the POIs on the GPS Devices themselves. What I am referring to is how street address and locations can vary somewhat. For example, a Walgreens near 15034 Shannon Parkway, Rosemount, MN 55068.

To all the Members of our community, I hope Cupid has shot his arrow and love has found it's way to you.

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I wonder if the alliance between Garmin and Asus will result in any other products with Garmin navigation software? It looks like the Asus R2H has a GPS in it. I wonder if Garmin Mobile PC would work with it?
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=131&l3=444&l4=0&mo...

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us

http://www.garminasus.com/garminasus/cms/

The Orange County Register had this video on-line today-- The driver in the white car, following the truck, got a ticket for running a red light. He claims he did not run the light and plans to fight it in court.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/light-red-video-2307334-f...

Pretty close to really call.

OK, so in several months my wife and I will be in Ecuador. We'll be heading to Mitad del Mundo, or Center of the World. Now here's the question. What cool things can we do at latitude 0.0 that we can't do anywhere else on earth? I've heard of balancing an egg on a nail at the equator, but does anyone else have any other suggestions that we can do and take pictures of.

hi all u guys

1) happy new year 2009, anyone happy, more happy, most hayyies.

2) any good news for my old gps c320 garmin....

thanxk ....

Here's an article on the recent collision between two satellites. DON'T freak out, they weren't GPS!, but something to think about. There is getting to be quite a bit of junk up there.
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/11/two-satellites-colli...

I own a nuvi750 a guy I work with has a TomTom720
we are always fighting over which is best and it
always ends with him saying the TomTom does the
recalculations faster then Garmin.I have never
had a problem with recalculating missed turns
it does it within seconds So what do you all think
I need some ammo. I love to agervate this guy so
please help