Welcome / open talk

Our 2025 vehicle came with 3 mos free XM, then the next 3 mos was $2 plus tax equals $2.12.

The 2011 vehicle that we no longer have, had, and has, a $2.99/mo offer, but, it is NOT transferable to another radio.

The XM was expiring and going to renew at $28.98 plus royalty and taxes, and they are all going up some $2 and change per month.

that's a hall and oates ICGFT.

This week we're recognizing, GpsG!

GpsG is new to our POI Factory community, but he's starting off strong by adopting a POI file to maintain and contributing to several threads in our discussion forums.

Welcome, GspG, and thanks for contributing to our POI Factory community!

~Angela

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

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

~Angela

The constant loss of mail, is befuddling.

I know because I get a daily email from informed delivery, showing me a scan of things that are supposed to come that day.

From memory, here's a list of things that never made it.

Maybe Angela and Jonathan are just getting tired of putting in the effort it takes to keep them going (understandable), but after almost two decades, it seems interest in posting and seeing these seems to be waning... I've suggested needed updates to the Hall of Fame pages for both COW and COY, but get no reply and see no changes as of a few minutes ago.

This week we're recognizing, Ajasaro!

Ajasaro has been a member of POI Factory for over 18 years!

We're recognizing him this week for his contributions in file maintaining. Ajasaro is one of our uber maintainers and we appreciate all of the time and effort he puts in to maintaining so many files for our community.

Thanks, Ajasaro!

~Angela

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

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

~Angela

This is the official POI Factory Joke thread.

Please read all the forum rules before posting, and keep in mind...

"POI Factory is not a forum for politically charged debate.
Let's avoid topics that already have a long list of Democrat or Republican talking points or that name specific politicians."

This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

Perhaps you can post on a new book you're reading, a new hobby you're taking up or about random finds as you finally get around to cleaning out the..., or your most recent adventure?

Anything to keep your windmill alive.

Please keep comments polite.

This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

--Angela

This update provides support for Air Tags (2nd gen) and general bug fixes.

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

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

~Angela

New member checking in! Quick question for the regulars: what POI files do you find most useful other than the traffic cameras? Anything interesting that is not widely available on google maps?

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

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

~Angela

With a new version of GE some clean up comments have been posted. Along those lines you might review the thread at http://www.poi-factory.com/node/50977 for guidance in cleaning up old map files, each of which can be around 6 to 8 GB..

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

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

~Angela

Garmin Express 7.28.0.0 is now available

I use IPadOS 18.7.3 which was released around December 12th 2025. I just went into Settings to check for a possible update and the only thing presented is version 26.2. It doesn’t even inform the user what version is being used, just immediately goes to downloading 26.2 unless you have auto updates OFF.

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

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

~Angela

My wife and I are RVing right now and we have been in Gulf Shores the past week. For internet, I have been using an Inseego MiFi X Pro 5G M3000. I noticed that when I bring up Google maps, my location was not shown. I found out that the M3000 has an internal GPS, but it was turned off. I enabled it and Google maps once again shows my current location.

And it felt good.

I found a wallet on the sidewalk.

I was going to turn it into the police, but my wife said just knock on the door, and leave it (the address was the street behind us and a ways up the road).

It was a 20 yo kid's wallet--no money, DL,bank card, debit card, health care.