Welcome / open talk

So who is getting their Droid phone this Friday? I have been looking at getting a new phone for a while now, but nothing really spoke out to me other than the iPhone. But, since I am with Verizon I would like to keep it that way. The Droid seems like a good alternative, looking at the features of the phone.

I just discovered that I can load geocaches to my streetpilot via a GSAK file that is treated like a poi fle. Works great using the car Gpsr instead of the handheld while driving from cache to cache.

Here is an awesome site, I tested it, and it's accurate!

http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php

If you encounter a map issue(s) on Navteq based Navigation Systems such as Garmin,(i.e. GPS tells you turn right but actual street is one way you cannot make a right) you can report it here.

This will make improvement to the map provider like NAVTEQ in future map releases I believe.

This link was provided by a member in this forum. Thanks go to him/her.

Original Link -

It seems one of the latest GPS satellites is having signal distortion problems that can affect the accuracy of GPS units.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/02gps/

I wonder if that's why my house keeps drifting - oh wait, the mooring lines slipped.

This week we are recognizing two of our Super Star Members.

A_User and Charlesd45, you both go above and beyond each week in an effort to make this a great place for GPS enthusiasts. We really appreciate both of you and are so proud to have you as part of our extended family.

Miss POI

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.

MaryAnn Melby AKA Miss POI

Hi All,

I’ve crreated a poi .csv file “Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria” (see below), however, I can’t get it to load on either my Nuvi 670 or my Nuvi 880.

Please look at it and tell me if you see any error(s), I need to correct. Although you can’t see it, there are line breaks on every line in this .csv file.

I’m also using the latest version of the PoiLoader for Macintosh.

Hey all
Sorry to say ive been away from the site for a little while what with school and all of the fun stuff associated with that. I'm going on a cross country trip leaving sometime later this week. I am just wondering if there are any must have pois that have recentlty appeared that you would reccomend for this trip? any reccomendations are appreciated. Thanks

Hi

I downloaded the camping POI (Campgrounds and RV Parks Combined)after using the poi loader Pop up said that I added x number of pois. When I do a search on my Garmin 760 in POI folder for campgrounds/camping/rv none come up. What am I doing wrong?

Thx D

OK, not a GPS subject, but given how much bandwidth is used to discuss red light and speed cameras, I figure this is fair game for discussion:

Having been unfairly tagged by a laser equipped police officer, I decided to fight the ticket and after waiting almost 2 years for the case to come to court, I won on a technicality.

I don't have access to Windows or a Mac but would like to create POI files for my Nuvi 750. Has anyone here tried this?

Some of you may be interested the following Web site. There are numerous downloads and GPS related items of interest.
http://www.maps-gps-info.com/fgpfw.html#Windows
I hope this helps some of you and/or entertains you.

When posting a quote in the forums please make sure that you close it with the proper symbols so that the following posts do not get confusing to read.

Thanks,

Miss POI

In the article at the link below "The smartphone as navigator".

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/30/the-s...

This Saturday night, Oct. 31, before you go to bed, you should turn your clocks back one hour to go off daylight-saving time is here again for some of us.Time to Fall back.

You should change the batteries in your smoke alarms
as well.Be Safe

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Garmin Nuvi, 750

I am new to this forum. Installed the Wal-Mart POI
to my nuvi 350 with no problem using the POI Loader.

Then tried to install a Wal-Mart icon from the list but could not get it to work. Any help would really
be appreciated.

RON

I want to thank all the members of this forum for there help after purchasing my new Garmin... I have learn a lot about its uses and that its much more than just a "navigator"... it is also a handy database of places, locations, general information to be used everday and not just for trips..

Again thank you all... see ya !

It's been a long time since I've posted here, but I do check in once and while. Anyway, I was surprised that I haven't seen a post about this (unless I can't find it?). It was a big enough deal to cause both Garmin's and Tom Tom's stock to drop.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/technology/companies/29gps...

When I logon to "Unread Posts" I am seeing duplicated message topics that have duplicate topic, user, & times, everything except for the forum names. Happens in IE7 and Firefox 3.5.3 so I believe it must be a forum software bug.

An example:

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