Welcome / open talk

This week we are recognizing Poppywhite and Dockster as our contributors of the week.

Poppywhite, This week you worked on the La Quinta Inn's project located here: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/21192. Great job on this project it turned out really nice.

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

For some reason when I remove the old red light alerts and installed the new ones I lost the voice on my unit that alerts instead of the beep. It still shows it and I can play it on the computer in the garmin voice section. any help would be greatly appreciated.

We are about to get the red light and speed camera's in Quebec and I was wondering if they were set very accurate. By that I mean if a police officer was there with a manual radar gun he would usually not pull you over if you were only marginally over the speed limit, usually 5 - 10%. Do the speed cameras cut you any slack or is it 1km over the limit and your picture is taken?

I have a new Nuvi 265WT and I noticed that the amp light on the receiver that plugs into the cigarette lighter, always shows RED. It never turns green or yellow. I still get traffic and my 265 charges and works fine but I am concerned because I have never had a receiver the stayed red, they all have an amber or green light when functioning correctly.

I have a TomTom voice file vif and chk. Can I change it some how to work on my Garmin

I just bought a Nuvi 885T, and I can't pair my LG Voyager with it. I received a message on screen a couple of times when plugging it in to my CPU that says BLUETOOTH FIRMWARE UPDATING. Unfortunately every time I get this message the screen freezes at about one percent and my CPU USB port recognizing the Nuvi interrupts and seems to cancel the update.

I just moved into the new millennium and finally bought a GPS. I recently got a red light camera ticket and I just wanted some feedback about how useful the red light POI's are. By the way Im in NY.

I went to a restaurant tonight for a quick bite. As I leave, I notice the car parked next to me has the GPS on the dash. Worse still, the GPS is still plugged into the car charger and turned on.

It was a Magellan or a TomTom unit, mounted on a bean bag, and hooked up to the AC charger. The display was really bright in the dim parking lot.

I was surfing on the web over the weekend and I found some info saying that the NGS was going to issue some new maps and/or aerial photos (digital) that would work with the GEOPDFTool bar for pdf files.

Tried to find it again and couldn't find it. I even went through the browser history, page by page with no luck.

here an interesting (and funny) article that reinforces the fact that you need to know what you have your avoidances set to, and not to blindly trust a gps unit!

http://tech.msn.com/security/articlecnet.aspx?cp-documentid=...

Hello someone, is there any kind of program or files that can make my point of interests more informational??? Example: like the restaurants maybe include a menu?? Or Venues include a calender of events??? please help

Anyone knows he exact specs for the .csv file ? I read something about a forth column but cannot find further information.

While they haven't exactly labeled it as a "speed trap", The Triple A has decided to add a special advisory to maps of Arizona indicating the state is a "strict enforcement zone." The reason is the speed camera program aimed at planting dozens of fixed and mobile units on all major freeways and highways (they're well on their way already).

This week we are recognizing WorldDrknss and Bobdee as our contributors of the week.

WorldDrknss, You have been working on a POI Manager program for the community and I am really excited about all the great reports that are coming in. You are a great contributor to the site.

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

Have you all seen the new line of Navigon devices?

http://www.gpslodge.com/archives/024796.php#more

While not a Navigon user, they certainly have led a lot of the innovation of late in the market. The thing I really like is the different routing options and the times given to you before you start navigating.

POI Factory's email service was not working reliably today from about 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern. Our web host has fixed the problem.

During the outage, some emails from the web site did not reach their recipients.

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Not surprising with the economy and gas prices earlier in 2008:

http://www.gpslodge.com/archives/cat_traffic_news.php

From GPS Tracklog-based on hits to reviews NOT sales. Also includes top 10 handhelds.

http://www.gpstracklog.com/gps_tracklog/2009/03/top-ten-gps-...