Welcome / open talk

Mid January I have to drive from Indianapolis IN to Sacramento CA for work. I'm really trying to make this trip a little bit more fun than the standard shlep. I'll have a couple days to do it so I want to take this opportunity to see some of the country.

Any popular highways that you would recommend for a cross country trip like this?

Most GPS devices that allow you to create point of interest (POI) files (such as the Garmins), require you to input the point as a latitude,longitude value with a description.

Tools like Google Maps allow you to locate points of interest, but one has to typically jump through hoops (read - try and pick the lat,long value from the URL) to get at the latitude, longitude values.

The header reads ; Drivers Beware. The City of Marietta, Georgia ( NW Atlanta ) have added a new Redlight Camera to come online on Jan 12, 2009. The link is below.

http://www.mdjonline.com/content/index/showcontentitem/area/...

Hi. I don't know how much flexibility POI Factory has with the forum software, or even what forum software is being used, but I would like to suggest a small enhancement that I think a lot of users would appreciate, I know I certainly would.

Hi,
I was looking for e-books reader for my wife. there are several options (Sony, etc) which allow you to read books, view pictures and listen to music.
It seems to me as a very easy feature to add to GPS, allowing you to have many books available for reading with you.
Has anyone know about GPS unit which support this functionality? (not audio books).

This thread has nothing to do with GPS. Here are a couple nice events that tell what Christmas is all about:

http://www.nhra.com/content/news/34465.htm
and
http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2008/12/24...

Have a Merry Christmas, everyone.

RT

Could someone tell me what US battery would work for an Italian toy that calls for a half torch battery. Used google to translate instructions and it calls for button and half torch batteries.

Many thanks

I have loaded a custom POI onto my garmin, all the poi's are listed and the images show up when I click the GO! button but if I am not routing to a location my proximity warning does not go off. I have heard that mp3's do not work on the 200 so I converted and loaded warnings in a .wav format. I have them labeled correctly in my POI folder.
NEED HELP

I have seen some interesting screen names/userID and was
just wondering what was the tought/meaning behind the name. I know some of them are personal names in short form but what do the rest represent.

I will start:

DRMCMTR: DReaM CoMe TRue. This is my personal plate on my car.

Just want to say hello. And also to thank everyone for posting those POI's. This forum has been very helpfull.

Cheers!!

This week we are recognizing Charlesd45 and Gary A as our contributors of the week.

Charlesd45, You have been very active in the forums this week and have helped a lot of people solve their GPS frustrations. Great Job!!!

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

I would like to wish all the members of the POI Factory a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!!

http://www.thesentinel.com/302730670790449.php

Kids...what will they think of next.

I was sitting here this morning prepping my nuvi 765T for my Christmas holiday drive to South Carolina, creating some new custom POI's and alerts, loading some fresh mp3's on the 8GB SD card, and creating some playlists.

What is the correct/acceptable way of submitting errors and omissions in POI files available on this site?
To the "owner" on the POI package page?

I suppose it says it someplace and I just have not found it.

Thanks

I am wondering is anybody here has used Navizon. It sounds like it could be helpful in areas where GPS cannot be received directly from satellites.

http://www.navizon.com/

I use Google maps all the time for custom pois.I stumbled across this video that may come in handy for someone wanting to make their own maps and adding pictures etc. See http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62... and click on Watch a video on how to create my maps.

Hi All

Might I suggest placing an anchor in each post.

That would facilitate a direct link to the target post vs the target thread.

Users could then link the specific post and the referred party won't need to read the entire thread looking for the info referred to.

Unless of course, the forum design prevents this.

Just a thought.

OK, I know I've done this in the past but I can't remember how for the life of me. I'm trying to download an mp3 file. How do I do it? Clicking it just brings up a player to play the file and right clicking doesn't seem to offer any option that aplies.

Thanks