Welcome / open talk

 

Proximity Alerts

Does any of the POI files contain proximity alerts besides the red light camera locations? Rest stops along the highways would be nice to know ahead of time when traveling 70+ MPH in traffic along the nations highways. An alert might give one time to actually use the rest stop. Advance alerts of other locations would also be very helpful.

screen protection

anyone use a screen protection agains scratches - i found this one
http://www.invisibleshield.com/

comments are welcome

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marnoldi Nuvi 680 & Nuvi 2797LMT

West U. council bans cell phone use in school zones

Another opportunity for a wave file... along with school zone POI.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/bellaire/news/5647496...

Quote:

The West University Place City Council on Monday unanimously approved an ordinance to ban cell phone usage by motorists in active school zones.

The ordinance must be approved a second time at council's next meeting on April 14 to become law.

Dumbest robbery suspect (off topic)

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Garmin Nüvi 650, 255WT

GPS for sale-Post your GPS systems that you are selling here!

What are you selling?

Request for Information (RFI)

All here is my formal RFI to the PDGA for thier information. I am sure allot of you can craft better wording etc. Also I am a member of good standing with the PDGA for over 28 years...so my langauge and wording is tempered to that end...

Request for Information (RFI)

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It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

How to search for specific POI files

Sorry folks, but the search engine in this software is next to useless. I wanted to find out if there is a POI file for Borders and/or Barnes & Noble. Can anyone tell me how to construct a search or find a web page that will answer that question?

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DC Area, Nuvi 2797

idk (trip from NJ to CO)

Yo do you guys have any tips for a trip fron NJ to CO

via I-76, I-80

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Nicpfeif12 Garmin Nuvi 5000 =)/ Winnebago 24f Minnie/ PHILLIES 07 NL east champps/ Philidelphia PHILLIES 2008 World Champss/ PHILLIES 09 NL CHAMPS/ 2010 NL EAST CHAMPIONS

New Question about POI's

When people do poi's for the usa why do they leave the city and or state out of the address. I could understand for one's for a certain state, but I think it would be more helpful when that info is there for ones covering the whole USA.

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

Chatty Charley thread for the week of March 24th 2008

This is the place to talk about things that are not gps related, you can discuss whatever you would like, as long as it is clean. Remember we have families that have their children involved in the GPS fun and we don't want to make parents feel uncomfortable when their children ask what that word means.

Have fun...

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

Contributors of the week 2008-03-17

This week we are recognizing Johnm405, Adcusnret, and Mzrnva.

Johnm405, You have been asking some really great questions this week and have been very helpful in the forums.

Adcusnret, Sometimes someone will shine for a week and some will shine for months. You are one of those that is not active all the time but when you are active you really contribute a lot.

Tell me if this isn't screwed up (wrong address location)

Wow, Mapquest did better then my garmin and google maps.

1382 Hwy. 258 South, Kinston, North Carolina, 28504

in google maps and garmin, it puts you on 258 NORTH, not south, but mapquest got it right.

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Charley - Nuvi 350 - Bel STI Driver - Cobra 29 w/ wilson 1000 - AIM: asianfire -

POI Messages

If this is posted twice today by me I ask for forgiveness as it was a senior moment

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

HAPPY EASTER !!!

Wishing you all a Happy Easter. Be safe, and arrive alive smile

Mapsource Question

I just got my Mapsource disk and installed it. My question is: I created a route and did the tranfer to my 750, but when I went to routes, it's not showing up wtih the name I gave it.

I did a seach, but with 77 pages, and after reading the many comments, couldn't find out where the route went.

Thanks

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Nuvi 50LM Nuvi 2555LM

European Lat/Lon coordinates problem...

Hi All,

I used Google Earth, as well as Google maps to find an address, in Geneva Switzerland and the coordinates it gave me were:
Latitude "46.191804" and Longitude "6.154854"
(Google Earth didn't show a minus(-) at the beginning of the Longitude.

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Sullivan's Law: Murphy was an optimist!

quicker way to obtain lat/lon

I was wondering if someone could tell me a quicker way to get coordinates than manually writing them down from Google Earth. I figure if I am already pointing my mouse at a desired location, shouldn't there be a way to click and copy those coordinates to the computer's clipboard?

NEWB (Jeep Trail Guide)

Hi everyone! I'm Rob. I just bought my Jeep Trail Guide the other day, and now I'm just waiting for it to come in! For those of you not familiar with it, it's basically a rebadged Garmin Quest 2 along with a custom base that mounts to my Jeep Wrangler's dash that charges the unit, and has built in speakers...it can get a little loud in a Jeep without the doors or top on!

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Jeep Trail Guide (Garmin Quest 2)

VA GPSr users - Dinner?

Just wondered if anyone would be interested in organizing a meet with all VA (or anyone else) GPSr users. We could meet at a well known public restaurant (such as Outback) and have dinner at a location that is central to everyone. It would be fun to go somewhere that no one has been too (but can be verified). It would give us something to talk about during dinner, how we did/didn't get lost.

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Charley - Nuvi 350 - Bel STI Driver - Cobra 29 w/ wilson 1000 - AIM: asianfire -

Road No Longer Exist

Does anyone know how to file a report for roads that no longer exist so they can be updated when the new map software becomes available. The road I am referring to has not been used in over 10 years so I would think the location should be already updated but it is not as of the 2008 software update from Garmin.

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Garmin DriveSmart 61