Welcome / open talk

Google Earth is a great crutch if you need one! IF you're looking for a specific place and don't have much information, google earth is a great place to reference. If you're looking for coordinates it will give you that as well.

It's great for Geocaching!

New guy on the site, really like it here
Have a wierd problem, I can't get the sound files to save to a file on the computer,
I right and/or left click the file and it immediately opens Media Player or Quicktime. No "save" or "save to" anywhere. I can't get them to save in my folder.
Doing something dumb, don't know what. Computer litterate except today for this issue.

Any help???

In Seattle, a bus driver reminded all of us that a GPS is a co-pilot, not an auto-pilot. Apparently, the driver says he did not see the flashing lights indicating that the bridge had a 9 foot height limit. The GPS had given him the route, so he figured it was fine. The end result? The bus is now one ugly convertible.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/359497_bus18.html

Miss poi did we get 75000 members yet

I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'm wondering if it is only me who has this problem. On long, multi-page threads, having more than 50 posts, when I try to go to just the new posts by clicking on that number, I am taken to the top of the first page of that thread. No problem on short, single-page threads.

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.

This week we are recognizing two individuals that jumped on board the Antique Store project this week.

Jborsari, was able to supply two files this week, one for West Virginia and one for Maryland. Thanks for helping out with those;)

You know who you guys out there on this forum. Show Garmin and the represent the POI Factory and bring home the gold...

Here's the link:

http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/mechanic/

I set up a route on Mapquest and d/l it to my Nuvi 350 and got a successful d/l message but when I run the route on the Nuvi, it is the regular route that Nuvi would show and not the one that I set up.

Anyone else had this problem? I e-mailed Mapquest about this but have not heard back from them. Thanks

I've noticed some files like the antiques file and the rest area file are usually on the front page. what determines if/when a file appears on the front page?

Ran into this article on autoblog. As has been stated often, a GPS unit can't overcome stupidity.

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/18/driver-puts-faith-in-gps-...

Hi everyone! I just purchased my 1st GPS (Magellan Maestro 3225) from Costco. I've been using Magellan in Hertz's cars for a while, so I thought I'd give them more business!

Hi Everyone,
I am new to this GPS receiver stuff and would like to know if all GPS units display my latitude and longitude of where I would be standing at that time.I want to find vacant land for sale and many times they give this info out.
Thanks in advance!!!

Hi everyone
Just got my first gps a TomTom One. Has anyone done any geocaching with this unit. Also I have a coworker who would like to buy one for camping and fishing spots. Is this unit any good if you are off the road in the middle of a forest and you find a fishing hole you want to come back to another time?
Jerry

Hi,

Hello everyone,
I have a Garmin 660; I was able to download POI, icon, and sound alert for redlight cameras. I have downloaded another POI, BankofAmerica; it downloads OK, I can see them listed under custom POIs, but I cannot get them to display. I have downloaded the BofA .bmp icon, and the names are identical (except for the file type)...any suggestions? Thanks, Steve

I don't know if this has been posted before, but this site has free audio books in MP3 format.

www.audiobooksforfree.com/home

Is there a POI file listing "Country Clubs". Have a friend with a nuvi 200w wanting me to load a few poi's and she's wanting country clubs in the Ohio area.Didn't see anything listed...

The still-growing suburb of Pickerington may soon require POI red-light alerts ...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008...

Hi All,

I am using poi-2.5-final-20040302.jar for my project to create excel files.
My system is having Microsoft Excel 2002 (SP-2) version, but my client is having Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (SP-3).
My problem is that I can download the excel file with no formatting issues , but client is not able to download the same and is getting error as