Welcome / open talk

...just daydreaming...

Anybody out there who owns a Garmin Nuvi 250W ? Your thoughts and comments on the unit. I will appreciate your input. Thanks.

Alex

Is there a website that allows realtime tracking of my Garmin 660?

David Brooks did an interesting column in the NY Times on GPS and other tech gadgets. I am sure many of us can relate too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html?ref=...

here are some Letter To The Editor Responses:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/opinion/l30brooks.html?_r=...

Making a quick stop at a gas station I didn’t put my Garmin in its protective case to slide it under my seat to keep it out of view. When I pulled it back out it has a short but deep scratch on the screen. Anyone know of some way to make the scratch less visible, like filling in the scratch? Or does the screen have a protective cover that I could buy and replace myself?

I found a cool program to compare 2 POI files, handy if you want to compare the old red light camera file to the new updated one (or whatever two files you want) to see what new cameras have been added. This program is used to compare text files but it works with the POI files...... its called "AptDiff" and you can get it from here:

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/aptdiff/aptdiff.html

card can be found here, if you like the oldies. Some do, and some do not.
http://www.glewis.us/v7th_Recon/jukeboxlabeled1.htm
There is no registration, but how you get it on your SD is up to you. I capture with Super Mp3 Recorder.

Anyone have problems today Oct 30 with Google Earth Loading i uninstalled and reinstalled and it still wont load

How do I send a private message to someone in POI Factory?
Thanks

has anyone heard of Navigon?

http://experiencenavigon.com/

it looks really cool, they offer a lifetime subscription to traffic.

Hi,

I would really appreciate if someone can tell me how to delete all the unused vehicle icons and sound profiles of other languages which I don't use at all, so that I could free some space and have less clutter.(I have backed up my entire folders/files to my computer).
Thanks

WindChill

Garmin jumps into fight for Dutch mapmaker

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/31/news/international/bc.apfn.e...

Happy Halloween to all of you guys!

Just as a matter of interest...

When you zoom in or out on the Nuvi (and others I presume) a small map scale is in the mid bottom of the screen and shows 800m or 3 km or whatever.

What is that distance?
From the front of the vehicle icon to the top of the screen?
Total screen hight/ width?

Was just wondering about it as I barrelled along at 160km/h...

Any replies welcome.

Now most software have free update, like cell phone too.

but only garmin don't give their customers get free update??? their software is very specific ????

Any opinions on using Garmin on the Sprint phones?

Hi, I got a flyer today from Walmart and they have the Garmin C330 on sale for less than 200 dollars, $198.84, just thought I would Pass it since they were $248.00.

I am having a horrible time trying to download pois to my garmin 650. I am not that computer literate. What I have done is downloaded a file from this web site to my computer. Then tried to copy that file into the garmin into the poi file. It does show in the garmin\poi file as a gpx file but is not on my garmin. What am I doing wrong. thanks Frank

Our web hosting service had an outage this morning that started around 10:30 AM Eastern and lasted about 20 minutes.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

JM

On November 13th the Nuvi 680 becomes available at Costco and on Novenber 19th the Nuvi 650 becomes available with a $150.00 discount. No word yet on what the costs will be.