Welcome / open talk

I currently use the Garmin Nuvi 860 but was thinking about buying the TomTom GO920 because it is on sale at Costco.com for $399.00 and includes maps of North America and Europe. Since the full CD of Europe from Garmin was about $300.00, I figured I would pay the extra $100.00 and get Europe maps and a backup GPSR with additional features, but I know very little about TomTom and the GO920.

Ok I am going to give you advance notice that this post is going to be emotional and very loving to the people that I am honoring.

With this Contributor of the week we close on the year 2007, so I am doing a special recognition post to two very special and very important people within our community.

I wanted to let you guys know how many people signed up this week to participate in the forums.

3,849 new members have joined in the last 7 days. Since Christmas day we have been getting 10,000 visits a day.

At the top of most, if not all, pages on this fantastic website is a window labeled Seach. This is a good place for all newbies to start. If you have a question, please check this out before posting. Not only will you probably get your question answered, you'll probably find the answer to the next question you were going to ask. There's also the FAQ link. Gobs of good information here.

This morning I had two pages of unread threads, most of which have been answered over and over again. Not only would using these site features help with this problem, it just might reduce the site traffic enough that JM and Miss POI won't have to 'spend' for a new Server right now.

Thanks.

RT

I am getting virus alerts each time I navigate to this site and from page to page within this site, is anyone else getting that?

HELP..finally created a new poi file for the wifes favorite health food establishments...followed the directions from this web site and some one on one coaching..

I couldn't fine these suggested on the forums anywhere. Two thoughts that may already be on the site "to do" list:

1) A "subscribe to" for POI files, so that we could get an e-mail when a POI file is updated.

2) On threads with multiple pages, it would be handy to have the page numbers and links at the top of the page as well as the bottom.

poi-factory as well as gpspassion all seem to be filled w/ garmin enthuisiasts based on # of posters. (i'm also a garmin users). wonder where are the tomtom folks go....

We had some troubles with our hosting service today. The site was unreachable for about 2.5 hours starting shortly after 2PM Eastern.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

JM

Is there a way to delete some of the post in our track file?

Hey,

Just got a Garmin c550 and my wife has a Nuvi 200W. Great little devices and hopefully we can come up with some interesting POI's to share in NC. I already found a listing of NC wineries and BBQ places, so not sure what will be left!

Thanks!

Can someone direct me to a past post/discussion on creating a custom step by step "poi" file. Would like to surprise the wife by installing it on her nuvi 200 and have it alert it to when she's by her favorite health food establishment. I have excel and the six locations close by to us.

Hope everyone has A Safe And Prosporous HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hi great forum . I have tried to load a couple of your great poi files to my lg ln730 they load great except that all I see in the list is the latitude nothing else . When I click on this the response is not found on this map. I have read where the order of the columns may be wrong in the cvs file. any help would be appreciated . And yes I have read the getting started and faqs. Dennis

I'm not computer literate, but I've been "volunteered" to set up a discussion forum for our paddling club. I really like the way this forum is set up. Is this "software" available to anyone or is it custom?

BTW, does anyone know of a good source for kayak put-in locations in the NE?

A new owner, I am overdosing on custom POIs, but it occurs to me that some will be announcing themselves to me as I hurtle down a freeway at not-quite-legal speeds. How do I choose the distance at which various categories will announce themselves?

Happy new year to you all!

Excuse me for sounding ignorant, but i am new to the GPS user end of things and i have been looking over the POI. What exactly do i do with them if i download a POI file and what exactly does it do? Thanks

I noticed on E-bay, a seller in the U.K. is offering battery replacements for the Nuvie 6xx series. The cost is about $20 bucks.
Only hook.....no instructions.

Good Morning to All and thanks for reading.

I recently purchased my first GPS, a MIO C220 and generally pretty happy with it. Some of the reviews I saw before purchase I thought were unwarranted, especially about screen brightness.

This is my first GPS, so I certainly am not a wizard on GPS's.