Welcome / open talk
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 17 years
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Chatty Kathy Thread for the week of October 29th 2007
Ok here it is the first chatty kathy thread... here 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.
Miss Poi
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17 years
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Contributors of the week 2007-10-22
This week we are recognizing Drdevo and Giscard as our contributors of the week.
Drdevo, you took on the task of creating the highly desired time zone file. I know that many of us will be using that file and we all appreciate the time and energy that you invested in that project. Great Job!!!
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16 years
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Nuvi 660 Memory
Although I've used the 660 for about a year, I have just discovered the POI Factory.
Just how do I find out how much memory the 660 has?
Should all downloads be on a SD card to save internal memory, or does the 660 have lots of memory?
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16 years
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New Map Partners For Garmin
Garmin haqs announced a new set of maps to be made available that are aimed at senic drives. One set of regional maps for the whole country and another set for weekend getaways. For the Zumo folks they have a set for the nation biggest motorcycle rallies.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM0...
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 17 years
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Tone of Voice
Does your GPSr sound disgusted when you miss a turn and it has to recalculate?
Mine sounds like:
(Disgusted sigh ... REcalculating) Emphasis on the Re.
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16 years
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red light cameras in brooklyn, newyork
Hi everyone i am new from brooklyn newyork these red light cameras are growing by the hour how do i add the locations of these cameras?
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16 years
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Parameter is incorrect
I have a Nuvi 650 which was sent as a replacement from Garmin for a Nuvi 650 which would not acquire satellites. I have tried to download additional vehicles through webupdater and tried to download files using poi loader and I get the same error message, "parameter is incorrect." I have tried to download the files using windows xp and vista with no luck.
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17 years
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active user
just curious, how come i'm not an active user, its been 2 weeks and 2 days.......thanks
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17 years
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A brief Rant...sort of off topic...
Garmin ad during a football game....one of their Christmas ads...with the "give a give a give a Garmin" take-off of a the traditional tune...
The Rant: It's not even (bleep) Halloween yet, and they feel it necessary to run Christmas ads. By the time it gets here, I'm already so sick of the ads that I can't wait for Christmas to be over.
OK...rant over...
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16 years
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Sound alerts
Does anyone know how, if possible, to change the time between sound alerts. My 660 gives a sound alert about every 5-6 seconds. This gets nerve racking when the alerts are set to start 2 miles from the POI.
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16 years
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New to POI's
Hello,
I've had my Zumo 550 since May07 and took it from Vancouver to Sturgis and back this past summer. I wish I had run into this site before. The rest stops POI would have helped us plan our route with interim stops alot easier.
Cheers,
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17 years
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Custom POI on the 760
I just got my 760 last week and transferred my Custom POI's over. The poi loader finds the garmin but my only option is Garmin\E. I recieve the error message "there was a problem transferring your custom POI's to your device. Run poi again. Strange because they did transfer over. Anyone else seeing this or am i just a Noob?
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17 years
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C530 new software available>>>
Just checked and version 6.00 is available as of 10-12-07...did not recall seeing it posted here...if it was, my apologies for the redundancy.
Regards, Ted
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17 years
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Restaurant Review site
If you've ever gone to one of the restaurants listed on your GPS only to be greatly disappointed, you might want to check this site for a review.
You can do it before you leave on your journey or on the road, if you have a phone with Internet access. www.roadfood.com
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16 years
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Sprint Mobile Stores
Anybody know of a POI for sprint store locations THANKS
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17 years
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GPS may get you out of a speeding ticket
The following came from a site called "Tech Dirt": This is one of those "why didn't I think of that" things.
Stan
GPS Tracking: Drivers' New Best Friend?
from the the-honorable-judge-garmin-presiding dept
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17 years
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Cow Nominations for the week of October 22nd 2007
Here ya go folks;)
Miss Poi
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16 years
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First Time User
This POI site is very interesting. Is it hard to use?
I do alot of driving in the NY, NJ, CT area. I just got a new Garmin C550 upgraded from teh Garmin 330.
searching street names
today i found a cool way to search for a street names on my nuvi 360. Im sure you guys might already know this.
"where to?"
"address"
"pick which state"
"search All"
"skip "the enter house number" by clicking done
"enter street name"
"choose the top choice for "Aly, Cir, Ct, Ln, St" etc
"then choose city"
it seems to work sometimes but not always which i don't understand why...