Welcome / open talk

Everyone knows that POI Factory is the best site for POIs and GPS talk. But the denizens of this site know other things too. Can I convince you to share?

My favorite site for audio books is: http://librivox.org/

Why? Well, it's free of course and simply filled with goodness: Capitan Blood anyone?

I'm a new member as well as a new owner of a magellan 4040. Tried out a garmin 350 for three weeks and finally decided on the magellan. I'm interested to find out more about this site and custom POI.

i am trying to plan a driving trip. i need to check my miliage and time between destinations. the problem i am having is that it always start my destination from home when i want to check it out from a different spot. how can i do this easily?

Saw this of interest:

AP
Companies Line Up to Bid on New GPS
Thursday August 9, 4:33 pm ET
Contractors Line Up to Bid on Defense Department's Next-Generation Navigation System

I have a bmp and an mp3 which I have renamed Redlight-Cameras.bmp and .mp3 respectively, and then ran poi updater, upon street testing it, the standard icon and alert tone were generated, instead of the new custom files, can anyone tell me what I might have done wrong?

signed,

puzzled.....

GPS model: garmin c550

http://home.neo.rr.com/dave4jp/

And found that it takes longer to acquire satellites? I thought it was just me, but a friend at work with the same unit just came out today and told me the exact same thing happened to him! How weird!

Has anyone else noticed this?

i think i know what happened to the last two units. when i'd try to upload files and got the error message saying there wasn't enough room, i'd leave the unit hooked up, drop some files and try it again until it worked.

What's the best way to let a member know of a correction to a POI file? I wanted to let McMargarine know that the location for Red Robin in Birmingham, Alabama is about a 1/2 mile off. It got me close enough that I found it, but I wanted to give an "on site" update.

BTW
33 36.455
-086 38.494

Whatever happened to the POI file for Iowa Rest Stop? I say a file in June and can't seem to locate it now.

Hi everyone

Can any one help with regards the MP3 player on the 670?

I have put a lot of MP3 files on an SD card, the 670 finds them and lists them with no problems. They albums are listed by using M3U

I was creating POI with easy GPS and sent to my c530.
Now nothing is available and when I discount from the computer my garmin will not shutdown.

I did backup all my files but I cannot find the drive to reinstall.

Can someone help me?

If you do not have a pre-loaded map of let's say....New Zealand, and were there on vacation, can you use your GPS?

I dl'd the following and executed it: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/webspace9/Trial/GeePeeExInstall...

I was given a dialog saying that I was about to install a trial version of GeePeeEx. Next came the setup dialog for something called ErrorKiller.

It appears that www.poi2go.com is down. Anybody know of another location of the file?

I got my update disk on Friday and eagerly started on updating my Nuvi 360. I placed the DVD in the computer and all was proceeding automatically without much input from me.

While waiting for my computer to do it's thing, I decided to do some work on the computer (Big mistake). To make a long story short, my other work crashed and this forced me to re-boot my machine during the update.

Fletch at gps magazine raises some very interesting questions that sure make sense. Where is GPS 2.0?

http://www.gpsmagazine.com/2007/08/where_the_hell_is_gps_20....

This week we are recognizing Motorcycle Mama and Lsmonop as our contributors of the week. We are also giving honorable mention to Mikeyg75 and The Radio Guys.

MM, I know that everyone here is really happy to have you back in action. You are such an inspiration to me in everything you do.

Lsmonop, your advice and help is always appreciated by all. Thanks for being such a nice guy.

Hi Folks
Just got my new 660 today
Love it already
How do i get the sounds into the poi Library
They open on my computer in Quicktime and wont allow me the option of saving?

Any help ou there

JAy

how do i get for free the download of the map update 2008 navigator nt for usa?

Can someone help me. I have my music collection stored on a 2 Gig SD card plugged into my Nuvi 660. When I copy albums from iTunes they show up with the album as the folder and all the album songs in the folder. Next I created a mix folder called mymix. I then copied a number of songs into the mix folder just like you would on an iPod.