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Some people are working on Volvo Dealers (USA-In Progress), but have furnished me with .gpx files and I don't have a clue how to convert them to .cvs files. I know "poiedit" will do that, but can't to seem to work my way through it.

I purchased the C330 for my husband for his birthday. I am now traveling away from home and am using his C330 until I purchase one for my car. I noticed that the preset POIs in the GPS are old. The places that are listed are no longer even there. Is there a way to remove them?

I have a Garmin 530. When the base is attached to the ball of the suction mount, it appears to be loose on the ball. The base just pivots down without any pressure. Is there anyway to fix this? thanks

I called Garmin technical support to find out how to change my vehicle icon and the man mentioned something about playing video on me 680. Does anyone know what I need to do to play video files?

thx,
Jen

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My Garmin 680 has food listings built in, but there's no rating. I enjoy eating at places where the locals frequent. Does anyone know if there's a POI for local favorites in various U.S. cities?

Thx,
Jen

Be careful using the POI file for Smokey Bones. A large amount have closed this week with more to come. Darden has pulled the plug.

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I was just starting to play with the buddylist feature here and it is neat. I think it might even be helpful at times.. I think I am going to start to use it and see how it works out!

I will most likly make everyone here my buddy since3 everyone is cool!! :}

I have mapsource and am tring to get my favortes off of my gps but Mapsource says there are no file..
I have about 10 favortes and can pull them down..

Also I want to use mapsorce to "Travel" before I really go, Doing this on the GPS seems to be in real time and so slow.

I am thinking about going to Buffalo (may fly) NY next month and routed it. I want to be on major highways all the time, even if it is the longer route. However, it takes me on secondary roads.

So I thought, why not make a multi-point POI and go to each point and then go to the next one, that way, I can stay on the highways. Has anyone done this?

i owned a c 330 for 2 years and i am on my third unit garmin has been great about fixing or sending me a new unit but this is gettin old problems consits of unit will not run on the battery it has to be plugged into the car or the usb cable to power up .

Nickjr posted on how to replace the tone with a voice. You need software to convert the wav to a mp3.

I did it for you. Its a female voice. I am willing to send it to anyone who requests it. Just PM me with your email and I will send.

I figure its something I can do to give back to this community for helping me out so much!

if I may be so bold, I'd like to nominate bobkz...the trusted auto repair shop project is a GREAT idea!

Thanks for thinking of and doing this Bob!

Regards, Ted

Ok, now that I installed mapsource v8 on my laptop, I would like to use my CSV files and import them in so that I can check to make sure the addresses are close to where they are to be. Only problem is I dont know how to do this.

I would also like to create poi files in the mapsource and make them CSVs to upload here..

There are a few programming projects I'd like to tackle soon for POI Factory:

* database import - import locations from CSV and GPX formats into the web site database (each location becomes a separate record in the database).

* workflow system - track requests and work assignments for creating / updating POI

There are a lot of POI's that I might need at some time, but don't want to load them on my nuvi 660 or on my laptop. Can I download the POI's to a jump drive or SD card to save for a future downloads to my nuvi via my laptop.

I just posted the POI for motorcycle delaerships for BMW with phone numbers. Enjoy.

At this website there is no single method to report POI problems or fixes. I noticed RT, Miss POI, myself and others spending quite a bit of time fixing up POIs. Also on some occasions it was cumbersome to contact the correct POI owner. With so many POIs the problem will only get worse.

I recently found this site. It really nice that people would take the time to do all this.

Sadly, the POI files are so badly riddled with errors it makes them unusable.

For example I downloaded the file for Love's truck stops. I have one in my area. The POI file shows two . It Puts one where one does not exist and puts the second on a wrong road 6 miles away.