Welcome / open talk

This week we are recognizing justaguy4321, Rick5266 and Bobkz

Justaguy4321 got us stated with the idea of a sound library by sending us a mp3 copy of a red light camera alert. We are still working on building a sound library.

I would like permission to grap some of the POI files here and incorporate them in State files that I am making. I am breaking out my "USAPOI Tourist Guide for " and creating States for them.. I am tring to make this into a "Book" of places to go in each state.

I am getting confused on all of the Intersate rest areas files. We have files and updates on individual states, an Interstate All, poi, another update, Interstate 48, file. Is there just one Interstate poi that covers all, so I can delete all of the other interstate poi's?

has anyone noticed the ad for avis on tv which features the garman 500 series, and by the way the bean bag mount. if it were a danger in an accident, i dont believe a rental company would use it. lol

Is Garmin and Tom Tom the same company and the best one is????

This week Best Buy is having a sale on a ScanDisk 4GB SD HC memory card for $40. No rebates, just a straight price. To make it an even better deal, it includes a card reader that works for both SD and SD HC. A great deal if you are in the market. My Zumo will love the additional space for MP3's.

I'm enjoying getting to know this forum. Is there any way to "subscribe" to a thread without posting to it?

I have a SP c550. I have a question about some of the other Garmin units. My brother had an old Garmin that he could see the Lat/Long. on the unit, or maybe he could put in the Lat/Long. and see it on the GPS. But, I cannot do that on the 550. Do any of the new models let you use the Lat/Long. to see it on the GPS or see the Lat/Long for a Favorite you saved?

My daughter is going to UT (Univeristy of Texas) in the fall. I found something really cool on the UT website; the UT GPS coordinates for different buildings and parking areas. I have not seen that before, but figure that is not the only school or business out there that offers their own POI's (or the info needed to create a POI file).

I95 mm17 sc north bound was removed. They took the drive up also. don't think it is goin back.

Yeah so I will be traveling to Vancouver for a week, do you guys know of certain places that are MUST SEE?

Thank you,

Hey all, been away traveling on business for quite some time now and miss the crowd here, which I see how grown tremendously.

I'm new to the site and plan to spend time catching up. But I have two "novice user" questions I'd appreciate answers to in order to save time digging for answers right away.

I found a tool for converting .csv formated poi's to .gpx but the only difference I could tell was a much larger file. Are there any benefits to converting to a .gpx file format?

using media player 9 on windows xp. My computer & media player show files loaded but I cannot find them on my nuvi 350. Can anyone help? Thanks

Isn't bluetooth compatible is it??

If you discover an error in one of the existing POI files, what is proper procedure to have it corrected? I can do the fix fairly easily, but what is 'proper' protocol?

Thanks in advance!

Alright, here is your opportunity to praise your fellow factory buddies for all their hard work this week.

Miss Poi

Hi!

With the Garmin POI's, they have them neatly sorted into category folders: Auto, Restaurants, etc.

I not very successful on getting them to latch on to the POIs I've downloaded. Example is "Starbucks" POIs and the bmp icons. Can somebody learn me that?

TIA!