Welcome / open talk

I just got the C530. I have been looking for the school zone and speed zones POI's. No idea how any of this works. So far I really like the 530. Can you change the voice on the 530???

Thanks
Mark

Being a Newbie, I do not know the terms yet, somplease bear with me.

When I look in my Garmin C530, I find listings for many POI's. Like Best Buy or Home Depot. So, if I load a Home Depot POI file, will I get duplicate POI's?

Thanks!

Hello,

Newbie here...

So, this may be another dumb question...

I was recently in Japan and my rental car had an Integrated GPS. I noticed that as I was driving along, there were many PIO icons on the display, like 7-Elevens, Gas Stations, etc.

This is a feature that I assumed was included with all automotive GPS's. I would LOVE it if I could enable my Garmin C530 to do this.

From what I have read on this site, so far, my understanding of PIO's is that you can only select them as a destination (Extras). I would really like to have them constantly displayed as icons. So, when I am traveling and I need a gas sation or restuarant, I can just look at my display to see if one is coming up.

new to the site, just wanted to say hi and introduce meself Just got my TomTom go 700 for Christmas and wanted to find a decently active community where they know about GPS stuff and so here I am, hope to stick around for a while

does garmin use the same maps for the 500-300 series as it does for the nuvi series.

How do you change username?

What are the Badges Icons for and what do each of them mean?
Like for instance what is up with the Atari Logo Icon?

("Badges, Badges? we don't need no stinkin Badges")

I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas. I am at the beginning of my journey on purchasing a Gps system. With so many ads out there, I was wondering if so one could point me in a direction that would not empty my pockets. Considering that this would be my first Gps for my vehicle. I did a little research on TomTom one and Garmin 360 but still not sure, thanks for the help...

First GPS, Garmin Zumo. Nice site you all have here, so I joined hoping to learn a thing or two. Hope stupid questions are tolerated (after a search of course). ;o)

With the new C550, can anyone suggest some links they have found useful?

This week we are giving the trophy to Jassoma for his great work building poi files over the last week.
Thanks for all your hard work
Miss Poi

New active member for this week are,
Skip
c19152
mkahn
orbital
carlos alvarenga
rigel
pdshankland

Last weeks active members were:
tmk
holydoc
simon slavin
jeepin04
robert660
robinh
sanger
royal2000h
christinme7890

I received the Garmin nuvii 660 as a Christmas gift. Any tricks and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Hey there! I'm RevTim and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Just got a Garmin Nuvi 350 for Christmas. I look forward to learning all about POI's and how to use it to it's fullest potential.

Hi, pretty new guy here. I donloaded the Schools POI and saved it with file name speed_25. Started to drive around town and the speed alerts went off in both my towns schools. I might have to add more if I find them but this has helped me become a safer driver.

Just bought a JVC GPS and was wondering if any others out there? So far I really like the unit other than not being able to down load movies on the free space of the HDD!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

If you get bored, come visit my Mio site at:
Http://www.hugginsnet.com/ilovemymio/index.html

I thought a good forum topic (and maybe a good candidate for a sticky post) would be links to sites and information for the members.

I like this informative article about the maps that each system uses -
http://www.gpsmagazine.com/2006/07/navteq_vs_teleatlas_which...

Greetings All,
I am new to this site and to the GPS world. However I travel extensively across the USA.

I hope to post a POI file once I figure it out. I have an excel sheet of all the Pilot Truck stops in the USA.

Comments are welcome.

Joe

Garmin 340. I know what GPS is, but what is WAAS/EGNOS? When would it be used? Location btw is Columbus, OH. thanks

I noticed there are many POI files (restaurants, schools etc.) for various areas of the US. Are these supposed to be locations that are not already on the GPs unit? I just got a c530 and I'm very new to this.

Thanks