Welcome / open talk

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

garmin has a new webupdater:
http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=931

I need the red light camera file for Texas

I find this no windshield mount law very frustrating, especially since they allow the far more dangerous beanbag mounts.

How often do people really get tickets for this? So far I've just taken my chances. How much is the ticket, and is getting caught with one while driving considered a moving violation that affects my insurance?

Also, does the law only cover windshields, meaning could I attach the suction mount to a side window instead?

There will be a couple days over the next week when Miss poi and I will be prioritizing family activities and won't be on the site as regularly as normal.

On these particular days, I will be disabling Paypal downloads of the red light cameras file. This is just a precaution in case there were to be some problems with our connection to Paypal. I don't want anyone to get stuck with a question or issue when we're not able to be as attentive as normal.

Hi all...I'm new not only to POI, but GPS as well so sorry if my question has already been answered a million times. I have nuvi 350, and so far am loving it. My question is after loading the POI file, I get the list in custom poi's as I should, however the alerts don't seem to work. I checked to make sure they are turned on, and the distance was set correctly when they were loaded. Also the bmp for the icon...what do I do with that? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Hey JM amd Miss POI
Any idea on the number of POI's to date.

It was (what) only a month ago you reached 1 million?
Where are we at now??

http://gpsinformation.net/

has an incredible wealth of information to it. From my initial browsing of some areas, seems to be intelligent and unbiased too.

GC

Hi Everybody,
I goofed up. I never saw the page after I used Pay-pal to download my purchase. What can I do?

Jim in Houston