Welcome / open talk

Hi. Thanks for creating this place. I found it because I just got a Nuvi 360 and wanted to find out about POIs. I found much, much more than that here.

Your discussion threads are wonderful. Much needed. And much appreciated. I had some specific Garmin questions and posted in that forum, after reading many previous posts. Reading those posts made finding you so worthwhile.

Again, great great job. Great resource.

I just bought a GPS unit and I am glad to have found this web site. I hope to contribute as much info for the Maryland area as I can. any suggestions please reply.

Just wanted to say hi, and thanks to all of you who've assembled some really great POI files here.

I do have a couple of questions that are probably really easy to answer, so thanks for any help you send my way:

1. Once loaded, will custom POI's show on a map that is displaying a route--for example, if I'm going from home to a client's place, will I be able to visually see the closest Wal-Mart on the map, or do I have to search? I'm pretty sure favorites show up on the route map, right?

I just used the custom POI loader for Mac book from person on this site.

I found POI's for Philadelphia - near me - Then I did the conversions and placed them in my POI folder in the nuvi. (I did this on my Mac) It did work, as they then showed up on my Nuvi.

I later discovered the file has coordinates, with nothing else.

I want to delete them from my Nuvi. I picked the folder up from my connected Nuvi on my Mac and put it in the trash. This was done while connected to my Mac Book.

Does a POI file always have 4 columns? I have a dataset of 2300+ waterfalls in the USA I would like to contribute but I only have three columns of data lat,lon,name. I guess if 4 columns are required the fourth column could be country. I don't currently own a GPS unit so I am interested in advice because I would like to get one soon.

When the new maps are out for the garmin's sometime later this year will downloading them and updating them to your unit also update the POI's that are factory set in the unit as well? like for instance any new Wal-Mart stores that were built since the past year will they now be in your unit after install? Thanks

DizzyFox

IM a truck driver and i'm trying to find a POI file with all the Weigh Stations along US highways and interstates. I have a garmin nuvi 660 and if it beeps just before you get to one it could save you a lot of money by preventing you from passing one by mistake. it does happen.

Well, getting ready for the "New Year grand road trip", so won't be on the forums much. Maybe once or twice during the week over the next several weeks. Am going to be doing some serious testing though with my Mio.

Leaving Tuesday for Dallas, then back, then off to NYC, then over to Chicago, down to Indianapolis, back to home, then over to Atlanta, then down to Tallahassee, then Orlando, Jacksonville, then back to home.

Any thoughts on what you'd like to see in your logo? I do quite a bit of that in playing around with web sites, but would need some input on what you want to see.

hello I am new to this web sight. I am trying to learn about this stuff

Hi All-Brand new to the Nuvi 350. So far I'm blown away....find myself driving around looking to screw it up, but can't. My only complaint is the alphabet keyboard. Is there a way to change it to a qwerty. THANKS

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The last couple weeks have been busy at POI Factory. The pace has really picked up since Christmas. I think a lot of people received GPS gear over the holidays and are finding their way to the POI Factory. It's nice to see that many are sticking around and becoming regular contributors.

Behind the scenes this week, Miss poi and I have been catching up on maintenance after taking a little time away over the holidays. I just finished some programming for the POI Database tool so that Miss poi can use it to update the Red Light Camera file. The tool now checks for possible duplicates (nearby POI) as you enter or update a location. Robert660 and GC0110 have also been actively using the tool as part of the beta test we started in December. It still needs a little work before it's ready to roll out to everyone on the site.

mreg --

I received your note via the contact form today, and I've sent a response via email.

(An email I tried to send you a couple weeks ago was returned undeliverable, so I just want to make sure this new message arrives.)

JM

Hello,
I just installed a nav unit into my xc90 volvo. Starting to get use to it. Any pointer on using GPS and how to be safe?

Since I came across this forum, I have been addicted to creating POI's that are useful to me and will aid me in my vocational and recreational pursuits. I have downloaded a few that are extremely helpful from this site and also I have created several POI files with my Client Locations, Family and Friends Locations, and three that I have shared here for my fellow Georgians, Georgia Wineries, Post Offices, and State Parks. I expect that this new obsession will continue for some time.

Hi everyone. Thanks for supporting such a great fourm. Does anyone know how the Garmin C330 calculates the displayed arrival time? Does it consider posted speed limits or does it use average drive speed. Is it smart enough to know that freeway driving will be faster than rual road driving? Any insight would be great.

I downloaded google earth and all that shows up is a black screen. Did it not download all the way???

Mark

Does anybody know where much of this data comes from?

It says that many of these files are updated once or twice a year from "an outside source." Some have tens or hundreds of thousands of points, what outside source / company is doing all this work?

I received a note asking how to include an image in a post. Right now it's a manual process, but I'd be happy to attach pictures as needed.

Here's an example in one of Skip's earlier posts:

example of post with pictures

Just send me a note via the contact form, and I'll give you an email address to use for sending the picture.

johnf -- I tried replying to your message with an email address, but my message was returned as undeliverable. Can you check the address in your profile?