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djc

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 660WT







Post Mixture of KM/hr and mile/hr speed cameras     
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I am about to load POIs into my new Nuvi 660 and, so far, I have selected speed camera POIs for the UK and France all from this web site.

I have the UK and French POIs in different folders.

For each speed camera (UK and French) I have a bmp, gpx and mp3 file all with the same name (before the dot - extension). When downloading the gpx files each time I selected a warning distance of 200 m.

Must I make any changes to these files before uploading them to my 660, using the Gamin uploader?

Though I am very new to the Nuvi 660 and to the Garmin GPS systems (ex TomTom user!) I feel much more confident after spending several hours perusing this forum.
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johmazz2006

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 765, Garmin 3950LMT, Garmin 2455LMT, Navman40, Garmin StreetPilot 3







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Just make sure you have separate sub directories under the C:/Garmin/POI directory, and point the POI loader to Garmin/POI as it puts ALL files in directories under there, into one file called POI.gpi then uploads that to the GPS.
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djc

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 660WT







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I understand that I must load all my POIs at one time as those that are in the sat nav will be overwritten.

I also understand that I should create a directory which it is recommended is called C:/Garmin/POI with all the necessary sub directories for the usually large number of POI categories. The Garmin loader will then load all the POIs in C:\Garmin\POI directory and its sub directories.

When I load my POIs will the POIs originally loaded by Garmin on the new sat nav be overwritten if I upload new POIs or are they stored separately?

Finally (phew!) where should I store my own POIs? Due to limitations of the sat nav memory I have read that it is better to use the SD card. Do I need to use a particular directory or can i simply choose a name for the directory?

Many thanks.
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basirb

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 2579lmt







Post Re: Mixture of KM/hr and mile/hr speed cameras     
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djc wrote:
I have the UK and French POIs in different folders.


Good start.

Here is what I do:

I download all Canadian POI files to c:\gps-data-team\Canada
I save all other files (USA POIs) to to c:\gps-data-team\USA

I save CA files with POI Loader (km/hr) to my hard disk and rename the output GPI file to Canada.gpi
I restart POI Loader using my USA files (mph) and rename it's output to USA.gpi

It works well when I copy both (renamed) GPI files to my Garmin.

I found this hack explained somewhere in the Garmin forum.

Hope it helps
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djc

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 660WT







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Thanks I will give it a go - if I can find the time!
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e-uy

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 760







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I'm just going through this exercise as we speak as I'm travelling to the US and have several files in MPH which I naturally want to keep seperate to my Australian files.
Thanks for the tips. This should make life a little easier for me.
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