Nuvi 250 European Maps - POI Limit (Xmas help please!)

[petejonlincoln]

Hi, I (well the wife) has been given a second hand Nuvi 250 for Xmas. I already have a 7xx series which I have no problems loading custom POI/Speed cam DB on.

However, the Nuvi 250 seems to have a limit on the number of POI's it can store/display. I loaded the speed cam DB via POI loader (it didnt error and informed of the 11k+ POIs loaded) - but the unit only seems to display (within the extras/POI area) a few pages of POI's

I then cleared unit, loaded JUST National Trust POI's and they seem to be showing on the unit/map - then loaded the speedcam DB again, and the National Trust icons are missing - so Im thinking that there must be a limit?

I googled this and found various posts saying there is a 500 POI limit, others say no limit...

Does anyone have a Nuvi 250 and has managed to load all of the speed cam DB + more POI's??

PS, unit is up to date, using 2010 maps (on seperate SD card) - POI's are all loaded to the main unit (but didnt seem to make a different if I loaded to card?)

Thanks

[Andy_P]

I'm no Garmin expert, but I seem to remember seeing warnings on this site about a POI category limit on some nuvis.

however after a quick look round, I can't see them in the prominent places I thought they would be, so maybe it was fixed with a software update and PGPSW felt able to remove the warnings. (I could be dreaming all this!)

Hopefully someone with more Garmin experience will be along soon, but are you sure the nuvi's software is upto date?

[Andy_P]

UPDATE... found it!

On the PGPSW free POI download page HERE it says:

[PaulB2005]

With many units the result of loading too many POIs will be the icons appear as grey blobs instead of the icons.

You need to be a bit more specific as to what is or is not appearing where. Is it in the list of Custom POIs or on the map? Also as Andy mentions how many poi (CSV) files are you loading? Finally are you loading the speed cams and the POIs at the same time?

Also note the custom poi lists only show the closest 50 POIs to your location so some lists may appear short.

Without a more detailed description of the problem its hard to comment.

[petejonlincoln]

Ill look into the grey blob suggestion.

Nuvi 250 is up to date, latest firmware, POI loader gave no errors and unit does boot OK - Ill feedback info later

Thanks

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