Customising POIs on a Nuvi

BigPerk · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:17 am Post subject:

AND, when you have got the text you want, CLICK THE QUOTE BUTTON AGAIN!!
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(Navigon 70 Live, Nuvi 360)

maxdot · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 11, 2011 Posts: 57

Do NOT use the Post Reply button at the bottom of the Topic.[/quote][quote][/quote]
Thank you

maxdot · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 11, 2011 Posts: 57

Well I don't seem to have quite got that sorted but they've just delivered the unit (and I only ordered it yesterday afternoon!) so I've got more important things to worry about. Hope I do better with the Nuvi than the Quote Button
Max

BigPerk · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:04 pm Post subject:

OOPS - sorry, wasn't concentrating! I use the quote button IN the 'Post a Reply' box NOT the one mentioned by Oldboy. Probably his way is best if it's just one quote, whereas the alternative is better if you want to include several quotes.

Hope that's as clear

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:51 pm Post subject:

maxdot · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 11, 2011 Posts: 57

In other words on Garmin there is no way to have warnings for speed cameras etc but otherwise silence?

Is it possible to delete a post entirely if, for example, you have the misfortune to post the same message twice by a mistake?

(Answer - No, but a mod. can do it for you)

maxdot · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 11, 2011 Posts: 57

Hi
Beginning to explore my 3790T and my heart beat faster when I read in the Help pages on the machine of being able to create Categories in Favourites and even given them different symbols. That could be an easyish answer to my problem of wanting to create my own POIs directly on the machine.The path is meant to be Where to: Favourites:Choose which Category you want to explore: Choose which Favourite among those listed under that Category. At least that was how I thought it was going to work. I've created 5 Favourites in 2 Categories but when I tap Favourites I only get the complete list of Favourites I've made with no sign that they are divided into 2 different categories. Anyone got any ideas? On the Garmin site under FAQ there is something relating to the 700 series would this not be applicable to the 3790?
https://buy.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId={9f6613c0-d5dd-11df-c826-000000000000}

BigPerk · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:43 am Post subject:

maxdot · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 11, 2011 Posts: 57

On the map, the difference of icon is more or less obvious, but on the screen when I open Favourites there is just a list of Favourites I have created with the names I have given them, their distance away from my present position and what direction they lie in (N, S, E, W). There are no icons and no list of Categories [/quote]

maxdot · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 11, 2011 Posts: 57

An exhaustive search through Garmin's FAQs reveals that Categories of Favourites are only visible when you have more than 12 Favourites. So that problem is solved and so, to a certain extent, is the problem of Customised POIs since I can enter them as categorised Favourites. The only disadvantage of that being that I won't get warnings when I get close to them unlike imported POIs. I wish you could have POIs popping up on the map if you wanted them - one of the penalties of having so many more on Garmin than TT (my impression) I suppose.

A separate query. Does the Speed Camera download at £19.99 cover all the 40 countries covered?
Max

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:58 pm Post subject:

It covers the entire World where possible.

BigPerk · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject:

dales · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:42 pm Post subject:

On my nuvi255 I can turn off the Directions, whilst leaving the camera warnings audible. To do this, I used Ash10 Voice Utility (now GarTool). I backed up the voice files before starting out.

Firstly, for practice, I doctored the English-British voice file, to substitute 1 second of silence for the annoying "Recalculating". That stopped it saying that!

Encouraged, I doctored the English-American voice file, to substitute 1 second of silence for all of the direction instructions (apart from useful warnings like "external power lost" or "lost satellite reception"). For the ones I retained, I used the English versions rather than the American ones.

Now I simply have to change the Voice Language (in Tools...Settings).
American-English gives me Camera warnings but no Directions, and British-English gives me both.

Dales
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maxdot · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 11, 2011 Posts: 57

Hi Dales
You say you 'substitute 1 second of silence for the annoying "Recalculating"'
I've got as far as backing up the voice folder and extracting the English-British one. But having discovered that the offending 'Recalculating' file is number 77, how do I convert it into 1 second of silence? Just delete it?
If so, then to make the English-American totally mute, do I just delete all the files within it?
Thanks for the clarification
Max

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:18 pm Post subject:

Butting in here....

Deleting the files would probably cause an error.
I would think you need to replace the file with another one containing actual silence of the right length.

"Silent" files are easy to make in a program like Audacity or Audition, or to get you started, here are some I made earlier...

(right click and "save as...")

Silent_1sec_16bit_Mono44.wav

Silent_1sec_16bit_stereo44.wav

Silent_1sec_Mono44.mp3

Silent_1sec_Stereo44.mp3

Silent_1sec_Mono44.ogg

(I haven't looked back enough to see whether you need .mp3 or .wav format files, but one of them should do for your purposes).

(Edited to add mono and stereo versions (I think some Garmins are unable to use Mono files))

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