Spurious speed alert on Garmin 1310

andy_fy8 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 28, 2010 Posts: 8

**FIXED** - see reply
Hi,

Earlier this evening on the Blackpool Asda car park my satnav gave a 3 km/h speed alert.

The only POIs anywhere near this locality were:

1. The PGPSW Asda filling station one (file ASDA_Fuel_PGPSW.csv) and

2. A nearby Geocache, for which i created the POI file myself (file name geocache_redlight.csv - to get red light alerts).

The POI lines were, respectively,

-3.016xx,53.797xx,"Blackpool, Cherry Tree Rd","+441253831700 "

-3.0170xx,53.7986xx,"GC2HR6B Shopping Around 'A' [Small/Traditional Cache]","[clue deleted]
Updated: 2012-08-06"

The xx's just obscure decimal places as both these POIs are copyrighted data. I have also deleted the Geocache clue but that only contained letters and punctuation, no numbers.

I could point out that when I drive up Burton Road, to the north of the store, I get the alert for the Geocache, but not the speed alert. I only get the alert on the car park itself. Hence I am inclined to believe the Filling Station POI file, which I only started using a month ago, is more likely to be 'responsible'.

I use the Garmin POI creator which is set to assume metric units, My satnav is also set to metric. Hence the 3km/h alert ought to come from a 3 in the POI file name or a @3 in the file line itself. As neither of these are the case, I am at a loss to explain the 3 km/h alert.

If anyone has any ideas I'd be glad to hear them.

Thanks,
Andrew

andy_fy8 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 28, 2010 Posts: 8

Unfortunately the fault was mine...

I have my POI files in subdirectories of the input directory and in order to sort them on the satnav, prefixed them with 00-, 01- etc. The subdirectory containing filling station pois was 03-fuel.

Clearly the POI loader looks at subdirectory names too.

Kremmen · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:32 am Post subject:

Yep, that'll do it Smile

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