19 mph speed alert

colboy20 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Posts: 4

Hi. Have a Garmin 205WT and when in a 30MPH zone it frequently indicates on the alert screen an icon that says 19mph zone. I am unaware of any 19mph zones in the area I live. I trust I have posted this in the correct forum.Please advise and thanks in advance.

M8TJT · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:09 am Post subject:

Hi Colboy20.
Welcome to our forums.
Your problem is a MPH/KPH thing. (19MPH = 30KPH. ) I think it's a setting in POI loader that I believe defaults to KPH.
An expert will be along in a while, if you havn't sorted it by then.

Darren · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:10 am Post subject:

You have installed the POIs using POILoader set to 'Meters and km/h' rather than 'Feet and mph'. This is explained in the install guide.

To correct you must re-install but this time ensure you change the POILoader settings to use MPH rather than KM/H.

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M8TJT · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:29 am Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:35 am Post subject:

Why Garmin choose metric as the default I can't understand, particularly as an American company!
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M8TJT · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:50 am Post subject:

Perhaps it's because more of the world's population use metric rather than Imperial. Very Happy

But, given that, I'm surprised that the Americans bow to common useage. Confused

colboy20 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Posts: 4

Hi again

Thank you for your advice but the POI loader is set to feet and mph when I load the Garmin and it frequently warns 19mph zone.

I imagine if I had inadvertantly loaded the metric version it could not have said '19MPH'.

Any more advice please.

Darren · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject:

colboy20 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Posts: 4

Yes to all your questions. POI loaded feet and mph and using uk map.

I have out on the same route as yesterday with the reinstalled poi and yes it says 19 mph zone.

I will try again tomorrow and let you know the result.

Thank you
Colin

MaFt · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 8:30 am Post subject:

have you installed the POIs to the device? sounds like the existing ones haven't been overwritten...

run poi loader and select the option to remove all pois.

take it for a drive and confirm you get NO warnings.

THEN try a reinstall of the POIs

MaFt

Daggers · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 9:19 am Post subject:

This is a regular question that comes up over and over again. The answer is ALWAYS related to the mph/kph issue. I recommend that you look a little bit closer at how you have installed the cameras.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:41 am Post subject:

Also check the garmin/poi folder on the unit. You should have ONE file called POI.GPI.

Delete any files you have in that folder (or MOVE them to your PC) and reload the database.

JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 2:34 pm Post subject:

Paul,
Could the Garmin hidden file/recycle bin thingy be in play here?
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colboy20 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Posts: 4

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject:

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