POI display on an Oregon 300

ephoras · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject: POI display on an Oregon 300

Over a year ago I was supposed to be helping in the running of the second Classic Car Rally in Iceland. In order to help my positioning I bought a Garmin Oregon 300 and City Navigator Europe NT, the latter having difficult to find full mapping of Iceland. Due to a volcano helping to destroy part of the route, the rally was postponed.

Since then the Oregon has sat untouched in a box until recently when I realized that you could add custom POI's to the Oregon series ie. the PGPSW Speed Cameras and other POI's. I have added these to my Oregon and am happy they have loaded on to the device with detection distances set on the camera POI's.

My problem is the settings on my Oregon to actually display the cameras when I'm near one. I'm sure the device should be able to do this, but cannot find any references to the settings.
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Garmin DriveSmart 50 LMT-D
Previously DriveSmart 50, Nuvi 3790T, Nuvi 3760,
Oregon 300

Darren · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject:

The Oregon is IIRC a POILoader device? If so, the alerts should be enabled in Prximity Alerts. See the install guide here.
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Darren Griffin

ephoras · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks Darren, I'd already been through this, but nothing was displayed whilst going through actual 60 mph GATSO sites, so I think it's the Oregon settings I have which are wrong or what I'm uploading?
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Garmin DriveSmart 50 LMT-D
Previously DriveSmart 50, Nuvi 3790T, Nuvi 3760,
Oregon 300

Darren · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:33 pm Post subject:

sussamb · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:26 am Post subject:

That's not quite true. You get alerted regardless as a box pops up warning you of cameras ahead but then get a tone should you be over the speed limit for the camera. Not sure if you'd get the tone on the Oregon (?) but should certainly see the visual pop ups.

ephoras · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:35 am Post subject:

Ah, pop ups? Then my settings are wrong, nothing pops at all. Turn by turn directions are prompted by a beep before the junction and a double beep at the junction but nothing other than the map appears on the screen.
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Garmin DriveSmart 50 LMT-D
Previously DriveSmart 50, Nuvi 3790T, Nuvi 3760,
Oregon 300

ephoras · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:50 pm Post subject:

Solved the problem, myself.

Because I had Europe NT enabled, I disabled all other maps. Enabled the Base Map and the PGPSW Camera Warnings appear. Great! Now need to decide whether I can cope with the beeps for junctions instead of spoken instructions.
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Garmin DriveSmart 50 LMT-D
Previously DriveSmart 50, Nuvi 3790T, Nuvi 3760,
Oregon 300

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