Camera icons on a nuvi 310

fender1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 4

Hi
I've just joined and admit I'm a novice!
I have successfully loaded the latest database with Garmin POILoader to my nuvi however when I look at the map onscreen, all cameras are shown as a grey dot, not the bmp camera icons that I also downloaded too. The POI alerts are on and warn me of an upcoming camera so is there something else I have missed?
Thanks
Fender1

PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject:

OK. Which database did you install - Single File, Consolidated or Speed Zoned?

Did you change anything at all?

fender1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 4

Hi, thanks for the swift response. Here is some more info...
I have downloaded the speed zoned individual camera file latest version ended cams-vXXX. I then extracted the csv's and bmp's to a POI folder on the PC, combined with the other POI's from the site (restaurants etc). I then used POIloader which successfully put approx 150k files to the nuvi without changing any files.
I only used the original bmp's from the zoned download 22x22 pixels. The nuvi is bang up to date with software from Garmin on version 4.2 and I have used two different releases from the last couple of weeks with exactly the same results.
Hope that helps!

filename edited by MaFt

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject:

I notice you have added "150k files ". Can you confirm all the other POIs show up OK? What if you load the Speed Camera Database on it's own?

fender1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 4

Now we're getting somewhere!
The other POI's do appear under the CustomPOI's folder with the cameras when all files are loaded. However when I load the cameras only, the icons now appear on the map.
So is there a memory limit on number of files or file size on the nuvi that is causing this issue, so maybe should I add all POI's to an SD card maybe?
Thanks

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:11 am Post subject:

IIRC there was a limit with the 310 units which was fixed by one of the latest firmwares. However it looks like there might still be a limit but the unit just doesn't lock up any more...

mikealder · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

The limit was 257 custom POI categories and it didn't matter where the POI files were stored, this used to lock up the devices - Mike

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:23 am Post subject:

That's it - was looking in the wrong place. Just remembered it's on the POI download page.

MaFt · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:43 am Post subject:

when they 'almost' admitted their error they claimed it was down to the number of bitmap files as opposed to csv files - you could always try removing some bitmaps from other poi sets and see if that affects the speed camera ones?

MaFt

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