2598 - some questions.

inspiredron · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:52 pm Post subject: 2598 - some questions.

I have seen somewhere two things about the 2500 series and POI's
a) That Custom POI's now have to be on the unit and not on a supplemental card.
b) That you cannot add a symbol to a POI?

I cannot believe either of these. POI loader has always had the option on my 760 of loading to unit or card and no symbol implies the speedcams are not marked on the map.

I also understand that these units do not support mp3 files. Does that mean that speed alerts need wav files and are ogg files supported?

I also believe that the TTS files have changed to TTS3 files. Is there a customisation program (TTS voice editor) that works with TTS3 files?

Kremmen · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 3:36 pm Post subject:

I've got a 2597 and my POI's have associated symbols.

Not tried them on a card though. I just load them straight onto the device.
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sussamb · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:09 pm Post subject:

POIs work from the card too and do have symbols associated with them. No mp3 player though but there are ways to have voice files with speed cameras, not exactly sure how as I never bother.

No voice editor as far as I know for TTS3 voices.

Kremmen · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 5:33 am Post subject:

I can guess that a POI with no 'speed' in the filename and an associated identically named wav file will work OK via POILoader
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inspiredron · Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 5:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the hints re POI's. Now I have a further problem which does nor seem to be covered in the manual nor, as far as I can see, on this site.

I have recently downloaded ACSI Camping Card POI's direct from the ACSI site. It puts a gpx file directly onto the main Garmin memory. However, they showed up in Custom POI's as expected.
When I downloaded Aires coordinates that gave me a gpx file which I manually copied into a gpx folder on my microSD card. BIG MISTAKE! As soon as I switched on the Garmin normally it did the trick of assuming that they were favourites and needed to be absorbed into current.gpx!

I removed the gpx file and also deleted current.gpx, replacing it with my backup. The Aires were still there and the only way that I found to get rid of them was a master reset - switch off with a LONG press on the power button and then switch on keeping finger on bottom right of screen for about 20 seconds. Oddly that did not give me a full reset of favourites but took me back to the favourites that I had loaded when the machine was new! Maybe I should have ensured that the unit was TOTALLY off before or maybe after I replaced current.gpx with my previuos file.

However this raises two questions:

1: Where do I put a gpx file on the card so that it shows up in Custom POPI's and not Favourites?

2: How do I delete a Favourite? I tried following the manual instruction - Where To? - Saved - Menu symbol - Delete Saved Places -
but failed at the first hurdle by not finding "Saved" after "Where To".

Any ideas gratefully received!

Obviously I can solve the gpx file problem by using POI loader from csv files - or maybe I should have copied the Aires in a gpi format instead of gpx - both were available. Doh! Rolling Eyes

EDIT: WIERD - I have just played about again and gone into favourites - this time I have found the option to edit or delete any one or all but NOT selecetd favourites as implied by the manual. I am sure that was not available by one of the "favourites" that had got in form Aires.gpx!

sussamb · Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 6:19 pm Post subject:

gpx files in the GPX folder will be merged into favourites, POIs should be in .gpi format and placed in the POI folder.

Deleteing favourites ... You should be able to select Where To then Favourites. Now hit the 3 bar icon top left. You should get the option to Delete Favourites. Tap it. Now you can 'Select All' or tick the favourites you wish to delete.

Note in the US Favourites are called Saved Places, hence the confusion in the manual.

Also note replacing/deleteing current.gpx does nothing. It is simply a one way copy of what the nuvi has stored in inaccessible memory. You can edit/delete it as much as you want, it won't change a thing. You can only edit/delete favourites through the nuvi itself.

inspiredron · Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 7:44 pm Post subject:

PhilHornby · Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 10:49 pm Post subject:

inspiredron · Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:37 pm Post subject:

Kremmen · Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 1:19 pm Post subject:

If you have a look in the Garmin dedicated area here WalkerX and I developed a program to convert the PGPSW CSV files to GPX. The app also allows some further fine tuning.
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inspiredron · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:22 pm Post subject:

An interesting discovery.
i am now in Spain hsving successfully negotiated France and some interesting motorway junctions around Madrid where lane guidance was incredibly useful. No problems with direction information being given late - to me it is a very good system which provides timely information exactly when I neec it.
HOWEVER! In my hurry just before our departure I installed speed camera POI's from another sjte where I have long tefm access and because there were more than 32 categories I divided the into two directories Sppeedcams an Speedcams2. I had forgotten that the use of the "2" causds Garmin go interpret the speedcams as 2kph cameras and give alerts accordingly. What is unexpected is that the "2" also overrides the map generated speed limit and appears as a 2mph speed limit on the screen. It also causes a speed alert at 2mph as well as the speed cameda bong.
Anyone else noticed this?

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