Nuvi 2599 test

DEANO3528 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 22, 2011 Posts: 130

Me again!
Well a few miles down the road and my thoughts on this machine...

I hate it with a passion!
Leaving out the faffing around with uploading the POI's, it has some really random ideas about routing!
I know my way around the country and it tries to take me on some really strange routes. A1120 instead of A1078 being the latest oddity. No one uses the 1120 to go to my town as it's tortuous!
More importantly, the 'Traffic' system: Driving along the A14 and for 50-odd miles it was telling me of a 15 minute delay which I guesstimated was Kettering. However nothing on the matrix signs or on the radio or my Highways England app. So despite it telling me I'd save 12 minutes I maintained my heading. Nothing! No traffic anywhere.
Except that where there was a 3 mile queue at Catthorpe, nothing to be seen on the warning screen, which if I'd known I could have avoided.
Same happened on the way back at Brampton Hut: No mention of the queue due to the crash on the roundabout under the A1.

Now the speed camera warnings... which are driving me around the bend!
Despite using Kremmen's converter, I am still getting the overspeed warnings which I set to zero.
Any help with that would be much appreciated as it nearly got thrown out the window between the M6 toll and J14 on the 6 yesterday - 4 warnings for every camera set N & S through the roadworks.

This is how I have the cameras set on the converter, does that look right?

Cheers in advance

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:14 pm Post subject:

No. The filenames are wrong and all contain numeric values. They should all have a format along the following lines "gatso_twenty.wav".
You are using the PGPSW Database Options menu to unzip the files, aren't you? Because that gives them the correct file names.
It's because they are incorrect that you are having the problem.

DEANO3528 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 22, 2011 Posts: 130

Hmm, the database download doesn't work for me. It gives the error message posted previously, net4 client pack is installed on my machine too as I checked.

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:52 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your response to my suggestion.
Have you downloaded the latest database as required for the CSV converter? If the database download doesn't work for you for whatever reason, then from where did you get the files that you obviously have got?
You need to download the correct .zip file and use the CSV converter program to unzip the files into your working folder so that they can be processed properly for POI Loader.

Kremmen · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:42 am Post subject:

M8TJT is right, that isn't right and will cause the Garmin to repeat warnings. Those filenames will certainly cause an issue. It looks like you are not using the program to unzip the data. The program, during the extract, changes the 40 to 'forty' for example.

I have recently made some changes to the converter. If you download the latest version and start again I'm sure the issues will be solved.

The latest download includes the whol shooting match including pictures and sounds and an updated help file. Read that first as it has install tips as well.
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DEANO3528 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 22, 2011 Posts: 130

Do you have a link please Kremmen, to ensure I get the correct one.

Kremmen · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:59 am Post subject:

I updated the link in the first post in the CSV Converter thread:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=91951

Once installed it should show version 2015.09.30.0010
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DEANO3528 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 22, 2011 Posts: 130

Much obliged, sir.
So judging from what M8TJT says, with the correct version it should automatically change the name of the files from digits to words with regard to speeds and then I won't get the overspeed warnings that I haven't enabled anyway.
Fingers crossed then Smile

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:37 pm Post subject:

DEANO3528 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 22, 2011 Posts: 130

Yes but only because it wouldn't unzip using the converter. I keep getting that error message. I will download the latest one and see what happens then

Kremmen · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:53 am Post subject:

I'm puzzled as to why the converter won't unzip your file. That is one function that has never failed for me.

Using the converter unzip function is key as it replaces the fikename numbers with alpha characters so 50 becomes fifty.

Without that change the remaining processing won't work properly, if at all.

What error are you getting?
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M8TJT · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:25 am Post subject:

DEANO3528 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 22, 2011 Posts: 130

I screen grabbed it, and it's around the middle of page 2 of this thread.

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:47 am Post subject:

Bloody hell. I hope that means something to kremmen. Sounds like a totally unintelligible Microsoft error message to me. The ones that give all the info concisely, but mean absolutely nothing to the average Joe.
Just grasping at straws now and whether it makes a toss difference I don't know, but are you running the prog as an administrator, or just a 'normal' user on your PC?

Kremmen · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:53 am Post subject:

Yes it does.

It means that you haven't got the Microsoft.NET4 client pack installed.

Download and install the latest version. What 'should' happen is that it will examine the PC and will produce a popup with a question about permission to download and install .NET 4 if it can't find it.

You may as well have the latest beta version. The more testing this the better:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/amwsb7uuy034brx/CSV%20to%20GPX%20Installer.zip?dl=0

Uninstall the current one first, especially as that's the old 2013 version.
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