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Hi Guys. I recently had to go up to George for a funeral. Part of the proceedings was to go and view the body at the funeral home. I updated my Nuvi to CNSA2016.10 before leaving Cape Town. I don't know George that well so I put in the address of the funeral home (28 C.J. Langenhoven Road) and off w...

LOL guys! So if I'm comfortable doing things manually, like I've always done, then I don't really need this program? I like the idea of being able to change the grace limits as that suits my driving strategy. There's no grace at the moment and the unit starts to bong as soon as I go even 1km/h over ...

What does the Program from Tiaan Strauss allow you to do? Is it to create your own POI files?

It sounds interesting and I might download it and play around with it.

Hi Jan. Yes it loaded about 6500 files and the gpi file size is 676kB. That sounds about right then hey? I'll keep my 42 in cruise mode, as I usually do and notify you if anything is amiss. The fixed 60k camera that I mentioned in an earlier post has been there about two years already. Maybe there a...

Successfully transferred the POI data to my 42. I had a look at the gpx files in Mapsource and noted that there is a fixed 60km/h camera a few kays from my house that is not listed there. I'll drive past there today and get the waypoint for you and then submit the data (after reading the guidelines,...

Just discovered that my old version of POI Loader doesn't like the new file format. That was version 253. That's why I kept getting error messages. I downloaded the latest version (273) from the Garmin website and presto! Just successfully loaded all the latest POIs onto my old Nuvi 300. I can see t...

Just done another experiment: Loaded the old data from 2012 which results in a 'poi.gpi' file in the 'poi' folder on my Nuvi. There are about 4500 poi's in that file and the gpi file size is 571kB. If I then use POI Loader to delete the POI files on the Nuvi, the file is replaced with an empty file ...

Something's wrong here guys. I tried loading the POIs the 'old' way, using the same directory structure that I used to and I'm getting error messages telling me that the gpx data files are invalid. If I delete all the POIs and then reload the old ones from 2012, it loads them happily with no error m...

Okay thanks Jan I'll play with it over the weekend and see how it goes. I used the 42 on my commute to work this morning. It behaves somewhat differently to my old unit. Seems to have many new features, most of them I like, but the thing was driving me crazy with the bongs for speeding! It obviously...

Thanks guys. Now it's starting to make sense and I'm finally getting somewhere. I'll read the guide to make sure I get all the files in the right places. Not too worried about wav or mp3 at this stage, quite happy with the bong sound as that's what I'm used to. I have the old poi loader still on my ...