Sat-Nav Probs.

Jacques le foot

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Hi Everyone.
I have the Vicarious book 'Camperstop 2009', and bought the downloads to put onto my Garmin Nuvi 250 Sat-nav. I bought the Aires for France, and Spain& Portugal. Downloaded to my laptop with no problem. Thought I had then uploaded them to the sat-nav o.k., but then found I had only got the France one. So uploaded the P.&S. one again, to find that I had then only go that one. It seems I can't get both on together. Does anyone know why? I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Could it be that the unit hasn't enough memory?.
We found the French one invaluable last year, but as we are off to Spain & Portugal in the new year, I'd really like that one on as well.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank You.

Jackie ;)
 
What might help a possible memory problem is to go into "recent trips" and delete everything on there.

We have had problems in the past on our Navman and Tomtom satnavs with this.

Every trip you make is kept in this area and affects the operation of the satnav. If your satnav has also been slow to acquire the satellite, then I think that this could be the reason.

Good luck.
 
You can load many different files (*.csv or *.gpx) into the Garmin together.

Put them all into a folder you can find and then start the POI Loader. When asked to select the directory where the data can be found, browse to the folder you have just created. On the next page the files will be shown sequentially at the top where it asks for the setting required. The actual question is specific for each file (I left the options blank) and changes as you progress through. Continue until you finish, when you will be congratulated.

To make sure that I hadn't erased my original POIs I changed the name of the "poi.gpi" file to "oldpoi.gpi", using Windows Explorer to explore the Garmin.

The POIs that you have entered come up in EXTRAS on thh Garmin screen rather than POIs, as I expect you realise.

I have had fun recently looking at our tracks on Google Earth by downloading them from the archive info in the Garmin. I can tell you how if interested.

Best Of Luck,

Brian
 
One option is to load one set of the POI's to the garmin via your memory card, install them to the garmin when gps switched on and asks if you want to install the poi s to the device.
Delete these from the sd card and then upload the other set to the sd card and don't install these to the device but run them from the memory card, so you are not overwriting the POI file. (will appear under custom POIs)

I run Road Tour from my memory card.

What format are the original files in - .csv ?? - if so, you could make a folder on your pc and put all the files together in that folder and then upload everything as one set of POIs, but check total file size first ! and compare to how much space is left on the garmin. - In windows explorer, with the garmin plugged in and recognised, browse to the garmin device, right click garmin then left click properties and you should see a piechart of used space and freespace.
Hope this helps. :)

OOOOOps. - looks like I've been pretty much pre-empted :)
 
When you upload POI's to Garmins (I have a Nuvi660) it over-rights/removes ALL those already in the extra's folder!!! Hence you only have one set visible at a time!

Like others have said you need to put all the POI's you have in a folder and via the Garmin POI Loader upload the WHOLE folder take a look at HOME :: GarminPOI.co.uk for MANY useful POI's.
 
Sorry if I sound stupid, but I also bought the same books, but where do I get the download material from. We are also off to Spain, Portugal and France, and have a TomTom
 
Sorry if I sound stupid, but I also bought the same books, but where do I get the download material from. We are also off to Spain, Portugal and France, and have a TomTom
the best poi's for french aires we have found is actually on TomTom Home, i checked every aire in the Vicarious All the Aires book and found literally dozens of mistakes, 1 aire co-ordinate was over 100 miles from where the actual aire is

bertie
 
Hi Bertie,

If you look in your book, there is a page towards the front that tells you about the GPS downloads, and gives the web address to go to, where you buy the downloads on-line.
Thanks to the guys on here, my problem is now sorted, and I have got both French, and Spain & Portugal Aires on the sat-nav.
The book I have got is called Camperstop 2009, rather than All The Aires, and so far we have not found any major errors..that's not to say there aren't any, we perhaps just been lucky.
When you get on to the website to buy the downloads, it will ask which make of sat-nav you need them for. It was all very straight forward.

Let me know how you get on,
Jackie :)
 
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