+CapeDoc Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 (edited) Do you own a Garmin Nuvi? Not sure how to get caches onto the Nuvi? I bumped into this link elsewhere in the forums and thought fellow South Africans may appreciate it. To enter the tutorial click Here Edited June 4, 2008 by cdlh Quote Link to comment
+LeonW Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Thanks ! I learned a thing or three... Quote Link to comment
+Cape_Guy Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I own a NUVI and do caching with it ... doing most of the things the link recommends/discusses. The only problem with a NUVI is high graphics sooo ... LOW BATTERY LIFE! If not used on the cradle I get 1.5 hours max ... Quote Link to comment
+batsgonemad and his squirrel Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 So now does anybody know how to delete the caches from the nuvi, it says to dleate them as you would any other file but mine do not does anybody else have that problem. Quote Link to comment
+Cape_Guy Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 (edited) batsgonemad and his squirrel ... You need to know how to load POI's onto your NUVI. You delete the same way as you would do for POI's. A quick rundown ... Create a folder on your PC where you keep all your POI's and tourguides IMPORTANT ... LOAD ALL YOUR POI DATA 1st ONTO YOUR SD CARD! You use the PoiLoader for this You also use PoiLoader to remove these files from your NUVI (SD card and GPSr)! FILES ONLY TO BE IN GPX FORMAT!! What this means is that every time you want to update your POI's you delete all 1st and load all together again ... Personal/Custom POI's, Road safety Data, Tourguides, etc ... IT takes about a minute or two to delete and upload. To prepare your files takes longer ... Garmap's SA website has excellent "How To" links as well as their forum ... Hope this help ... Welcome to e-mail me should you get stuck ... Have fun! Edited June 7, 2008 by Cape_Guy Quote Link to comment
+Cape_Guy Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 This is nice if you go on an extended trip or holiday otherwise I only load the caches I plan for the day (10 to 20) as a gpx file under my Geocaching header and load a route (distance optimised). With caches for the day I don't create a tourguide with all the whistles and bells and only load them as a normal custom POI file ... Happy Hunting! Quote Link to comment
+GlobalRat Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I recently tried out the associated macro listed at the top of the thread on my Nuvi. Worked brilliantly, or so I thought. I noticed that certain Road Safety data alerts were not working. It seemed to only affect mobile cameras. Strangely enough the mobile camera POI is in the GPS with it's proximity circle yet the alert isn't triggered. I did receive some weird error when the POI Loader executed on a Vista platform. I subsequently reloaded just the road safety data on an XP machine and they all work fine again. Thought it may have had something to do with Vista and hadn't bothered to try it again. On Sunday Warthog had loaded the caches and road safety data on his Nuvi using a XP machine. On Sunday when we went caching we noticed the same anomaly where certain alerts were not triggered. We had my 60csx on as well and it was squealing alerts while the nuvi remained quiet. It seemed to only affect mobile camera alerts but could not be sure. Has anyone else come across this and if so what causes it? Quote Link to comment
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