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05/02/2008 at 8:11 pm #1888312
@EnergySaver wrote:
@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:
So I have the POI loader figured out. But now on the Nuvi 350 they don’t show up in the 3-D view, and I have to zoom way in on the map view to see them. I also don’t see the name of them when I am zoomed in far enough. Is there a way to change this?
Unfortunately that’s the way it works … you only see the ONE you are ACTIVELY traveling to, when in the 3D View, basically it appears as a dot (unless you setup another symbol) at the end of your route … in the map view you only see what shows on your screen when zoomed in real far (I believe it’s 200 or 300 foot scale on my unit).
It works great for selecting a cache you want to drive to from the list … but is of basically no use if you just want to see symbols representing caches, along side the road, as you drive near them. The only/best way to just see what caches are nearby as you drive, is to NOT have a map screen up, but have the POI selector up, then the nearest caches will appear with pointer arrows and distances as a list … kinda fun watching the arrows switch directions as you go (but keep your eyes on the road).
I guess that is what I am going to have to live with. I was up late reading forums and FAQ’s on the garmin site looking for anything that would send me in the right direction on this topic.
I guess I will have to adapt to that or start looking for yet another GPS? Like I would get away with that.
05/02/2008 at 8:49 pm #1888313Actually I found caching with my Nuvi 650 plus my old hand-held GPSr great. I let the Nuvi tell me where to park .. then use the “Find Nearest” on the handheld to find the same cache and off I go.
Personally, I don’t see a reason to get the “latest, greatest” handheld any more … as the Nuvi covers the road trip in style, and my 5 year old handheld just needs and arrow to point me in the right direction.
05/02/2008 at 10:05 pm #1888314I was just kidding with the look for a new GPS comment. As I have a fine handheld and now a Nuvi to help get me there. I was just hoping that I could see the waypoints on the nuvi like I do on the GPSr while in route to the cache.
05/02/2008 at 10:39 pm #1888315Where does a guy get the cache type icons that can be used in the POI’s
05/03/2008 at 5:31 am #1888316That would be HERE.
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