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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ironbutcher_x" data-source="post: 8037347" data-attributes="member: 213076">hey dude, many thanks... as for your questions, am not sure what zip file you used and what target distances uve set but, for me, its set at 150m. ive also started posting "only" Gpi files for future posts of gps, as that simplifies the phone upload hell of a lot. no more messing with POI Loader, setting proximity alerts nothing, just copy the single "Poi.Gpi" over to memory card/garmin/POI/ and ur set.the problem ur facing is u see the turn left ahead before u arrive at that bend is, coz, u havnt turned on "turn preview", but, sometimes, with some phones when u enable it, it does crash or lock the phone up, specifically the Nokia 5800 has this problem irrespective of firmware update. so, venture at ur own perile there. as for the 'beeps', well, ur hearing the beeps coz proximity alerts are configured correctly, if u dont near any beep, then u should worry... lol. and yes, it does get annoying at times, but, since i couldnt overlay the poi data on the map, i had to work around it, and i chose the proximity alert method, it serves 2 useful purposes, atleast for me, keeps the map clean and readable, and red pop up window only appears when ur near a marked POI. and ur concentrating on the road and not looking at the device while driving which is the worst u can do.the file named town names has errors, i wont lie to u there, and am working on it as we speak but, i also mark new stuff, so the completion of town names is slow. the reason why i incorporated the "town names" section is to make the map somewhat usable with no data as whats shown right now. but, as time went by, i kept on adding more and more poi in the form of hotels/petrol sheds etc. so, the town names section serves a useful purpose. also, not sure, if ur aware of this, but, say ur in a town or a place and u want to see whats closest to u, hotels/petrol sheds etc, just navigate into "custom poi" and u can either view everything in 1 page or by theme - myown1, petrol sheds, town names etc. u will see, respective poi closest to ur current gps location right at the top and progressively increasing with distance as u move down the list. so, u have a idea, ok, i have this and this ahead of me, now, the interesting thing bout this is, so, u see whats ahead, and u can select if u want to go to this place by clicking it.. and it will then, route u to that spot. thats the true potential behind the Custom POI section, which i didnt even realise until i started using that menu....sorry, for not havin more petrol sheds in trinco, as when i went there, i marked about 100 petrol sheds etc, but all went puff due to a phone crash. and i was not that good with the garmin software back then. now, ive perfected it, as i had 3yrs of usage experience with it. when i do go that way, i do mark new poi and i always post it all on elakiri for u guys to use... tissa has been completely mapped, as of, july 2010, every square inch of it.. ill be posting all that next week when i sort and verify the data... btw, start using garmin mobile xt V 5.00.50 instead of V.5.00.60, as that has some problems. i too, went back to earlier version as of last night...</blockquote>

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