MikeandCarolyn
Free Member
Until today I had assumed that all Sat Navs used Custom POI's in the same way.
On my Navman's I would get an 'Alert' within 1k of an Aire or any other Custom POI and I found that a really usefull feature.
However,my Navman 'died' on way to Dover last Sept and I replaced it with a Garmin Nuvi 1490 and used that on last trip with no Custom POI's.
I have just loaded 'LPG in Spain' as Custom POI's and was surprised to find that there was no facilty to set the 'Alert' distance-I rang Garmin to ask about this and was told that you cannot have 'Alerts' on Custom POI's,they are just a list of places that you put on there yourself and you have to scroll through to the one you want and 'click' on it.
Do other Sat Navs have 'Alerts' for Custom POI's,or is it only Navman ?
In France I would often not care which Aire we stayed on or where we got LPG I would just drive in direction we wanted to go and when an LPG alert came up I would go to that garage,similarly in early afternoon we would often drive until an Aire alert came up and then go there.
Now it seems I have to actually know where I want go What a drag
Mike
On my Navman's I would get an 'Alert' within 1k of an Aire or any other Custom POI and I found that a really usefull feature.
However,my Navman 'died' on way to Dover last Sept and I replaced it with a Garmin Nuvi 1490 and used that on last trip with no Custom POI's.
I have just loaded 'LPG in Spain' as Custom POI's and was surprised to find that there was no facilty to set the 'Alert' distance-I rang Garmin to ask about this and was told that you cannot have 'Alerts' on Custom POI's,they are just a list of places that you put on there yourself and you have to scroll through to the one you want and 'click' on it.
Do other Sat Navs have 'Alerts' for Custom POI's,or is it only Navman ?
In France I would often not care which Aire we stayed on or where we got LPG I would just drive in direction we wanted to go and when an LPG alert came up I would go to that garage,similarly in early afternoon we would often drive until an Aire alert came up and then go there.
Now it seems I have to actually know where I want go What a drag
Mike