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Posted by LightRain on August 4, 2010, 11:52 am


I have a nuvi 250 that came with 2008 maps installed; this spring I
bought a 2011 map on an SD card and chose it as the map source to use
in one of the screens, I can't remeber now which one - it was hard to
find. Anyhoo, when I search for POI's I quite ofter see many
duplicates in the lists, not that there weren't semi-duplicates before
with slightly different names or distances; but now there are many
exact duplicates. Is the nuvi somehow using both POI's (2008+2011),
but only the mapping from 2011? Is there a way to verify this, or
force the nuvi to just use the 2011 data exclusively?

Thanks for your help,

Norm

Posted by DaveG on August 4, 2010, 8:33 pm


On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:52:35 -0600, LightRain wrote:

> I have a nuvi 250 that came with 2008 maps installed; this spring I
> bought a 2011 map on an SD card and chose it as the map source to use in
> one of the screens, I can't remeber now which one - it was hard to find.
> Anyhoo, when I search for POI's I quite ofter see many duplicates in the
> lists, not that there weren't semi-duplicates before with slightly
> different names or distances; but now there are many exact duplicates.
> Is the nuvi somehow using both POI's (2008+2011), but only the mapping
> from 2011? Is there a way to verify this, or force the nuvi to just use
> the 2011 data exclusively?
>
It should only use the selected map if you have more than one map
installed. POI files on the other hand are all loaded and merged at
startup time. I deliberately use multiple POI files simply because some
are 3rd party add-ons which I update now and then and another couple are
my personal ones which I update frequently. I have a *lot* of POIs and it
can take some time to update and upload one monolithic POI file.

--
You cannot simply assume someone is honest
just because they are not an MP.


Posted by LightRain on August 7, 2010, 12:04 pm


Thanks Dave!


>On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:52:35 -0600, LightRain wrote:
>> I have a nuvi 250 that came with 2008 maps installed; this spring I
>> bought a 2011 map on an SD card and chose it as the map source to use in
>> one of the screens, I can't remeber now which one - it was hard to find.
>> Anyhoo, when I search for POI's I quite ofter see many duplicates in the
>> lists, not that there weren't semi-duplicates before with slightly
>> different names or distances; but now there are many exact duplicates.
>> Is the nuvi somehow using both POI's (2008+2011), but only the mapping
>> from 2011? Is there a way to verify this, or force the nuvi to just use
>> the 2011 data exclusively?
>>
>It should only use the selected map if you have more than one map
>installed. POI files on the other hand are all loaded and merged at
>startup time. I deliberately use multiple POI files simply because some
>are 3rd party add-ons which I update now and then and another couple are
>my personal ones which I update frequently. I have a *lot* of POIs and it
>can take some time to update and upload one monolithic POI file.