Setting Up Speed Limits on Garmin

TANGLEWOOD · 28-09-2008 01:56AM #1

Hi,

I am new to the sat nav world. I was wondering how you set up the speed limits on a sat nav. Mine is the Garmin 250.

Thanks.

mathew · 28-09-2008 08:36AM

i dont believe there is. The GPS will have speed limits of certain motorways built in to it, dont think you can add speed limits of other roads.

patpark121 · 29-09-2008 01:20PM

have to agree with matthew. I have the 250W & there are no settings on it for speed limits. I have seen it on the becker sat navs that aldi of lidl sell every now and again. Best you can get are the speed alerts from mypois.

coylemj · 29-09-2008 09:52PM

Garmin supports point alerts (hence POI - Points Of Interest), not stretches of roads. The best you can do therefore with a Garmin is to store points where there might be speed checks but you can't store directional data so that you only get alerted when approaching the POI from a certain direction, all you can do is throw a circle around a POI and the unit will beep at you when you enter the circle, this is known as a proximity waypoint.

I.S.T. · 30-09-2008 10:01AM

TANGLEWOOD wrote: »

Hi,

I am new to the sat nav world. I was wondering how you set up the speed limits on a sat nav. Mine is the Garmin 250.

Thanks.

Download POILoader from the Garmain website and have a look at the instructions. You can use a plain text file with the co-ordinates of the camera locations and upload to your Garmin.

coylemj · 30-09-2008 06:09PM

Excuse me but he asked for assistance in downloading speed limits, not speed cameras.

I.S.T. · 30-09-2008 10:59PM

coylemj wrote: »

Excuse me but he asked for assistance in downloading speed limits, not speed cameras.

Sorry I misread his original message. Why are you so bothered about it anyway? :rolleyes:

TANGLEWOOD · 17-10-2008 09:30PM

Thanks everyone for your help. I am interested in the speed cameras so can you tell me a bit more about how upload these?

Thanks.

Setting Up Speed Limits on Garmin

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