slabman
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I am having trouble with my Garmin 780 finding campgrounds. When I type in a CG name, it can't find anything. With other requests, it seems to only search for the nearest match, but not in some distant location. This thing can't be that stupid, so what am I doing wrong?
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Luizianna
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You can go to the POI Factory and download several campground files for the Garmin. Passport America, Good Sam, KOA, etc.
http://www.poi-factory.com/
You will have to go to Garmin website, then to extras and download the POI Loader to get them into your Garmin. There are several other files also, state cg's combined, Federal and Corp cg's...then to access them on your Garmin, you just need to go to "Extra's" on the Garmin menu.
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tkcas01
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Yeah, the stock "yellow pages" in Garmin are hit and miss - heavy on the miss....
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mooreadventures
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The original POI list in your Garmin is not necessarily 'all inclusive', they purchase it from a 3rd party that collects the info (and probably chargesthe companies to be on 'the list'). Plus, there are so many changes that there really is no way to keep up - businesses open/close/move ect.
Like Luizianna said, you go to POI Factory and get all sort of stuff. There are also other sites like www.POInUSA.com and GPS POI US, with more starting up all of the time. Just do a google search and you'll find them.
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Dieselgem
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Use the address rather than the name. I agree with the other poster to download your own POI files. The other thing you can do is go to use google maps or mapquest search the campground name and send the location to your Garmin. I have a 7.5 meg POI travel file. I can email it to you, PM me if you are interested.
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Campnfuls
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Are you selecting "other location" and then entering the nearest town to the campground you are looking for before typing in the campground name? If not, your GPS defaults to campgrounds within a certain radius distance from where you are located.
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cleo43
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Try 'lodging' , sub-category 'campground'.
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tatest
Oklahoma
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To search by name, you need to match the name, as supplied in the POI database. That is hit and miss, in everybody's mapping systems.
I get much better results searching by category, but even then you get only the first so many "nearest" locations.
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Campnfuls wrote:Are you selecting "other location" and then entering the nearest town to the campground you are looking for before typing in the campground name? If not, your GPS defaults to campgrounds within a certain radius distance from where you are located.
This is the most often overlooked step when searching for ANYTHING on a GPS. You need to indicate to the GPS something it will recognize (like a city, town, WELL KNOWN tourist attraction, etc. that is close to the geographical area you want it to search in.
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