I am not sure exact price but from what I know it is cheap. Nuvi 255W GPS on sale at Target : I just heared that Target has a great deal on Garmin Nuvi 255W GPS bundle. I will provide you with me email once I hear from you. Please let me know even if your Maps for Garmin are outdated.
Looking for Free Maps for Garmin GPS : I am looking for free maps for my Gramin GPS device. Maybe someone knows where to download them. I have GPS Maps for USA and Canada and if you want one, I can send you a link for this downloads.
Updates : I am disappointed because they told me when I bought this gps, that I could update for free up to four times, and I just went to the garmin web site and you have to buy the upgrade for $50.ĭownload GPS Maps : I am looking for a resource where I can download maps for different countries on my Garmin GPS Portable.
Nuvi 255W Owners Manual provides you with the all nessesary information to start up your device, use it while on the road and take care of it while in storage.įree north american map for garmin nuvi 255w
You can find Nuvi 255W in store online via Part # 010-00718-20 Other Features that you may find interesting and useful are: It has bigger size which helps you to look at the larger area where you drive. Garmin Nuvi 255W is a wide screen GPS Device with 4.3 inch display that is bright during the most sunny days and easy to look at from any direction. It has somewhat standard set of POI with the listings of hotels, restaurants, ATMs and gas stations.
Each map comes with million points of interest which you can also customize and set up over 1000 points if interest. It has very good mapping capabilities as you are provided with North America Maps as well as European Maps. However, it does have decent GPS capabilities and you can get optional real-time traffic via subscription to MSN Direct. It is part now famous 2x5 series which is designed to give users simple to use and affordable no bells and whistles GPS device. Garmin Nuvi 255W is another affordable automotive GPS by Garmin. Please wait until the download is completed.Desription. your IP address .xx is already downloading a file. I see two round speedometers showing some activity but on my browser status bar, it shows "Done". Go to and type in what you want to say on file.Follow instructions to save.It will save as a wave file.Now put this wave file you created in the same folder as the school zone.Name csv and wave file the same name.Don't type nothing but the name and double check they are the same.Run custom poi in simulation mode to see if it works.You will have to run poiloader in manual mode for the alert to work unless you see a speed in the file name like school zone tried downloading that file but nothing seems to be happening. Once you download it unzip the file and right click and copy it.Now click on my computer,then click your local disk.You will see a file called Garmin.Open it up and paste the sox file there. I recommend a 2 GB SD card for your particular model. It also helps (tremendously) to have external storage for your NUVI. While the 255 is a new unit, you may need to do an update using Web Updater before the new voices will work. From here, you can download additional vehicle icons, voices for your unit and other goodies.
Download and install the Garmin Communicator, POI Loader and Web Updater. If you go to the Garmin Garage website, there are several programs you can download that will help customize your unit. It takes 5 weeks of monitoring and posting to be classified as an active user. Red Light and speed cameras are available here at POI-Factory, however I believe there is a charge for the files unless you are an active user. Do I have to pay for that or I can download it from somewhere? I have heard that you can set proximity alerts on this unit that will alert you when you are approaching school zone, traffic cameras and red light cameras etc.ĭefault list of POI does not have traffic cameras or redlight cameras. TTS sounds little robotic sounding but I can live with it. I have been using Garmin Nuvi 255W for last 2 days and so far fairly happy with it.