I bought my Nüvi a few months ago and overall I have been quite happy with it. I did discover at least one thing I did not like. You can create a waypoint based on an address and put it in your ‘Favorites’ to retrieve later. What you often find is that addresses are not always geocoded to a very high degree of accuracy. In fact, some times they can be several hundred yards off or even further! Now to be fair, this may not be something we can blame on Garmin. I am sure that mapping data comes from many sources. It’s just that the Nüvi ought to have a way to easily correct that. Unfortunately, it is not easily done. What you CAN do is that when you do find the place, you can always create a new location by tapping it’s screen and saving it, but NOW there is another problem! At this point you cannot enter the address back into the Waypoint you just created.

City Navigator North America NT 2009 calculated the address on the right. The distance between the point calculated and the actual location is about .3877 miles. (.6239 kilometers)

Nuvi Editor is intuitively easy to use.

Nüvi editor is a program to help you edit waypoints that you can save to disk or send to your nüvi. The program has a Geocoder linked to Google Maps which you can use to get the coordinates of an address and also has a Google Maps view page which will let you narrow down your coordinates to within a few feet of accuracy. With Garmin's POI loader you can also use files created by nüvi editor to create thousands of 'Points of Interest' which you can store on your nüvi or on a SD card in the slot on the side of your nüvi. The nüvi is a great little device, however it lacks the ability to go back and re-edit waypoints that are stored in it. This small deficiency can be a nuisance when you realize that the nüvi also stores addresses and phone numbers. It is useful to store all of the information.

Use the Geocoder to find the coordinates in an address.

Use the GoogleMap button set precise coordinates.