Hey Guys, Is there anyway to take a route that you devise from say Google Maps, Mapquest or the like and upload them into a Garmin GPS? GPS's are great to get you from point A to B in a efficient manner but not to good at taking you down the the twisties. I've messed around with it a couple times and came up blank You guys?
I know there is a program for the TomTom that does this and it uses Google Earth. The Garmin allows you to set a waypoint doesn't it? Maybe you could use the long/lat from Google Earth to plot the waypoints.
Small issue with that product... From the Garmin site under the Features tab "You cannot use this product to load maps to your Garmin device."
If you know where the road is from looking at Google maps or whatever simply scroll to that point on the Garmin map by swiping your finger across the screen, make that your starting point, scroll to the finishing point from your Google maps research, and hit save - it's in there!
Only the Garmin 7xx & 8xx series lets you import a route based on waypoints. There are tools that allow Google and other mapping software to build routes that the garmin can import. I just bought the 855 yesterday for $128.00 from newegg and imported a route that we are doing for MINIpalooza
Yes, but .....depending on the model .... you don't need to do that, it's all already in there - you just have to tell it where you want to go. Another way is if you know the town you want to start from, then simply add the town you want to go to and save it - done! Another way is to go to "Tools", then "Routes", "Create new route", add start point, add end point and save - done!
What your talking about Dave sounds good for a simple point A to B What I am looking to is, as an example, I am going to MINI's Slay the Sleeping Dragon and I am setting up some twisty routes through SE Tennessee on the way from St. Louis and in and around Fontana Village. It would be sooo cool to input all of that routing into a GPS and just say 'GO' as opposed to printing off the routes from Google Maps and mathcing it up with the GPS literally on the fly
Right on all that you just said, but what if you are doing a specific route like this. You need to be able to tell the GPS what roads to take and not let it decide for you.
I sold my 1350T for the 855. The 1350T was a much newer model and glad the priced has dropped from 399 to 129 on the 855
Well, I took your Google Map and went to "Routes" under Tools, like I said before. I used Winston Salem as the starting point then just added the towns along the route as "new end point", then hit "next" button - it calculated the same exact route as you put up - easy peasy. Then hit Save....
I'll try your method Dave One of the reasons I bought the one I did was it's compatibility with the EcoRoute HD (just ordered it) The 855 is discontinued however there are other models that do the routing and EcoRoute Choices....
I bought the 1490T expressly so I could use it with the Eco-route dongle (that and it was on sale at Costco), so all my comments are based on playing around with that model. Which one did you get?