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Towpro
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 09:13 am: | 
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Use the dash 12V socket. Then you can also use the GPS in your car.
I use the dash socket for my Delorme, then I have three 12V outlets plus a USB outlet in my tank bag. Inside the tank bag I run Serius radio, cell phone, maybe a 2nd GPS (my Nuvi). I also charge batteries for Bike to Bike radio, flashlights, etc while riding. |
Sleez
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 09:45 am: |
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one on woot right now...
http://www.woot.com/
haven't researched it yet to see if it meets all your needs??? |
Trevd
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 04:05 pm: |
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"one on woot right now... "
Got one already on Ebay - a Garmin 2720... |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 04:21 pm: |
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The quest will leave your route from Mapsource unmolested, and if your route includes waypoints (you can have a bunch on the quest) the quest will even recalculate when you get off route and keep most of your original plan intact (as it recalculates, but recalculates through the waypoints, which are pretty easy to place such that the route goes where you want).
It can be slow to give a wrong answer... so if you are looking for something that isnt there (typo, or restaurant that isn't within 100 miles) it can take forever to find it (like 10 minutes). But if you put the right data in, it'll find it almost instantly. Best yet, just put in a street address, and it will find and route in seconds.
That's what I do... just make sure I have a real honest to God street address while I am online (wifi, blackberry, whatever) then just put the address in the quest.
I got my last quest on ebay for $30 to my door (broken antenna that I fixed in 5 minutes with instructions I posted here). That included the car adapter. 
It's a lean mean navigation machine, not a mapping video game (nothing wrong with that... but I don't want one on my motorcycle). |
Court
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2014 - 02:22 pm: |
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I need one of you experienced GPS users . . . .
QUESTION: Can I create a map in Google Maps or Google Earth and upload the file to my Garmin 550 GPS?
Pointers?
I've always programed them manually . . . but in my sunset years I'm getting lazy. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2014 - 04:40 pm: |
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I believe Google Earth lets you do it and export a file that you can import to your Garmin. The problem is, due to variances in maps, the Garmin will recalculate it once it opens it, so you will want to make a lot of waypoints to try and get the Garmin to stick to the route as much as possible. |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 08:03 am: |
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In theory, the answer is "yes" for sufficiently narrow definitions of "yes".
But I would recommend against trying. The "route mangling" is just one problem. You also will likely have to jump through a couple of intermediate hoops also with installing desktop software meant to do something else and messing with extensions.
The best approach is to use MapSource or Basecamp from Garmin and do manual routing there, then uploading that route to the 550. The 550 is one of the few Garmins that will maintain the route correctly in that case (and is why it was so stinking expensive).
I think Basecamp is running pretty well on the Mac these days, but haven't tried it. |
Court
| | Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 09:08 am: |
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Cool...... I hadn't seen Basecamp.
That's awesome and should work great!
Thanks |
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