Coordinates of a street intersection

 

Is there anything button to press on my Garmin 255W to get the coordinates of all my Favorite POIs, in particular street intersections saved in My Favorites?

BTW, much thanks to Miss POI whose School Zone alert csv file just saved me from getting a $160 speeding ticket. The audio alert got me to slow down to 50 kph in a rarely driven neighborhood school zone ahead of me. I then noticed there was a police cruiser parked on one of the side streets waiting for speedsters.

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I am glad that you found the file useful. You may want to also send a note to the file manager who created it;) I am sure that would make their day.

Miss POI

Google Maps

I don't think it displays coordinates once it is saved as a location. If there are not a lot you can go to google maps and zoom into the intersection. Right click the intersection and select "center map here". Then in the upper right corner of the map above the "map, satellite, terrain" option click the "link" button. It will look like this..

maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.350355,-111.72143&spn=0.006856,0.009656&z=17

Copy/paste the link somewhere and cut out the coords.

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Google Earth

Absolute wrote:

I don't think it displays coordinates once it is saved as a location. If there are not a lot you can go to google maps and zoom into the intersection. Right click the intersection and select "center map here". Then in the upper right corner of the map above the "map, satellite, terrain" option click the "link" button. It will look like this..

maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.350355,-111.72143&spn=0.006856,0.009656&z=17

Copy/paste the link somewhere and cut out the coords.

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Absolute, what a piece of great advice! OK, I'll head to Google Earth and do as you said. thanks!

Import to Mapsource

withashout wrote:

Is there anything button to press on my Garmin 255W to get the coordinates of all my Favorite POIs, in particular street intersections saved in My Favorites?

If you need the coordinates, you can use mapsource and import the waypoints from your GPSr. Mapsource will import your favorites and will display the coordinates.

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Garmin StreetPilot c530, Mapsource