"Navigate To" Question
Wed, 07/15/2009 - 5:21pm
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14 years
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I had a TomTom that could not do this and have not found a way for the NUVI. Is there some way to select a bridge, highway or tunnel as a 'navigate to' location? Let's say I'm someplace and want to get to the George Washington Bridge or the Bronx River Parkway. Does not seem to be a way to do this. I did see in the POI database someone created a file for the NYC bridges and tunnels and that would be helpful but limited for what I had in mind. Any guidance appreciated.
Regards.... Steve
Create your own poi file
If you can find a location in google maps, than use the link button, and then copy it to notepad, you can see the lat/long. Than you create csv file like so:
-97.234156,35.123456,"Name you assign"
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You can go to the map screen, scroll to the location, and press GO.
You can go to intersections.
You can go to intersections.
Nuvi 3790LMT, Nuvi 760 Lifetime map, Lifetime NavTraffic, Garmin E-Trex Legend Just because "Everyone" drives badly does not mean you have to.
TomTom
I had a TomTom that could not do this and have not found a way for the NUVI. Is there some way to select a bridge, highway or tunnel as a 'navigate to' location?....
Actually can do this on TomTom (But maybe you did have an older one that could not...?). Navigate To/Place on map/ and select the point. Or from map browser select point and tap the funny blue circle thing (I'm sure there is a technical name
) and Navigate To.
select a point
For navigating to something without an address, you can use coordinates instead. There are a couple ways to do this easily. Several of the third-party programs will let you manually put a waypoint on the map and transfer it as a Favorite to the GPS. My personal favorite for this is GeePeeEx Editor. Garmin's MapSource will do this, too. To do it on the Nuvi, find an address or intersection that is close and then scroll the map to the bridge and put the arrow cursor over it. Select Save and it will save that point to your Favorites. Your Nuvi will navigate to that just as easily as it does to something with a regular address.