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old 660 & 680 questions

 
Sun, 04/27/2014 - 4:17am

I was recently told about routing dozens of stops here in town by loading a GPX file into a GPS, which will (or can?) theoretically arrange all such stops in the most efficient order, based upon the shortest rout, or else the fastest rout, depending on which priority I select. This would be ideal for a delivery driver, or anyone who needs to find many new addresses each day.

I have two older Nuvis, a 660 and a 680. Does anyone know whether I can load and use this GPX way of doing things on my older GPS machines? I don't even know how to tell whether I can do this with my Nuvis.

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--
Sun, 04/27/2014 - 5:55am

the user manual

The user manual for your 660 states it allows multipoint routing. It doesn't state if it can reorder them or not. One of the standalone travel packages such as DeLorme's or Microsoft's would allow the routes to be built on a PC and then transferred to the unit.I honestly don't know if BaseCamp allows this or not.

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Sun, 04/27/2014 - 10:44am

Routing

Here is a simple routing option http://www.mapquest.com/routeplanner .Once you get all your stops in and optimized. The send tab will appear.This allows you to send to gps as well as other options.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.
Mon, 04/28/2014 - 5:35am

Thanks for this.

Thanks for this.

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 5:38am

--Yes, thank you...

Yes, thank you for the helpful info-

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~Jim~ Nuvi-660, & Nuvi-680
Thu, 05/01/2014 - 10:38pm

Thank you, guys!

Thank you Box Car and charlesd45 for your helpful answers, I think I know what to do now.

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--
Fri, 05/02/2014 - 7:33am

If you are manually entering

If you are manually entering the route at the 660, it will allow one addition.... and when you enter the new address, you can select that this addition become the new endpoint, or midpoint, but you'll only be allowed to manually enter one.

I have not tried entering a complete route externally into the 660, however.

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A 2689LMT in both our cars that we love... and a Nuvi 660 with Lifetime Maps that we have had literally forever.... And a 2011 Ford Escape with Nav System that is totally ignored!
Fri, 05/02/2014 - 8:58am

great tip

charlesd45 wrote:

Here is a simple routing option http://www.mapquest.com/routeplanner .Once you get all your stops in and optimized. The send tab will appear.This allows you to send to gps as well as other options.

Thanks so much. once on the Nuvi, how do I bring it up?

Fri, 05/02/2014 - 10:22am

@ bsp131. Import Route

Once you have sent the route to the GPS using MapQuest you have to import the route.See https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?... this on the units you have listed in your account Nuvi 765t (primary) and Nuvi 650.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.
Fri, 05/02/2014 - 12:05pm

Mapquest

If you are experimenting with transferring a route from Mapquest, you might want to take a look at this post:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/39727

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon
Mon, 05/05/2014 - 9:32am

Thanks.

I am going to try it this weekend.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 6:04pm

Again, thanks to all!

Again, thanks to all!

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--