Creating a Route (workaround) for 350

 

Don't know if this has been thought of.

Idea is to use custom POIs in dedicated folder.
Create your destinations in an excel spreadsheet
LAT, LONG, Name, descript. In sequence of route desired.
Prefix each Name with a numerical sequence, in order of your route. IE: 01-, 02-, 03-, …

Example:
Lat, Long, 01-San Francisco, SF City Hall
Lat, Long, 02-San Jose, San Jose City Hall
Lat, Long, 03-Berkeley, UC at Berkeley
Lat, Long, 04-Los Angeles, LA Disneyland
Lat, Long, 05-Las Vegas, Mirage Casino
Lat, Long, 06-Phoenix,
Etc ….

Place your route csv file in a folder, ie: vacation-07

Load vacation-07 and the rest of your custom POIs

In this example,
You’ll notice after you get to your 1st destination. When looking for your next destination in Vacation-07. The 03-Berkeley will be next since its closer to your current location. But knowing that the next sequence is 02 (02-San Jose farther away), use the up/down arrow to search for it (if not there) and then select it. If the next destination is closer it will show up correctly.

You could do the same thing with your entire route on a piece of paper and enter it manually each time. But hopefully this makes it a bit easier.

Haven’t tried this yet, but I think it will work. I did the paper version on an earlier trip this year. I think this would of made it a lot easier.

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HarveyS - Nuvi 350

Did this very thing...

Great minds think alike they say...

I did this recently on a 'cruise-day' with my local car club. It works fairly well.

Although one of my friends had a $189.00 Magellan that organized all his points into a planned route. There were also some TomToms that did the same thing.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade my Nuvi - but still, I would think this is an easy thing for Garmin to incorporate into the Nuvi's, no?

Cheers!

I did something similar....

I did something similar with my Nuvi 660 but I found that using a number in the waypoint name in the POI file I created caused it to act like a speed zone warning. So I changed the waypoint name from 00 to AA, 01 to AB, etc. That stopped the speed zone notification from happening.

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Barry - Nuvi 660 and 2 Nuvi 765's

Use letters, not numbers in file names

barryde56 wrote:

I did something similar with my Nuvi 660 but I found that using a number in the waypoint name in the POI file I created caused it to act like a speed zone warning. So I changed the waypoint name from 00 to AA, 01 to AB, etc. That stopped the speed zone notification from happening.

That is a good idea. I have also used alphabetic spelling (e.g. Stop One, Stop Two).

Setting in cities, attractions, or coordinates ahead of time is the best way to have your waypoint-to-waypoint routes calculated.

Another planning option I tried is the new Google Map direction feature that lets you move the suggested route to different waypoints. You can then see what the time difference would be. On a trip from Denver to Philadelphia I saw that the I-70 route was only an hour different than it's recommended I-80 and I-90 route. I then put in waypoints through St. Louis and Columbus to get my desired route.

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Brent - DriveLuxe 51 LMT-S

Great Idea

Have a 370 and unfortunately it will handle only one waypoint. Planning a trip to Italy and have been using google earth to get coordinates. I think this method would really help to organize the route and stops. Just have to give it a try. Maybe Garmin will give us a break and add multiple waypoints to a future software update.

Thanks, for the idea.

Joe

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Joe - nuvi 370

You can...sort of

If you have Mapsource, you can create a poi of a route.

I believe Hornbyp brought this up and gave directions a couple of weeks ago...I searched but couldn't find the post.

Basically, use the "route tool" mark your points and save the file. When it's loaded via poi loader, it will show up as a custom poi.

Definitely easier than creating a file and finding each lat and long etc. Let Mapsource do it.

I think this will pretty much give the same result that HarveyS is getting.

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........Garmin StreetPilot c550 / Nüvi 765...........

Just got Mapsource

I did not get Mapsource when I purchased the 370, but the 2008NT Mapsource disk just came in the mail. To be honest, I really have to read up as to what Mapsource can do for me.

In your suggestion, the entire route shows up as one custom POI? Don't understand how that would work, but I definitely have to give it a try. Now, can I figure all this out before I go to Italy. Is there a faq somewhere that could help with my learning process? Should probably first go the Garmin website and start there.

Thanks for the info.
Joe

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Joe - nuvi 370

yes, one poi

novette wrote:

I did not get Mapsource when I purchased the 370, but the 2008NT Mapsource disk just came in the mail. To be honest, I really have to read up as to what Mapsource can do for me.

In your suggestion, the entire route shows up as one custom POI? Don't understand how that would work, but I definitely have to give it a try. Now, can I figure all this out before I go to Italy. Is there a faq somewhere that could help with my learning process? Should probably first go the Garmin website and start there.

Thanks for the info.
Joe

Yes, it would come out as one poi with the via points in between. You could select any of the points to "go" to. However, I don't think there is a way edit each points name such as stop AA and stop AB etc.
You could, set it up this way, then check each via point...to get the lat and long and continue with creating the poi one by one. It would be an easier way to get the lat and long at least.

For the learning process;
You can read the Help files within Mapsource or Poi Loader etc. Not sure the Garmin web site will provide much. You can always search here and ask the questions.

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........Garmin StreetPilot c550 / Nüvi 765...........

Numbers in file names

barryde56 wrote:

I did something similar with my Nuvi 660 but I found that using a number in the waypoint name in the POI file I created caused it to act like a speed zone warning. So I changed the waypoint name from 00 to AA, 01 to AB, etc. That stopped the speed zone notification from happening.

Start with a number 125 or larger. I use 200. After that number, you can place point (.) and then another number. i.e. 200.01 filename.csv.

Any number in the file name between 1 and 124, is interpreted as a speed.

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso (Bob - Garmin c530, eTrex Vista HCx)

Basic Question

I mentioned earlier that I received the 2008NT update. O.K. I know this is probably basic, dumb question, but is the MapUpdate the same as MapSource?

Mea Culpa,
Joe

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Joe - nuvi 370

Nope

novette wrote:

I mentioned earlier that I received the 2008NT update. O.K. I know this is probably basic, dumb question, but is the MapUpdate the same as MapSource?

Mea Culpa,
Joe

Nope, two different things.

nuvi 700's do multi routing,

nuvi 700's do multi routing, zumo's do it, streetpilot 7XXX, and streetpilots 2xxx

Well spotted.

Summermug wrote:

Any number in the file name between 1 and 124, is interpreted as a speed.

Unusual of Garmin to do any form of Sanity Checking wink

Just one detail to add: it turns out that if you use "metres and Km/h" as units in POI Loader, then the range is 1-200...so maybe you want to start at 201 smile

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------------------------ Phil Hornby, Stockport, England ----------------------               http://GeePeeEx.com - Garmin POI Creation made easy           »      

Never could get use to Klicks

Hornbyp wrote:
Summermug wrote:

Any number in the file name between 1 and 124, is interpreted as a speed.

Unusual of Garmin to do any form of Sanity Checking wink

Just one detail to add: it turns out that if you use "metres and Km/h" as units in POI Loader, then the range is 1-200...so maybe you want to start at 201 smile

Nice catch. I forgot the rest of the world uses metric system cool

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso (Bob - Garmin c530, eTrex Vista HCx)

Sometimes...

Summermug wrote:

Nice catch. I forgot the rest of the world uses metric system cool

The European Union has just given up on making the UK fully metric. So we can continuing buying beer by the pint and Jack Daniel's in 35ml shots...and petrol by the litre, while continuing to talk about fuel consumption in miles-per-gallon smile

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------------------------ Phil Hornby, Stockport, England ----------------------               http://GeePeeEx.com - Garmin POI Creation made easy           »      

How about

Hornbyp wrote:
Summermug wrote:

Nice catch. I forgot the rest of the world uses metric system cool

The European Union has just given up on making the UK fully metric. So we can continuing buying beer by the pint and Jack Daniel's in 35ml shots...and petrol by the litre, while continuing to talk about fuel consumption in miles-per-gallon smile

How about meter per litre, has a nice ring to it. LOL