Garmin C330 and Lat/Long

 

My kids got hooked on Geo-Caching when I had my Garmin E-Trex.
Problem was, I would still get lost when driving, It was great for telling me where I was, But not where anything else was.

So
We got the Garmin C330
I Love it. (Except for it saying their are some roads present, when their are none, But this is Rare)

But it doesn't do Long/Lat entry (That I can tell)
Anyway to use Long/Lat for Geo-Caching with the C330 ???

Tracy

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TRACY

Custom POIs from GPX

It may not be the easiest approach, but you could create a custom POI file for your Geocache locations and then load them into your c330 using POI Loader.

If you're a premium member on Geocaching.com, it's my understanding that you can download locations in GPX format. POI Loader is supposed to read GPX files, but I haven't tried it with geocache locations yet.

Do you have a geocaching account that can download GPX files?

JM

GOOGLE EARTH

Someone E-Mailed me that I can use Long/Lat with Google Earth, and you can save Google Earth POI's in GARMIN .cvs format, to use in the PIO Loader.

I'll give this a try later, and see if it works, and let you know.

T. Laudenslager
Ocala, Florida

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TRACY

How old are your kids Tracy?

How old are your kids Tracy? JM and I have two little girls, ages 3 and 5. We like to go geo caching also, great family fun!!
Maryann

Kids

My Wife Lynn and I have 5 kids.
1 Girl, and 4 Boys
Nmaes Ages M/F
Tracie 20 F
Michael 19 M
Matthew 17 M
Paul 15 M
Christopher 12 M

All 4 boys are on a Pro-Paintball team.
1 is 1st string
1 is 2nd string
1 is Young Guns
and the oldest is benched because of bad grades in school

We also wanted the GPS to help find some VERY obscure places that they go for Paintball Competetions

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TRACY

IT WORKS

OK
I found my Waypoints in Google Earth, and drag/Dropped them into a file in my Fav. Then I clicked on that File and hit Save As, and saved them in .klv format.

This is reconized by PoiEdit, then saved that as a Garmin .cvs file.

Then switched to PoiLoader, and downloaded it to the Garmin.

Sounds like alot, But it worked GREAT.

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TRACY

Garmin C330

Tracy,

I own a Garmin StreetPilot 2730 and I recently downloaded the latest firmware for it from Garmin, version 6.30. One of the new features of the new fireware, you can now enter coordinate data directly into the GPS from the screen generated keyboard. You can directly enter coordinates to find or, have the exact coordinates of you current possion displayed on the map.

Unfortunatly, I checked the Garmin site and the latest firmware (or Unit Software in Garmin terminalogy) for you c330 does not support this new feature.

You and others (in the forum) who have the c330 may want to begin sending emails to Garmin support asking for direct coordinate entry/disply feature. In my opinion, all GPS units should have this fundimental function.

Jukeman57

POi

How do I add new POI to the garmin c330?

Pois

GONMADD wrote:

How do I add new POI to the garmin c330?

You can't add to the internal pois by Garmin but you sure can add custom pois. See http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25721

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

Thanks. Downloaded the POI

Thanks. Downloaded the POI loader from Garmin and some POIs from this site. Will attempt adding to device tomorrow.

SD card

GONMADD wrote:

Thanks. Downloaded the POI loader from Garmin and some POIs from this site. Will attempt adding to device tomorrow.

I have a 340, and need to use an SD card to load the POIs. It isn't possible to load directly to the unit.

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Streetpilot C340 Nuvi 2595 LMT

Custom pois

shrifty wrote:
GONMADD wrote:

Thanks. Downloaded the POI loader from Garmin and some POIs from this site. Will attempt adding to device tomorrow.

I have a 340, and need to use an SD card to load the POIs. It isn't possible to load directly to the unit.

You can load pois to a 340 but not to a sd card.I use to own a 340.You are limited on the space though so you have to be selected. According to the manual you can load maps to sd card but not custom pois.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

please ignore my previous message

charlesd45 wrote:

You can load pois to a 340 but not to a sd card.I use to own a 340.You are limited on the space though so you have to be selected. According to the manual you can load maps to sd card but not custom pois.

Thanks for the correction Charles, I just re-read what I wrote. I was completely 180 from being accurate on what I typed.

You are correct, c340 can only load on unit itself, can't do it on sd card.

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Streetpilot C340 Nuvi 2595 LMT