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Sending Google Map route to Garmin Zumo 550
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<blockquote data-quote="Fred W" data-source="post: 882196" data-attributes="member: 3828"><p>There is. Sort of...</p><p></p><p>There is a little free utility called GMapToGPX (link <a href="https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/" target="_blank">here</a>) which will convert any GoogleMap route (made in the "Directions" section of GoogleMaps) into a GPX text file. When this utility creates the GPX file it inserts a bazillion via points at nearly every turn so the GPX route will be very close to what you have in Google. You can then open the GPX file in Mapsource and massage it to your liking before you send it to your GPS.</p><p></p><p>I have used this technique in the past, and it works OK.</p><p></p><p>I have since just become more adept at routing directly in Mapsource and skip all of the translation issues.</p><p></p><p>Once you go through the pain of learning the non-intuitive Mapsource user interface, it is just as quick to use as GoogleMaps or MapQuest.</p><p></p><p>I have tried TYRE and found it as unintuitive as Mapsource and it still has map database translation issues.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Not really. It will send the saved waypoints and connect them as a route, but if you make modifications of the route by dragging the route around, (which is the whole point of using these web sites to create the routes), these will all be lost on transfer to the GPS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred W, post: 882196, member: 3828"] There is. Sort of... There is a little free utility called GMapToGPX (link [URL="https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/"]here[/URL]) which will convert any GoogleMap route (made in the "Directions" section of GoogleMaps) into a GPX text file. When this utility creates the GPX file it inserts a bazillion via points at nearly every turn so the GPX route will be very close to what you have in Google. You can then open the GPX file in Mapsource and massage it to your liking before you send it to your GPS. I have used this technique in the past, and it works OK. I have since just become more adept at routing directly in Mapsource and skip all of the translation issues. Once you go through the pain of learning the non-intuitive Mapsource user interface, it is just as quick to use as GoogleMaps or MapQuest. I have tried TYRE and found it as unintuitive as Mapsource and it still has map database translation issues. Not really. It will send the saved waypoints and connect them as a route, but if you make modifications of the route by dragging the route around, (which is the whole point of using these web sites to create the routes), these will all be lost on transfer to the GPS. [/QUOTE]
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