Neat GPS Trick
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Neat GPS Trick
This may have been posted here before but it's news to me.
Google and Mapquest both have the ability to send an exact location to a GPS unit.
I use an Edge 705 on my bike and just got a Nuvi 205 for my car. Also living in Japan I can have my wife google map up someplace I'm looking for and then transfer that point to the GPS unit as a favorite.
I could try to explain it but this web link does it better.
https://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/ga....htm#importing
John
Google and Mapquest both have the ability to send an exact location to a GPS unit.
I use an Edge 705 on my bike and just got a Nuvi 205 for my car. Also living in Japan I can have my wife google map up someplace I'm looking for and then transfer that point to the GPS unit as a favorite.
I could try to explain it but this web link does it better.
https://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/ga....htm#importing
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01-12-10, 08:12 PM
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I can use that feature with My Mio GPS unit, too. Unfortunately, the areas I bike in most frequently during good weather are the unimproved forest roads in the national forest that I live in and they aren't on any commercial maps and most aren't even mapped by Google. Fortunately, I can run Ozi Explorer CE on my Mio since I've hacked it to run Mio Pocket. That allows me to import the USGS free topo maps of the forest. These are about the only maps that have most of the unimproved forest roads mapped out.
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