Downloading Waypoints

[+Geocvl]

I'm just getting started and can't figure out how to download a *.loc file from geocaching.com to my Garmin GPSMAP 60C. The 60C doesn't seem to recognize the *.loc file. Any Help?

[+Thot]

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=105979

http://www.geocaching.com/waypoints/

[Team Firebird]

do you use mapsource? If you do, use a tool like GSAK to convert the loc files to mapsourse files.

[carol222222]

Hi, I am also sooo new and have just purchased a garmin etrex venture. I have downloaded EasyGPS and the waypoints but can't get the the waypoints to the garman - nothing is transferred. I have also got Ms autoroute 2005 and hope that that will communicate with the garman via a laptop. Help please

[Dale_Lynn]

Do you have EasyGPS configured properly???? Is it setup for the Etrex?

 

What is not happening, by that I mean is, "what error codes" is EasyGPS displaying when you try to access GPS unit?

 

Dale

[carol222222]

Hi I believe the software is set up OK. I did not get any drivers with the serial/usb adaptor. Should i have? My pc just does not recognise the connection on any of its usb ports. It is winXP home

[+Thot]

I did not get any drivers with the serial/usb adaptor.  Should i have?

No. It does not require drivers to use EasyGPS

My pc just does not recognise the connection on any of its usb ports.  It is winXP home

I'm not familiar with the Etrex Venture but most GPSrs connect with serial connections. A problem I had setting up EasyGPS initially was the BAUD (bits/sec) rate. I was trying to set it higher because the computer was capable and the GPSr said it was capable. For some reason it wouldn't work. When I finally used the default of 4000 everything began working. I will say it worked erratically at the higher setting and yours seems to be doing nothing at all. If your unit uses serial connection the chances are your problem is in the Comm Port configuration.

Edited October 12, 2005 by Thot

[+CompuCash]

check these out -

 

start here

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...ndpost&p=974744

 

then here -

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...dpost&p=1423844

 

cc\

[Dale_Lynn]

I did not get any drivers with the serial/usb adaptor.

 

IF the serial/USB adapter is part of GPS "package" from GPS manufacturer, there should have been a disk with drivers included in GPS package when you bought it.

 

IF Serial/USB adapter is a third party cable you bought separate from GPS unit, there should have been drivers in package with cable. Generally on a CD-ROM. It usually necessary to load Serial/USB driver before you plug in cable for first time...

 

With out drivers Serial/USB cable is just a "paperweight"....

 

If you don't have the drivers for Serial/USB cable check manufacturers website to see if they have them online and that you can download them.

 

Dale

[+Polar B's]

Hi I believe the software is set up OK. I did not get any drivers with the serial/usb adaptor. Should i have? My pc just does not recognise the connection on any of its usb ports. It is winXP home

yeah, I had the same problem with a usb/serial adapter. I thought it kind of funny that the manufacters did have the diver either, almost like they expect you to have it. I actually had to find the driver somewhere else than the manufacturers site. What make/model do you have?

[+Netta & Thunder]

I had this same problem last week with my new Garmin Legend. I would download files to EasyGPS, but they would not transfer to my GPS. I'd get an Error 22 or Error 23 message. Finally what worked was to have the GPS turned on and set to Find Waypoint. Then they transferred.

[+Chuy!]

do you use mapsource? If you do, use a tool like GSAK to convert the loc files to mapsourse files.

Not anymore!

 

The current version of MapSource, a beta one, opens up .loc files without additional software "interference". But you can only open "virgin" .loc files. That it, if you save a .loc file with EasyGPS, MapSource will not open it; I've tried. Don't know about GSAK created .loc files.

[+bilgeratt]

Hi I believe the software is set up OK. I did not get any drivers with the serial/usb adaptor. Should i have? My pc just does not recognise the connection on any of its usb ports. It is winXP home

Carol, I had this same problem 2 weeks ago, with my new Vista C. The GPS might as well not even exist as far as the computer was concerned. I DID get the drivers and had loaded them, it's just that Windows 98 needed to be "pushed around" to get it to recognize them.

 

Now, your base problem isn't going to be the same since you're on XP, but what worked as a solution for me should work for you too. And that is,

 

CALL GARMIN TECH SUPPORT.

 

I gritted my teeth and did it, expecting an hour wait, a non-english speaking tech, and an attitude that I was just bothering them SOOO much. What I got instead was a 4 minute hold time, a Kansas City resident who geocaches, who understood when I told him I was a computer moron, and who led me by the hand through fixing the problem I had in the first place, and then LED ME THROUGH THE WHOLE MAP INSTALL PROCESS JUST BECAUSE I WAS CHICKEN.

 

My experience was absolutely awesome, and I can't say enough about it.

 

Thank goodness for tech support like that.

 

Call them, and see if they can't help you out.

[+Geocvl]

Ok, I've got EasyGPS configured and have figured out how to download waypoints into my Garmin as Geocache coordinates. However, all I get is the name of the cache and the coordinates. Is there any way to get the description and hint downloaded too?

[+ClydeE]

Ok, I've got EasyGPS configured and have figured out how to download waypoints into my Garmin as Geocache coordinates. However, all I get is the name of the cache and the coordinates. Is there any way to get the description and hint downloaded too?

Please see item 2 of the FAQ here http://gsak.net/help/hs1070.htm

 

This is the GSAK FAQ but the same reason applies to all software.

[+Markwell]

I've never had any drivers with the cables except the Magellan Explorist. I think the problem with EasyGPS is the fact that it's a USB and not a COM port.

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.

 

GSAK should be able to transmit the coords to the GPS.