+Insp Gadget Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I am taking a long trip in a few days and I have created GPX files for the trip route. Since I will not be bringing my laptop, whats the easiest way to transfer waypoints into my 60CX? Is there a program that can be run from a flash drive? Quote Link to comment
+v2lek Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I am taking a long trip in a few days and I have created GPX files for the trip route. Since I will not be bringing my laptop, whats the easiest way to transfer waypoints into my 60CX? Is there a program that can be run from a flash drive? Besides typing them in manually - no other way that I know of. Why not load the gpx file(s) right away ? Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 If you're using a PDA and have a serial cable I believe you can use CacheMate to transfer data. With a Pam PDA and a serial cable (not USB) you can use GPilotS (freeware) Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Is there a program that can be run from a flash drive? You could try programs that don't don't have to be installed such as G7toWIN or GPSBabel. Quote Link to comment
+IBcrashen Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Why not load them all? If over 1000 you could load them as POI. Quote Link to comment
+Insp Gadget Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 I am taking a long trip in a few days and I have created GPX files for the trip route. Since I will not be bringing my laptop, whats the easiest way to transfer waypoints into my 60CX? Is there a program that can be run from a flash drive? Besides typing them in manually - no other way that I know of. Why not load the gpx file(s) right away ? There are well over 1000 caches in my files. We are going for 2 weeks and the trip is over 5000km. The caches along the way there are about 800. Then when I get to Toronto, the caches there are easily 1000, then the trip back, but a different route is many more caches. Just easir to load them in bunches.... Quote Link to comment
+Insp Gadget Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 If you're using a PDA and have a serial cable I believe you can use CacheMate to transfer data. With a Pam PDA and a serial cable (not USB) you can use GPilotS (freeware) Unfortunately no PDA. Quote Link to comment
+Insp Gadget Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Is there a program that can be run from a flash drive? You could try programs that don't don't have to be installed such as G7toWIN or GPSBabel. EXACTLY what I am looking for!!!! I will give these a try! Thanks so much!! Quote Link to comment
+Timpat Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 As suggested earlier, why not load them ALL as custom POIs using the free Garmin POI Loader. The Loader will take any and all .gpx cache files you have and load them. If use GSAK as a waypoint manager it is easy to create one big .gpx file for your 60Cx and have a 14 character Smart Name, with a 30 character Hint in the comment field. There is no upper limit to the number of custom POIs you can have loaded, only available memory in the limiting factor, and when I load 1800+ caches it's only about 10mb total. Quote Link to comment
+ferventkids Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I am not sure about your model, but what I am doing for our road trip is, poi file i5_sac_or.mgln I-5 Sac to Oregon (400 approx) poi file i5_or_wa.mgln I-5 Oregon to Washington (400 approx) poi file mt_st_helens.mgln Mount Saint Helens poi file washington.mgln the area where we will be plus my home town and camping ones, all together over 1800 poi programmed in different files. As I change areas, I go to my poi and select the appropriate file. Much easier doing it on my home computer Enjoy the trip Quote Link to comment
+cethomas Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I am not sure about your model, but what I am doing for our road trip is, poi file i5_sac_or.mgln I-5 Sac to Oregon (400 approx) poi file i5_or_wa.mgln I-5 Oregon to Washington (400 approx) poi file mt_st_helens.mgln Mount Saint Helens poi file washington.mgln the area where we will be plus my home town and camping ones, all together over 1800 poi programmed in different files. As I change areas, I go to my poi and select the appropriate file. Much easier doing it on my home computer Enjoy the trip We are leaving in a week for a camping road trip. And I just got the 400t. How and what kind of information did you put in your poi files? Quote Link to comment
+shutle64 Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 We are leaving in a week for a camping road trip. And I just got the 400t. How and what kind of information did you put in your poi files? With the 400T, you can go up to 2000 caches. Get another SD Card and you have another 2000 caches that can be swapped out. Use a USB SD Thumb Reader to change cache data on the road. Quote Link to comment
+ferventkids Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 We are leaving in a week for a camping road trip. And I just got the 400t. How and what kind of information did you put in your poi files? The information we put for camping trips is the caches on the route to the camp site, though many we have to pass over because of not being able to pull over while towing a trailer Then we put in all the caches in the area of the campground. Quote Link to comment
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