February 1, 2009 08:11
Hi There,
See my thread(s) under the banner transferring waypoints to the NEW garmin GPS
I have two--a 520 qnd a 520 S--
YES you CAN upload waypoints to these units via an SD card IF you go through a somewhat complicated process to prepare the card BUT these units DO NOT use .GPX format---rather Garmins proprietary .ADM . SO you can only get the waypoints into the GPS by FIRST saving them to GPX THEN importing them into Garmins Trip and Waypoint manager(which will convert them to ADM. THEN re-export them to the SD card and finally upload them to the GPS.
All well and good EXCEPT: 1. Trip and waypoint MGR is ONLY Windows based and 2. Garmin told me that they have stopped support on the program even though they still offer it on the web site---
They have their latest version of MAPSOURCE which will do the job BUT you must first have Trio installed in order to get the map source update.
I have been speaking to Garmin about solving this for over a year and they are not really that interested. You dont want to now what they really said.
All we are trying to do is a simple thing like upload a few waypoints into a GPS. Even in the Windows evnviornment it is needessly comlicated
Sounds complicated? You bet. Needlessly so.
Would love to use mac ENC but even though ENC will work with garmions Road Trip ---Road trip will not interface with the 520--- GPS Babel does not (as yet) support ADM.
Again spoke to Garmin about it and they just laughed--"Why would you want to do that?"
As soon as i make landfall in new Zealand i intend to sell these and install something else.
See my thread(s) under the banner transferring waypoints to the NEW garmin GPS
I have two--a 520 qnd a 520 S--
YES you CAN upload waypoints to these units via an SD card IF you go through a somewhat complicated process to prepare the card BUT these units DO NOT use .GPX format---rather Garmins proprietary .ADM . SO you can only get the waypoints into the GPS by FIRST saving them to GPX THEN importing them into Garmins Trip and Waypoint manager(which will convert them to ADM. THEN re-export them to the SD card and finally upload them to the GPS.
All well and good EXCEPT: 1. Trip and waypoint MGR is ONLY Windows based and 2. Garmin told me that they have stopped support on the program even though they still offer it on the web site---
They have their latest version of MAPSOURCE which will do the job BUT you must first have Trio installed in order to get the map source update.
I have been speaking to Garmin about solving this for over a year and they are not really that interested. You dont want to now what they really said.
All we are trying to do is a simple thing like upload a few waypoints into a GPS. Even in the Windows evnviornment it is needessly comlicated
Sounds complicated? You bet. Needlessly so.
Would love to use mac ENC but even though ENC will work with garmions Road Trip ---Road trip will not interface with the 520--- GPS Babel does not (as yet) support ADM.
Again spoke to Garmin about it and they just laughed--"Why would you want to do that?"
As soon as i make landfall in new Zealand i intend to sell these and install something else.