Idiots guide to using a Sat Nav !!!!!!!!!!! help.

Idiots guide to using a Sat Nav !!!!!!!!!!! help.

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whirlybird

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650 posts

187 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Help, due to my sons refusal to accept that technology occasionally breaks, how can I download a pre-planned route off Google Maps to my Garmin Streetpilot c550
via my iMac, that way I can decide the better route home from Uni to Norfolk (and not the SN that takes him almost around the planet the wrong way !!!!!) I need it in layman's terms
as my total IT skills are > turn it off -----then turn it back on again !

marshalla

15,902 posts

201 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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AFAIK, for a C550, you need to download the Google Maps file, then convert it something that Mapsource can handle, then load it into Mapsource and finally transfer the route from Mapsource onto the C550.

Probably easier to just set your own via points directly on the C550 to force the route that you want.

plenty

4,680 posts

186 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Or use a free programme like TYRE or ITNConverter which use the Google Maps engine but export directly to files you can load onto a satnav device.

whirlybird

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650 posts

187 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Hi, thanks for that, BUT how do I set waypoints on the Garmin, (In layman's terms) need my son to use the M4 out of Cardiff via Swindon, Oxford, Bedford, Cambridge, to Kinks Lynn (A10), not via M5/M42,M6,A14, A141, he always gets lost around Coventry ?????

whirlybird

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650 posts

187 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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Just checked TYREtoTRAVEL, and its Windows only, and sods law I run an iMac, thought technology was here to help !!!!
Any other ideas, can't be that hard.???

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

126 months

Friday 1st August 2014
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whirlybird said:
Help, due to my sons refusal to accept that technology occasionally breaks
Solve the problem, not the symptom. "Accidentally" forget the satnav, spot a supermarket petrol station, spend £1.99 - and ask him to navigate...

whirlybird

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650 posts

187 months

Saturday 2nd August 2014
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TooMany2cvs said:
Solve the problem, not the symptom. "Accidentally" forget the satnav, spot a supermarket petrol station, spend £1.99 - and ask him to navigate...
Its his own car, so most of the time he,s travelling by himself, and when he gets lost he can't tell me where he is so I can guide him home, but at the end of the day
kids and wives will always know more than there dads and husbands, !!!!!!!!rolleyes

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

126 months

Saturday 2nd August 2014
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whirlybird said:
and when he gets lost he can't tell me where he is so I can guide him home
Again, there's an easy answer to that...