garmin legend question

[wikamper]

Hi,
I have been going nuts trying to find this. There was a site that I can put two address’ and it lets you download the tracks or how do i do this

[cheezehead]

Google Earth? 😕

[zoesbrother]

Are you uploading to the GPS or downloading from the GPS. If downloading to GPS Map source allows you to create routes from place to place if that helps any.

[wikamper]

I was looking for a way to put in an address I am coming from and the one I am going to and it gives me a route that I can download in to my legend I did that a couple of times last year but I cant remember how I did it.

[MikeB]

The eTrex Legend isn’t a street navigator, so pretty sure there is no way to key in your home address into it directly. When you set up your gc.com account, you DID enter your address, and they used it to figure your 10-20 so that they could let you know distance and direction to caches in your area.

So, what to do? If you want to figure distance from your home, find the coords of your house (I just stood outside my front door and marked it). After you have entered in other coords, use the “Route” feature. Each leg will have a distance and bearing associated with it.

I haven’t used routing too much, since the Legend has minimal street mapping. I often find that the routes that I set up are not consistent with roads and trails. It would be usefull to figure proximity to nearby caches, and also figuring total length of a big multi that you were setting up (“Poof!” by spiderjugs over in Bong comes to mind).

Hope that helps.

[hogrod]

you might be talking about a website like http://www.takitwithme.com/

If you have a USB garmin device you can send waypoints and routes you create with google my maps. alternatively you can download the data as a GPX file and open in mapsource or any other program to load to your gps.

here’s a link to the takeitwithme demo.

http://www.takitwithme.com/mymapshelp.html

[Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu]

I moved this topic from the “Off Topic” to “Help” so that you may get more answers to your question. 🙂

Hope this helps!!
Fu

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