Re: Upload addresses to GPS

Thanks, David.

It's a fixed set of 258 addresses. The deliveries will vary by day and
week (ie, not a set "route"). Our idea is a 1-time upload to the GPS.
During the actual delivering, if the driver needs directions to the next
delivery location, simply bring it up and away we go. After a couple of
months it probably won't be needed.

That bring up another question. Can a GPS be set to follow truck routes?
A quick google seems to say yes.


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:02 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/28/2012 11:57 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

Anyone have any experience uploading addresses into a GPS? Easy? Hard?

Depends.

Most modern GPSs have some kind of software to allow you to upload data &
routes.

Garmin has a browser plug-in that let's you send way-points (not routes)
to the GPS from Google Maps.

If you need to do this under program control, the GPS interface is fairly
standardized (I think), so you should be able to find libraries to assist
with the transfer.

david

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