Re: Upload addresses to GPS

Garmin makes a GPS specifically for trucks with the truck routes identified. I believe there are states were the use of a truck enabled GPS is written into law for commercial vehicles, ( New York comes to mind right away due to the bridges etc. )

It is a higher cost unit but not significantly so.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 3/28/2012 12:20 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

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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