Which gps?

John,

I emailed you a .gpx file I first created as a route in S&T and then converted to .gpx using your instructions. I am curious to know if anyone can create a route using S&T (or any other program that can created a .gpx route) and email it to someone to use in their Garmin device which is capable of doing this? Then someone could ask what route someone else took and the route could be emailed as a .gpx to be used in their Garmin. Could work?

Here are the simple steps to use MS S & T to plan a route.
1. After you save your file in S & T, click DATA and Export to GPX file

Yep, I get it - with one slight modification.....

Here are the simple steps to use MS S & T to plan a route.
1. After you save your file in S & T,

You must close the open S&T and then open it again using the save file . . . Then.......

click DATA and Export to GPX file

Maybe opening S&T again any way will work but using the open version used to save the file does not show me an option in Data to Export to .gpx.........

You need to save the route you created first in S & T, then you can create the .GPX file.

Thanks John,

One small thing. I had S&T open and planned the route and saved it and then tried to convert to .gpx with S&T still open but the Export .gpx function was not functioning in Data. I closed S&T and then opened it again using the saved file. Now Data showed the Export function working and I was able to save as a .gpx. Moving the new .gpx file to the Garmin was as easy as you explained. So far I only did a simple route but will try more complicated routes one of these days. Thanks for your tips. Whenever possible I will still be using S&T to plan our routes but we can then use the planned routes in the new Garmin when we use the car.

Brian. I think it will work well for you.

Here are the simple steps to use MS S & T to plan a route.
1. After you save your file in S & T, click DATA and Export to GPX file
2. Save it using the same trip name.GPX
3. Plug the Garmin into the computer using tiny port on bottom of GPS to your USB port
4. With Garmin plugged into the USB port on your computer, you should see Nuvi2797/internal storage/GPX
4. Paste the GPX file that you created into that folder.
5. Now to find the trip on the Garmin, on your first screen don't hit "Where to" or "View Map", select Apps/trip Planner, you should see the trip that you just saved. Select it.
Note if you are not at that starting point it first tries to route you to your starting point.

Make sure your Garmin Express is updated to V2.2.21 and your software Version is updated to 3.8, GPS firmware is 3.03.04

I broke down and bought the Garmin 2757LM. What a huge improvement over our old Garmin. Easier. Faster. Haven't gotten a whole lot of experience with it yet as we have only had it a week or so. And we have only been using it around Colorado. As with all GPS units I have seen it still makes mistakes and routes us on ways we can't figure out why it would go that way. But we can easily look at the whole route and make corrections before we head out - which should be done with all GPS units. This was very difficult or next to impossible to do with our old Garmin. Now it is easy. There are many new features. The larger screen is also a huge improvement. I have not yet tried route planning with Streets & Trips to send to the Garmin but hope to get that figured out soon. We bought ours direct from Garmin as everywhere we looked had the same price but Garmin had free shipping. Priced at about $220 I am thinking at this point it was a great buy. I may find reasons not to like it over time but so far I think we are going to be much happier using this for our car trips than we were with the old Garmin.

I want to point out that newer TomToms that use "MyTomTom" as the interface will not accept .itn route files. Only the older TomToms that use "TomTom Home" can utilize them.

As far as I can see there is NO WAY to save a route in "MyTomTom" devices.

Stay with Garmin, much friendlier software.

http://www.tyretotravel.com/

Sure it is a free program called Tyre LINK

Not had a chance to play much with it yet. I loaded in a .gpx file then re-saved it as a tom Tom .itn file. Seemed to work. Now if I had a Tom Tom to test it with.

A bit of research revealed a free program to convert Garmin .gpx files to Tom Tom format.

Any chance you might share this info with the Tom Tom users out there - what it is and where to get it is what forums are all about.