I've purchased Streets and Trips and love the way a route can be customized to show the way I want to go rather than the way the GPS routing wants to go. BUT, I cannot figure out how to download the route(s) to my Garmin nuvi 2595! Any advice and counsel regarding the procedure to use in downloading will be greatly appreciated. / Larry

Do you have the Garmin Communicator Plugin installed? If so highlight your destination on your trip route and then select "send to GPS device" on the toolbar. If you do not have an MSN Direct service you must use a USB connection. You can get detailed directions using the S&T Help button. Search for Send Route to GPS Device.

I use waypoints to program the Garmin the way I want to go and print the streets and trips out. I have been wondering if sending streets to the Garmin will take up space as I have already added a card to the GPS.

RV Geeks On Tour use to have a excellent video tutorial available, but like everything else good, it appears you now have to pay and join their membership forum to access it. And there is no guarantee that it is still available. Use to be free on the web, and still may be but I can find it.Laptop GPS World has a forum devoted to Streets and Trips. You might find something there.I gave up doing what you want to do and got a 12" laptop that I use for my Streets & Trips GPS. It is mounted on a small laptop swinging stand. Does double duty as computer and GPS. That is a speaker sticking up on top of the screen. It could be moved somewhere else. I just leave the Garmin Nuvi in the toad.

I will not bother you with how to do something I have never done or researched but ... I will ask a question.Why put up with that tiny little screen on your GARMIN when the screen on this laptop in front of me is 15.6" wide and my netbook is about 12 inches wide? I mean the much larger screen means I can see way better when I'm on/off route, I can scan it in a glance and what's more if I want to make a change it is WAY WAY easier typing on a keyboard (But you know that).My Garmin.. Well.. i don't much use it any more.

Or, you can do what we do... I outgrew S&T years ago and while it is stupid easy to download the route to the Garmin we keep on the dash, I found it to be simpler to just set the Garmin up for that day's run, or maybe even just the first stop of the day. This is easier as I have used the navigator to plan the entire excursion and that is often outside the capability of the little stand-alone GPS. Once there, clear that route and set the next. As we are travelers and not so much campers, we do a lot of avoiding well traveled roads and the Garmin just can't be made to understand that we don't want to take the big road. Besides, this doesn't require getting out any other cables and lets you see what Mr. Garmin is thinking is good.Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles KuraltMatt

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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Jan 22, 2014
I will not bother you with how to do something I have never done or researched but ... I will ask a question.

Why put up with that tiny little screen on your GARMIN when the screen on this laptop in front of me is 15.6" wide and my netbook is about 12 inches wide? I mean the much larger screen means I can see way better when I'm on/off route, I can scan it in a glance and what's more if I want to make a change it is WAY WAY easier typing on a keyboard (But you know that).

My Garmin.. Well.. i don't much use it any more.
wny_pat1
Explorer
Jan 22, 2014
RV Geeks On Tour use to have a excellent video tutorial available, but like everything else good, it appears you now have to pay and join their membership forum to access it. And there is no guarantee that it is still available. Use to be free on the web, and still may be but I can find it.

Laptop GPS World has a forum devoted to Streets and Trips. You might find something there.

I gave up doing what you want to do and got a 12" laptop that I use for my Streets & Trips GPS. It is mounted on a small laptop swinging stand. Does double duty as computer and GPS. That is a speaker sticking up on top of the screen. It could be moved somewhere else. I just leave the Garmin Nuvi in the toad.
Bea_PA
Explorer
Jan 22, 2014
I use waypoints to program the Garmin the way I want to go and print the streets and trips out. I have been wondering if sending streets to the Garmin will take up space as I have already added a card to the GPS.
justlou
Explorer
Jan 22, 2014
Do you have the Garmin Communicator Plugin installed? If so highlight your destination on your trip route and then select "send to GPS device" on the toolbar. If you do not have an MSN Direct service you must use a USB connection. You can get detailed directions using the S&T Help button. Search for Send Route to GPS Device.

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