Help with google earth / garmin road trip

[CrashOverride]

Hi, first up i'm sorry if i've missed something here but I have used the search and spent 2 hours looking on google and I'm at my wits end. I have just bought a Zumo 660 and I'm trying to use google earth to find places and then transfer the co ordinates to garmin road trip but all the settings have me confused.

1 ) in google earth do I want to use

decimal degrees
degrees minutes seconds
degrees decimal minutes
universal transverse mercator

2) in road trip

do i want hddd.ddddd

or hddd.mm.mmm

all i want is matching coordinates so i can look things up on google earth, see the coordinates and type them into garmin road trip, please help me

 

[(RIP) Shenzi]

Doesn't the 660 come with Mapsource? If it does toggle between that and Google Earth.

 

[Bear]

I spent a fortnight exchanging emails with a clown at Garmin regarding sending points from Google Maps to a Nuvi 660. The clown eventually apologised for not realising that is is possible (it says so on Garmin's website) but he could not tell me how to use the facility. By experiment I found that I needed Garmin Communicator (a plug-in for Internet Explorer, also used for updating Garmin firmware) and that what could be sent was the result of a search of Google maps. If you open Google maps and navigate to somewhere then you can email the location but that's it. If you search for somewhere you can then send it to a GPS device. When you have found the place you want (by searching for it) then click Send (envelope icon at top right of screen) then GPS and you should be in business.

 

[CrashOverride]

First of all thankyou

Shenzi - I dont appear to have mapsource, only roadtrip which appears to be a new version?

Bear - Thankks a thousand times, that works, my sanity returns

Cheers James

 

[Bear]

It taxed my sanity for a long time. Glad to help.

 

[HMR]

Install Mapsource to begin with. I'ts on the DVD that came with the box. Mapsource is the tool to create/manage/store/upload/download/share routes/wayoints/tracks to/from the PC and the GPS.