I have about 100 waypoints with coordinates on scratch paper. I have a Garmin 541s chartplotter/GPS. I want to enter the waypoints into the Garmin without sitting in my boat for numerous hours doing so. Can anyone recommend a free program that is very, very elementary and has good, simple directions as I am "computer illiterate"? Thanking you in advance, Bob
What I do is take my piece of paper on the boat, go to the coordinates on my list and when I get there, hit MOB 2X and create the waypoint on the harming.
Only other way is manually entering them, and that takes fricken foreeeeeeevveeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr!
Wish I knew an easier way but I don't.
It's been awhile since I have played around with this stuff. You may want to just give Garminwaypoint a call and ask for recommended, compatible software for pushing way points from your computer to your device.
There should be several options, but I would try
-MapSource® Trip and Waypoint Manager
First.
Good luck!
Page 46 might help.
http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/GPSMAP431_OwnersManual.pdf (http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/GPSMAP431_OwnersManual.pdf)
GPS Track maker
Free app
http://www.trackmaker.com/main/index.php/en-us/menupagedownloadfree-en
upload and download to garmin devices
cheers
Hi guys not been on for a while on my smaller boat ive a Garmin 2006c and on my new bigger boat ive just Fitted it with all Lowrance Electrics H D S Gen 3 7 & 9 Link 8 all linked using the Nmea 2000 System even the engine Suzuki DF140 is linked up is there a way i can transfer the Coordinates from the garmin to a S/D card that fits into the H D S units i have Garmin map source on my computer and the the transformer so that i can transfer waypoints from the 2006c to the computer and vice versa do i just need a card reader and a blank S D card ? tight lines Alain
Garmin Homeport is a free download from Garmin. It lets you do everything on your computer.