Garmin gps60 connected to PC

Yes there is a discontinued Garmin software product called nRoute that allows your laptop to sue your gps to provide realtime info onto any mapsource map, as well as provide voice prompting and auto-routing etc.

This is a discontinued product since I guess some lawyer figured that using a laptop while driving was a bad idea. NRoute is available online if you google around for it though.

Mapsource comes on a cd and is just installed like any other program. Then you access it from the start menu. Once you make your routes or poi's you connect the nuvi with the usb cable and upload.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the self-extracting archive file for your Streetpilot c330 onto your hard drive.
2. Connect your Streetpilot c330 to a free USB port on your PC with the correct PC interface cable.
3. Unzip the files in the archive by running the downloaded executable file.
4. Follow the instructions provided by the launched update application on your computer.

Get the update here:
http://www8.garmin.com/software/StreetPilotc330_610.exe

You connect the 2720 to your pc with the supplied usb cable.
Power up the 2720 with the ac supply cable.
Then run the garmin webupdater. It will do the update.

You must have previously installed the webupdater and the usb drivers. If you use the garmin mapsource software and can connect to the 2720, to transfer waypoints, tracks, etc., then the usb drivers are already installed.

You can download the webupdater at this site:
http://www8.garmin.com/products/webupdater/howtoinstall.jsp

Hope this helps.

You can download tracks and waypoints via EasyGPS for free, or ExpertGPS or Garmin Mapsource. These programmes will transfer waypoints, tracks and routes to your PC.
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Tried updating your Garmin USB (or maybe serial) driver?

Currently, the POI Loader only supports CSV files because that is the format that most data vendors support. POI Loader may support additional formats in the future.

MapSource only supports .mps, .gdb and .gpx files. You can save files as .txt files if you wish to use this data in other applications.

Sadly Garmin does not produce any software which can convert .txt files.

However, this maybe possible with GPS Utility. Please note GPS Utility is not Garmin software and Garmin does not support this. Click on the following link for more information:

www.gpsu.co.uk

There is freeware out there provided by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources that allows Garmin users to download their data in a number of different format. Search "DNRGarmin GPS Application" and follow the instructions. This is great for GIS user because it will download to a shapefile.

It has the ability to upload some data, as well. Although, I suspect there are fewer options for uploading data than, say, Mapsource.

yeah , i am with garmin 196, and usb to rs232 cable and instaled driver, but it wont connect ..... anybody help ?

Actually, I just solved the problem myself...

I went to Garmin's driver download site (http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=591) and got the latest USB driver (2.2.1) for the 60C. (Although, it appears that that driver pertains to all Garmin products, not just the GPSmap series or the 60C.) Installation instructions are pretty much standard for Windows drivers, so it's easy.

That: a) Garmin requires special USB drivers for their product is finicky (most USB-connectable products just connect automatically using Windows' generic USB driver), and b) my unit -- which had always worked just fine, and suddenly stopped connecting out of the blue -- remains a mystery. Nonetheless, a driver upgrade was the final step that I needed. (Although, I also swapped USB cables and upgraded MapSource, too, so maybe it's some combination of those things.)