Garmin nuvi 660 and treks!

I have a 660 and love it. So far I haven't been able to work out how to load the Shonkeymaps I've already downloaded (free) to my PC here at home. There is some convoluted knack to it that I just do not have. Once I can get my good mate Muddy Doe up here at some stage, I will ask him politely to get it going for me.

In the meantime, I have found that the inbuilt maps are quite adequate for 90% of my driving needs.

On a recent trip to NSW, I had the screen set to monitor the speed/trip times/average speeds and maximum speed etc.

Great unit indeed

Cheers

Roachie

Al
I reackon you should find all you need here

GPS Info


Doug

Al,

I have a 660. Absolutely love it. It works great in combination with Camps 4 book.

Try this site: http://www.gpsoz.com.au/

and our own much loved Doug T (QLD):

http://www.doug-and-dusty.id.au/maps.htm

Tracks4Australia are the maps you need but, like others, I haven't got around to putting it on mine yet.

Honestly, Doug is the guru on Garmin.

Aussie Al,
Good luck fellow investor, seems like you may be on a winner.
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JH

Hi Aussie Al,

I have the Nuvi 660 and also a Garmin V. The Nuvi is great if only using the built-in maps for navigating to a location, but you cannot upload routes or have a cookiecrumb trail.

If you want to make up your own routes with waypoints etc... then I recommend you look at the Garmin Quest (later version of the Garmin V). While its screen is nowhere as big nor a touchscreen like the Nuvi, it has a cookiecrumb trail, ability to store 1,000's of waypoints, tracks and routes and is IMHO a more versatile unit for 4WDing.

Additionally, it has all the functionality of the Nuvi (GPS wise, not bluetooth connection type features) thus has the built-in maps, navigating, POI's (points of interest) etc...

Cheers

Captain

Hi Aussie

Its a great unit alright,perhaps the best around town, but the Garmin 276c is the better one for 4wding / fishing etc.

The accuracy of mapping is always a compromise and both the 660 & 276c take the same maps.

The normal way of finding and recording your favourite places is to drive around recording your own track whilst roughly following the inbuilt maps.

When you find places you save them as waypoints.

You then download these tracks/waypoints to your own PC and build up your own collection.

You can also downloads these paths from other sources ,like this site, into your 276c.


Robin Miller

Thanks very much to you all, this is the first time I have posted a question and it's great to have feedback from you experienced folks out there! Thanks again!

Aussie Al