Nuvi 660 with Oziexplorer

Doug,
I take it by your reply you don't know either.
Marty.

now Doug be nice.

Doug,
You are talking in riddles, I asked if anyone could help setting a Nuvi on Oziexplorer. You have replied twice and not once offered any helpful advice. i actually don't care what you do or don't know if you aren't willing to offer any helpful advice what are you replying for?
Marty.

Marty what I think Doug was eluding to is that Garmin products do not support Oziexplorer.

Hi Duncan,
I have a garmin Etrex Legend CX & it works fine with Oziexplorer. Freind turned up at work with this Nuvi.
I think Doug is an idiot, who else would make multiple posts without offering any decent advice. Maybe i would have better luck talking to his dog.

Marty.

Duncan
Correct, exactly what I meant, and had to go out for a while, Now I come back and see he called me an Idiot, so bugger him, I won't help him now,

.

I knew you'd say that. Help out others who have a Garmin then and would be interested in an answer or solution as you are the Guru when it comes to all things Garmin.

Gee Doug,
What a pity, three posts now & you haven't offered any help yet.
Here's a better idea, no more replies from you.
Marty.

MartyB
As you wish .

Like I said ..you called me an Idiot then want me to give information ...C'mon ,

See ya .

.

Actually Doug,
After calling you an idiot I didn't expect you to give me an info. What i don't understand is why you bothered to make 2 posts in my thread without offering any decent advice.

Marty.

Isn't this how vendettas/feuds 'n wars start ???

A somewhat injudicious response, followed by an understandable mis-understanding ????

C'mon fellas ....

Marty

If you had done a search you would have found, that Doug is a guru on all thing Garmin.

having said that, Dougs first post would have made perfect sense and would have been all the info you needed.

Doug has his way of putting things across, sometimes not as subtle as others, but there was no need to call him an idiot.

Try an apology and see what happens.

Cheers Steve.

And there is nothing wrong with Oziexplorer maps,

Skippy,
Thanks for the rely, sounds like we will have to come up with another option then.

Marty.

MartyB

If you re read Doug's initial reply to your post he has given you the answer and the solution. He said you are waisting your time, The Nuvii's wont interface with ozi. The link he has provided IS the solution. Its called oztropo v2. Me thinks you should have read his message properly before you started name calling.

Peter

There are are actually two solutions and which one is best is dependant on the users requirements - which we dont know.

Solution 1 - As Doug suggested, give up on OziExplorer and use maps currently availabelf or NUVI - OzTopoV2 being best currenly available for out of town areas. After all the NUVI is a large screen Map enable GPS unit, though they apparently have some limitations.

Solution 2 - throw the NUVI in the bin and get a GPS that does interface with OziExplorer.OziExplorer can use a wide range of maps and airphotos so maybe better suited for intended purpose though novelty of lugging a laptop around can wear off quick. PDA with OziCE ican solve this issue and is another option which is used by many.

Cheers
Greg

I have tried many ways and I can't get any signal from the Nuvi's antenna , I don't think it will share and I made a mistake before
about only Mapsource will allow the moving maps from the Nuvi , This is incorrect.

With the Nuvi receivers you can't upload or download waypoints, tracks, or routes from the Oziexplorer software

>With the Nuvi receivers you can't upload or download waypoints,
>tracks, or routes from the Oziexplorer software

Interesting. That make the Nuvi range, and possibly future Garmin products, useless to all Ozi Explorer users it would seem. A strange path for Garmin to follow unless they have another agenda in regard to locking users in?

Having gone through the pain of converting all my waypoints, map notes etc from one mapping software package to Ozi I do not intend to repeat the process. Guess I'll stick with my $66 GPS Mouse and Ozi.

Mike Harding

Hello - Maybe they just havent been added to the list of supported products in OziExplorer - NUVI waypoint management is different to most "standard" handheld Garmins. Apparently you can upload and download waypoints using Mapsource. You also do this with OziExplorer by saving the waypoint in a GPX format file named Temp.gpx and placing in appropriate folder on the NUVI - it then gets combined with the existing waypoints of the device (note: I haven tried this just educated guess based on using Colorado which has similar file sttructure apparently). Not sure about tracks - heard uploading tracks can not be done on some (all?) NUVIs.

Anyway - dont think its the end of the line for Garmin they produce a range of GPS units for various purposes - most current handheld model work with OziExplorer fine.
Cheers
Greg