One of the things I was annoyed with is that I have to enter the address in my GPS manually. I didn’t find anything that will "send" the address to GPS from my computer. For my upcoming trip to Hawaii, I wanted to add lot of addresses, and typing them in would be pain. So while playing with Google maps I found this neat trick.
- Connect you GPS to the computer (using USB)
- Browse to Google maps and find your address, this is particularly useful when you are planning your trip online. In such a case you can find the address online, and locate it in Google maps.
- Now click that "Send" link
- Clicking on send will bring up this box:
- Choose GPS and the brand. For now it’s only available for Garmin, Pioneer and TomTom.
- Click send. This will take you to get GPS manufacturer page which will do the remaining.
- Done.
This saved me a lot of time. If you own a Garmin device, you can also read about it here. In case you own a BMW or Merc, you can send it to the car as well.
