Garmin/tomtom On A Mac

Thought I would give the new TomTom 40 a go, as the old Garmin Zumo 220 stayed on the last bike.

For the Mac, Garmin has some brilliant software called Garmin Road Trip. On this you can call up points of interest on your computer, Hotels, Campsites, cash machines - all sorts of things

So you can call up a load of campsites and hotels along your route, and send them to the Garmin Sat Nav. Then when you are on the road you can call these up - press Go To and away you go to the next campsite or hotel. Brilliant.

The new TomTom 40 does not appear to have any comparable software for finding hotels and campsites, that I can download onto the Mac. On the next Europe trip I think I will have to take my little Garmin eTrex GPS with these already loaded, and use the GPS coordinates from that.

So please let me know if I have missed something !

Thanks

Thought I would give the new TomTom 40 a go, as the old Garmin Zumo 220 stayed on the last bike.

For the Mac, Garmin has some brilliant software called Garmin Road Trip. On this you can call up points of interest on your computer, Hotels, Campsites, cash machines - all sorts of things

So you can call up a load of campsites and hotels along your route, and send them to the Garmin Sat Nav. Then when you are on the road you can call these up - press Go To and away you go to the next campsite or hotel. Brilliant.

The new TomTom 40 does not appear to have any comparable software for finding hotels and campsites, that I can download onto the Mac. On the next Europe trip I think I will have to take my little Garmin eTrex GPS with these already loaded, and use the GPS coordinates from that.

So please let me know if I have missed something !

Thanks

I don't think you have missed anything at all. TomTom as a whole isn't very MAC friendly. I have had a TomTom for my car for years and have to use a Windows 7 partition though BootCamp just to update it. I borrowed a new TomTom Go from my parents and it has the same problem, nothing I can do at all with it while in Apple OS.

I REALLY like their new Motorcycle GPS system, but according to TomTom OSX compatibility isn't something coming in the future. Sad, but that holds me back from getting a TomTom anytime soon (even though I have ways around it).

Good luck!

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TYRE is very good for TomTom as it uses Google Maps as its base, from which you can find almost anything. Not sure if there is an Apple-compatible version though.

Thanks for your comments, looks like a bit of a dead end. TyreTotravel looks like it has potential but saw no mention of Mac, only Explorer.

Anyway see how I get along with it this summer - if no good I will chuck it in the sea :biggrin:

For making tracks or planning of routes I've used a website that was tested by a few members on the site - http://www.motogoloco.com/

It uses googlemaps to do route planning and you can download GPX files to put on your GPS unit.

I'm on a Mac and it works perfectly. If you look at tutorials on how to add GPX files to your GPS you'll be all set.

For making tracks or planning of routes I've used a website that was tested by a few members on the site - http://www.motogoloco.com/

It uses googlemaps to do route planning and you can download GPX files to put on your GPS unit.

I'm on a Mac and it works perfectly. If you look at tutorials on how to add GPX files to your GPS you'll be all set.

Thanks for the link, I will have a look at it.

What I really like about the Garmin Road Trip software is that you can call up all the campsites and hotels along your route and send them to your device. I just do a "FIND" command for hotels or campsites and load the ones I want as waypoints or POIs.

You can set up a folder for each trip. This one is the Norway Trip from 2013 with a string of campsites highlighted along the route - the detail has been dialed down so as to show the little campsite markers - works a treat.

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What I really like about the Garmin Road Trip software is that you can call up all the campsites and hotels along your route and send them to your device.

I wish Basecamp had this function too.

What I really like about the Garmin Road Trip software is that you can call up all the campsites and hotels along your route and send them to your device.

I wish Basecamp had this function too.

Never used the Basecamp bit of the software, only the Road Trip bit !

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The new TomTom 40 is working out ok.

Get the old Google maps up on the computer screen and look for campsites, where you want to go. If you get one on the computer screen - look in the address bar at the top, where it says www google............ and it will show the GPS coordinates in the among all the letters an numbers.

The GPS coordines are given as simple 1.23456  -6.5432 Then enter this in the new TomTom as a place call it campsite xyz and it is saved.

What I particularly like about the new TomTom 40 is that these saved places are visible on the screen right across the zoom range. So you can see a good overall of the whole of Spain, and then zoom into the individual sites. My old Garmin Zumo 220 would loose these at various levels of zoom - you would have to keep zooming in and out to find things. Maybe the new garmins are different, but I remember it being a pain in the ass.

Anyway, a few campsites entered using GBP coordinates from google maps.

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