New to Sat Nav

JimmyNorth · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: New to Sat Nav

I wonder if anyone could offer some help. I am totally new to Sat Nav

I have purchased a Garmin Nuvi 705 with east european maps for a bike trip I will be undertaking starting this Sunday coming. I will be visiting Germany. Slovenia, Croatia, Dolimite region, Austrian Tyrol regions and I have stored the hotel locations onto the Sat Nav's favourites facility so I will at least be able to navigate to each location I will be staying.

I however want to learn how to put a custom route into the system sy when I will be in the Dolomites so I can do a circular trip from the hotel which will take me over some of the mountain passes. How do I do this on the system I have. Its something to do with custom routes. Can someone point me to an online user guide which would tell me how to customise a route.

Many Thanks

sussamb · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject:

Download the manual here:

http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/2721_OwnersManual.pdf

and look at page 13 Smile

JimmyNorth · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks Sassamb. I managed to find the manual tonight and have been reading through.

I have managed to save all my hotel locations as favourites so at least I won't get lost going from one to another. I really want to plan a few circular routes when I am in the Dolomites and don't know how to do this. Whats the easiest way to do this here whilst I'm still at home and have use of my PC ?

Any help/guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks

sussamb · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:40 am Post subject:

Download Basecamp from Garmin and you can then plan routes on that and send to your nuvi, off on hols today for a couple of weeks so good luck Smile

JimmyNorth · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:15 pm Post subject:

Thanks for this. Enjoy your hols. I'm off this Sunday.

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