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Calomax
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:59 pm    Post subject: TomTom and Google Maps Reply with quote

I used to find locations on Google Maps and send them to my Go, but now I just get a choice of Garmin, Insignia, or Navigon. does anyone know where send to TomTom has gone please?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Google and TomTom had a falling out some time ago and one result is the link to TomTom has now been removed, as you've noticed.

You can try www.routes.tomtom.com
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

You can also use tyre

http://www.tyretotravel.com/
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you. Shame we have to suffer for them, I've tried TomTom routes and Tyre but can't really come to grips with them. I had found a location on Google Maps using the satellite view but can't find it on a map.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Google Maps Help says...
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If you want to get the coordinates of a location you see on Google Maps, just right-click the location then select What's here?. The coordinates will appear in the search box.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Denis, that's the solution. You're not just a pretty face Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I'm slim and got so many teeth I don't know what to do with them!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He isn't even a pretty face. But thanks for the tip Dennis Very Happy . I didn't know that Rolling Eyes .
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't know it either - just flipped a coin and tried the Help button and there it was. At the end of the day, it's really thanks to Calomax - but he's probably ugly, fat, toothless and a girl. Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been creating Google map locations for some years now and using a GMAPtoGPX web link to rip the co-ordinates from the Google Map into a KML file. The KML file can open automatically in POI Edit program (on PC anyway) and then all the map locations from the map can be converted into a POI file that you copy onto your TomTom or Garmin etc (choose output format in POI Edit).
Works really well for me and I'm sharing customer site locations with others in our company so we can all benefit from having our site locations as POI's on nav units.

Look at http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/

For the GMAPtoGPX conversion bit.
Sound difficult but it works really well and pretty quick after a bit of practice. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In GoogleMAps I use the LatLng marker tool. Next to DennisN's Help button it says "MapsLabs", click on this, select LatLng and save. By right clicking on the map you can then drop a marker with the Lat & Long, the values of which can be copied and pasted.

For me, the beauty of this is that you can have many markers on the map at any one time allowing you to plan a route and order the POIs to suit your journey.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AliOnHols wrote:
In GoogleMAps I use the LatLng marker tool. Next to DennisN's Help button it says "MapsLabs", click on this, select LatLng and save. By right clicking on the map you can then drop a marker with the Lat & Long, the values of which can be copied and pasted.

For me, the beauty of this is that you can have many markers on the map at any one time allowing you to plan a route and order the POIs to suit your journey.


I've been using that too AliOnHols, since long before I found out about the "What's here?" method.

As you say, it's great as you can add several markers at once. And you can also copy and paste the numbers from them too.

But do you find it annoying that the little "tail" on the speech bubble doesn't actually point ot the exact spot you clicked on? The numbers seem right for the actual spot, it's just the graphic thats a bit out.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy_P wrote:
.................But do you find it annoying that the little "tail" on the speech bubble doesn't actually point ot the exact spot you clicked on? The numbers seem right for the actual spot, it's just the graphic thats a bit out.
Agreed, it's a little disconcerting but I think you are correct in saying that the values are accurate. If you zoom in on the marker, it gets closer and closer to the location you dropped it at but never quite actually gets there.

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Reminds me of my maths teacher and his pet spider explaining calculus to the class. The teacher placed his (imaginary) spider in the centre of the table, everyday the spider would walk half of the remaining distance to the edge. The spider would never, ever reach the edge of the table. In fact, we would all die sooner.

Don't know why but I have always remembered that. Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah. But if you introduce an infinitive time scale, he will reach the edge
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not if he walks off at right angles to it.
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