Re: Upload addresses to GPS

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garmin makes a GPS specifically for trucks with the truck routes 
identified.  I believe there are states were the use of a truck enabled 
GPS is written into law for commercial vehicles, ( New York comes to 
mind right away due to the bridges etc. )

It is a higher cost unit but not significantly so.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 3/28/2012 12:20 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> Thanks, David.
>
> It's a fixed set of 258 addresses.  The deliveries will vary by day and
> week (ie, not a set "route").  Our idea is a 1-time upload to the GPS.
>   During the actual delivering, if the driver needs directions to the next
> delivery location, simply bring it up and away we go.  After a couple of
> months it probably won't be needed.
>
> That bring up another question.  Can a GPS be set to follow truck routes?
>   A quick google seems to say yes.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:02 PM, David Gibbs<david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > >  On 3/28/2012 11:57 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> > > >  >  Anyone have any experience uploading addresses into a GPS?  Easy?  Hard?
> > >
> > >  Depends.
> > >
> > >  Most modern GPSs have some kind of software to allow you to upload data&
> > >  routes.
> > >
> > >  Garmin has a browser plug-in that let's you send way-points (not routes)
> > >  to the GPS from Google Maps.
> > >
> > >  If you need to do this under program control, the GPS interface is fairly
> > >  standardized (I think), so you should be able to find libraries to assist
> > >  with the transfer.
> > >
> > >  david
> > >
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