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Posted by ps56k on May 14, 2008, 4:19 pm


zydecogary wrote:
>> I put my nüvi 650 into "Pedestrian" mode, went to a couple of
>> gravesites in a cemetery and saved the locations of each in my
>> Favorites.
>> How can I get the coordinates for each of these locations that I
>> saved? The obvious way is to go back to each location in person, and
>> copy down the coordinates from the satellite signal strength display
>> screen. Is there some other way to get the coordinates without
>> physically going back there?
> As long as you saved the locations as Favorites you can easily read
> the coordinates right from your nuvi.
> Briefly, (with looking for satellites off (antenna down with some
> models)) the simple technique is to do a 'Set Loc' on your favorite,
> go to the main menu, tap the upper left corner to get to the Satellite
> Page and read the coodinates at the lower left corner. It's easy.
> See my article for a discussion
> WHERE IS THAT PLACE? BY THE NUMBERS - Coordinates of a DIFFERENT
> Position
> on the Garmin GPS Tricks, Tips, Work Arounds, Hints, Secrets and Ideas
> WEB site
> http://snipurl.com/garmin_gps_tricks
> Gary Hayman

it would appear that the firmware and operating features
vary from series to series, and even models within the same series.

ie - my Garmin Nuvi 260 does not have the satellite corner "feature",
and yet I think someone with the 260w indicated his worked...
The menus may also be slightly different.

Anyway - once the Garmin website gets back up and running from "maint" mode,
I'm going to send that question off to support....



Posted by Gene H. Chan on May 14, 2008, 6:33 pm


e43f9cb0cee9@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

> As long as you saved the locations as Favorites you can easily read
> the coordinates right from your nuvi.
>
> Briefly, (with looking for satellites off (antenna down with some
> models)) the simple technique is to do a 'Set Loc' on your favorite,
> go to the main menu, tap the upper left corner to get to the Satellite
> Page and read the coodinates at the lower left corner. It's easy.
>
> See my article for a discussion
>
> WHERE IS THAT PLACE? BY THE NUMBERS - Coordinates of a DIFFERENT
> Position
>
> on the Garmin GPS Tricks, Tips, Work Arounds, Hints, Secrets and Ideas
> WEB site
>
> http://snipurl.com/garmin_gps_tricks
>
> Gary Hayman
>

Thank you. When I posed my original question, I had in mind some
technique like the one you describe. I *did* get it to work, although
it's not quite obvious how to get from selecting a "Favorites" location
to getting to "Set Loc" for it. (select the Favorite location; "Go";
zoom out the map; scroll map to get the target location on screen, zoom
in the map; put the arrow pointer on the target location while in the
tightest level zoom; "Set Loc"; go back to Main Menu; go to "Where To?";
go to "Coordinates").

Now I have two methods to get the coordinates for a location in my
Favorites.

Thanks to you and Jack.

Posted by ps56k on May 16, 2008, 2:53 pm


Gene H. Chan wrote:
> I put my nüvi 650 into "Pedestrian" mode, went to a couple of
> gravesites in a cemetery and saved the locations of each in my
> Favorites.
> How can I get the coordinates for each of these locations that I
> saved? The obvious way is to go back to each location in person, and
> copy down the coordinates from the satellite signal strength display
> screen. Is there some other way to get the coordinates without
> physically going back there?

here's what I received from Garmin -
hmmm - a GPS that can't display GPS coords, go figure....
Not much help for a rural or camping situation when you have a location
and want to tell someone to meet you there - but can't give them the
coords...
I have a Garmin 12 for camping, and the Nuvi 260 for the car.
---
Thank you for contacting Garmin International. There is no way to display
the coordinates of the saved favorite in the Nuvi 2xx series devices. If you
wish to see the coordinates you can do this once you arrive at that favorite
by going to Where To then Coordinates icon and this will display your
current lat and long.
With Best Regards,
Philip N
Product Support Specialist
Automotive Team
Garmin International
913-397-8200
800-800-1020
913-397-8282 (fax) Att: Philip N
www.garmin.com



Posted by Gene H. Chan on May 16, 2008, 6:41 pm


$nl7.3654@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com:

> here's what I received from Garmin -
> hmmm - a GPS that can't display GPS coords, go figure....
> Not much help for a rural or camping situation when you have a location
> and want to tell someone to meet you there - but can't give them the
> coords...
> I have a Garmin 12 for camping, and the Nuvi 260 for the car.
>

I posted a message in this thread on May 14 with a description of how I
displayed the coordinates of a "Favorite" location, on my nüvi 650. I
realize that the 2xx series and 6xx series of nüvis are somewhat different,
but perhaps my procedure might work for you?


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