Which software package will let me download addresses from other apps on the laptop??
Do any of the dash-mount units allow this?
Do any of the dash-mount units allow this?
Hi Bill,
As far as I know, none of the personal navigation devices allow a direct download from standard applications. It's usually at least a two step process.
For instance, with Garmin's Nuvi devices you would need to export the information from a spreadsheet or database into a .CSV format, run the .CSV file through a converter (.CSV to .GPX), then load it into Garmin's Mapsource program as waypoints. Once the data is in Mapsource you can transfer it to the Nuvi or other Garmin navigation device.
Most other products, including laptop navigation programs, require something like that .. typically requiring the use of a conversion program in the middle.
As far as I know, Microsoft's Streets&Trips and Mappoint are the only navigation programs out there than can import directly from other applications.
Streets&Trips can import directly from an Excel spreadsheet. Mappoint can import from Excel and also from Access.
...ken...
As far as I know, none of the personal navigation devices allow a direct download from standard applications. It's usually at least a two step process.
For instance, with Garmin's Nuvi devices you would need to export the information from a spreadsheet or database into a .CSV format, run the .CSV file through a converter (.CSV to .GPX), then load it into Garmin's Mapsource program as waypoints. Once the data is in Mapsource you can transfer it to the Nuvi or other Garmin navigation device.
Most other products, including laptop navigation programs, require something like that .. typically requiring the use of a conversion program in the middle.
As far as I know, Microsoft's Streets&Trips and Mappoint are the only navigation programs out there than can import directly from other applications.
Streets&Trips can import directly from an Excel spreadsheet. Mappoint can import from Excel and also from Access.
...ken...
Ken, THANK YOU for the precise, robust information.
Bill
Bill
Hi Bill, and welcome to Laptop GPS World. Beside the above mentioned consumer software, also DeLorme Street Atlas is capable of importing from various file formats.