Routes from a P/C to a GPS?

[bstach]

I have a Magellan Maestro 4050 right now that I use in my truck and sometimes on my bike. I went to the Lone Star Rally in November and really wanted to use my GPS to go on the route I had mapped out in my map book. I could not find a way to do this.

So after I got back, I called the Support line to try to find a way. They gave me a one word answer of NO.

So now I have been looking around here for a while and have seen some talk about this here and there. I thought I would ask everyone here the question.

I would like to go on my laptop and use a program to map out the way I want to go during a ride. Then I would like to be able to save that route and then bring it up on my GPS and have the GPS tell me where to go.

Now if I can't do this with the 4050, could you tell me what is the best and easiest GPS to do this with?

[Nauga Mok]

I know it's easy to do with the Garmin Zumos. I think most of the Garmins will. Maybe some of the Garmin Nuvi owners will chime in too. The only problem is even after developing the route on the PC, the Zumo will recalculate it & not always stay with the origional route.. it'll be close enough you can use it. The biggest problem is the memory capacity. Without using the expantion card (it was loaded with tunes), on my trip last summer (24 days), the onboard memory would have left me in the middle of Nebraska (day 9) -- going. My solution was to pick up a little Acer netbook & down load the day's "tracks" & upload the next day's route. Worked good. Also used the Acer to download the days photos.

NM

[Lunchbox1983]

You can upload way points and thus a route into a Garmen Nuvi no problem.

[BlueTrinity]

Garmin also has a program that can be downloaded from their website, that will allow you to use MapQuest to build your customized trips, along start and stop times as well as planned stops, etc. and then upload that to your Garmin.

[Calman]

Check the guys at Travel By GPS.com They have all kinds of tricks and programs over there that should fill your bill.