Rick

I had a Garmin IQ3600 and was able to save a trip log onto my computer.
I now have a Garmin 760 and don't seem able to do this, I was in Africa last year and was able to keep a record of my entire trip.
Does anyone know if it is possible?

Max

Whats an IQ3600?

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Keith

Never heard of it: Garmin IQ 3600

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Max

OH, just dawned on me...forgot about that series. Interesting.

How were you doing it with the IQ3600 Rick? did you make use of mapsource or any Garmin software?

To answer your question - I am not sure that the 760 has track logging as a feature. I don't think my Nuvi does, and that was one of the downsides of it - but I could be wrong. Let me summon some assistance..

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dav

Yes, my nüvi 750 supports this. You don't even have to do anything special, other than DO NOT press "clear trip log". (tools/my data/clear trip log)

In Mapsource there are four tabs on the left pane, MAPS, WAYPOINTS, ROUTES and TRACKS.

I just plugged my nüvi in to the PC USB port, clicked on TRACKS in Mapsource (which was empty at this time), clicked on the "receive from device" icon and 20 tracks were very quickly downloaded to Mapsource.

The nüvi starts a new track every time it is powered on. I chose one track with a little over 800 waypoints and right clicked it and said "display on map" and it zoomed out so the track would fit in the display.

Rick

Hi Dav
I just tried what you had done and nothing appeared, no tracks and I have quite a few, also the "tracks" box is greyed out so I guess it's not available on the 760

dav

Hm, sorry to hear that.

I'm not techie enough to know where they are, what file extension, etc. I just know that works for me.

I looked through the directories on the Garmin and couldn't see anything that was obviously the track logs. The GPX files don't look like they contain enough info.

Guess I can't help. I'm sorry!

Rick

Thanks for trying!

dav

Rick, I was just playing around with Google Earth. It would not import the tracks directly, so I had it open the GPX file: (drive)/garmin/GPX/current.gpx

Then I whittled it down to showing only the one track in Google Earth, and it displays basically the same thing I had in Mapsource.

So the trip log is part of the GPX file, I guess.

Rick

Thanks Dav
I haven't had a chance to try it, but will try when I can, and let you know.
It sounds like it might work and could even be better.
Thanks again
Rick

elango

Hello, Can anyone tell me how I can keep all my trip logs with indefinite points? I'd like that to be stored on to my Nuvi 770's attached SD card instead.

Is it even possible? I notice that if I keep it on all the time, after it reaches the 10000 points, it deletes all the old trip log info.

Thanks.

Andy

With the Nuvi 770 connected to a computer, open the drive icon for it and see if there are GPX files named 1.gpx, 2.gpx, etc. My Nuvi 550 holds 10000 point track logs as well but when it fills up, it creates a new .gpx file. Even though the device's track log only holds 10000 points, the files will still contain it all if the 770 is like the 550.