I'm doing a 6 weeks tour in Italy in 2024 and want to create my travel plan in Google. This is perfect and has shown me things I did not know about Google maps right from the start of the video. I just been through the tutorial switching back and forth, setting up a route myself and every step is exactly as described.

Perfect absolutely nails it Traveling From Bulgaria to UK and this is the most clearly explained and demonstrated video I have seen in a long time. Thank you so much.

I could choose to see other videos on how to do a trip planner but why for? , this is the best, and no need to watch others. This is an excellent video, it really helped me a lot.

This was super useful...very well explained ( ...your camera and editing were top class too )...Thanks a lot.

Excellent. Thanks so much for that. Certainly I haven't seen that brilliant method before Edit: I just converted a route I had previously made on Google Maps -- exactly as you instructed to do -- and imported it into my old Garmin 590. It worked perfectly -- and all without the very clunky BaseCamp. Good on you, many thanks

Cheers Jeff, great to see you back in Jurassic Park/World.

Thanks Khalid Siriki for your video, it's very helpful for a beginner. thank you also for the advice to use and get a Garmin, because it is much more fun to plan a trip in advance.

That's a pretty good tutorial. Most of people think with Google maps on your phone, External GPS are dead. That's not exactly what I think, I love navigation with my Garmin GPS and stick to it. Google maps is great but if you don't have network, the software won't work. I didn't know this method of route planning. Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for demonstrating both the "old" Garmin and a newer model. I have both so this video was very helpful. My car has built in GPS, but i can't create custom routes with it, so my Garmin is a great tool for custom trips on the back roads. Thank you for your help.

Very good tutorial. I was hoping for a way to actually import a Google map itself for a complex route that has been modified to avoid congested areas. So it looks like I'm going to have to import the GPX file and then make the changes again on the Garmin. (Edit to add: I have watched BaseCamp tutes and it's too complex for me.) Anyway, thank you. Your teaching style is excellent.

Very good tutorial. Thank you!

Excellent thank you so much. I have the Garmin Smart Drive which is just sitting in the box as to be honest I use Google Maps in UK 99% of the time. I don't even bother with the built in Mercedes Sat Nav or Honda as they are OK. With this new innovation, I think I will plan precisely my trip to lock in the best points of interest. I found some excellent bargain markets, something for the kids etc. By using Google maps and copied my planned trip, it will be excellent. I think I might name the trips Monday Tuesday Wednesday etc and then we know what we "plan" to do on each of the days. I salute Sir for discovering this amazing hidden feature on Google maps. I am just glad I bought a Garmin and NOT a Tom Tom!

that's a great lesson mate, well done. helped me a lot. thanx buddy.

Very good tutorial vid! This works well for point to point directions. The only thing I see wrong is if you want to take a specific road, say a secondary highway instead of interstate between differnt destinations, how would you import that? I haven't been able to get Basecamp to work with my Zumo 396, so i've been looking for alternatives without success.

Thank you my man this will change my trip planing

Wow, I took an aspirin after your lecture. I tried to do this in France, but there are no casinos on every corner. 🥴👍

Thank you for the info, will definitely use this

Thank you for the information !

Great help for the techy,can I ask you if you can turn a Garmin nuvi 2797 LM into a Garmin nuvi 2797 LMT by adding the LMT power card or it be cone another way?

You are doing it the hard way. You can plan the same trip in regular Google Maps -- just the one step -- and use your phone for navigation. Doing it in Google Maps will also provide information for each destination (and any other poi by just tapping on one). Moreover, you can edit the trip on the fly.

Good job on information

really interesting thanks a lot

I'm trying to learn how to take some of the trips I've taken and upload them to my computer. I have a Zumo XT and have basecamp loaded. I didn't know enough to have it record the track as I went. I would like to go back and retrace where I went on the mountain roads. Where is a good tutorial on this? Jim

thanks for the tutoriol, it gave me some very nice tips. one thing I'm uncertain of though. when you click on the three lines at the top left hand corner at the google maps side menu, there is an item called 'your places' where you clicked to start with. my google maps side menu doesn't have 'your places' so how do I add it?. thank you

Great info as usual BUT...... Sharing routes via GPX files is fought with danger. Google maps is all about destinations. If you share routes with various destinations with other travellers each traveller can be sent by a totally different route depending in their version of garmin maps and/or the settings of their gps units. Eg garmin zumo 590. Rourlte plan may be totally different due to the route setting being Curcy roads yet the destinations/ way points are the same. It is a total pain when I share gpx files with friends on bike rides and think their turn by turn directions will be the same as mine.

thank you sir.

I have many saved places that I want to keep on my Drivesmart 50 LMT, it gets very confusing trying to remove the new locations that where generated by the GPX file from my saved places. How do I remove the GPX file from my gps? I have deleted the GPX file in my GPS using file explorer on my PC, but the GPS still keeps the new locations in my GPS. Then I have to manually delete the new saved places from my GPS. It would be nice if there was a way to drop the GPX file into the recently found folder on my GPS.

I set this up every time it does not follow my rout it takes a roundabout way. Drives me nuts Then I stop at a destination that I pass out of order it does not know I stopped and there is no way to remove destination from route. I enter in the destinations in the order I want to stop. But for what ever reason takes me on some strange route. What am I doing wrong?

Can this be done using iPad/Garmin devices and, if so, how is the process different?

Thank you

When I tried this on my new Garmin DriveSmart 66, the start and destination locations came up in Favourites but there was no route map between them. I've looked at countless KZfaq videos but the interface between Google Maps And Garmin mapping is made as difficult as possible. The most successful routing I have done is within the Garmin device itself.

I would like to create a route using Google Maps (MyMaps) and then import that into Basecamp (I am on a Mac, but assume it would be the same on a PC). Then I can tweak it in Basecamp then export the route to the Garmin device. Do you have a video that shows how to do this? If not, any chance you would create a tutorial in this?

informative

Hi can I download an entire country from Google map and convert it to garmin device ?

can i make it offroad trip as well ?

Hi, thank you for this tutorial... very helpful. I was wondering if you have this in print. I know someone I'd like to share it with, but they struggle with video instructions. They need to read over and over to understand... (some brains work differently). Thanks again :)

i do it correct but when i turn on my garmin nuvi is nothing on favourites but in GPX file is there

Getting a blank screen on a Mac. Any suggestions?

Just download it to base camp then change from track to route

I like your video but when I click on convert on the KML2GPX all I get is a blank screen.

any update on this now is asking me for api key?

Why my garmin 300 He can't make a fixed starting point and save me, he always throws me somewhere in the middle of Norway, and I'm from the Balkans

I do not want apps running on my Samsung Galaxy phone when I am not using them. I own a OTR800. I know how to kill apps both with my Appkiller app and manually on Android. It is bad enough some Google apps can not be killed, but Garmin goes too far. My phone has all its updates but these apps have done the same behavior for on Android 9,10,11,12. You can not disable the apps either. A users only choice is to uninstall both the Drive app and Dezl app. Else they consume power and some data. These apps could be made to detect a Bluetooth connection a GPS device and be dormant the rest, which is most, of the time I am not driving and in motion. So Garmin should reimburse everyone for the background data these apps consume without the users permission of knowledge. For nowhere in the user agreement does it indicate these apps run 24/7 and can not be shut off. I think they are secretly collecting personal data. The apps really do not help me navigate. They are supposed to warn me of real time traffic and speed traps. This is yet to happen once, in the six months I have owned the OTR800. I do not recommend installing Drive app and Dezl app on any phone, until such a time as users have full control over the apps. mrgcav@gmail.com

why cant you just input the destination right into the Garmin device? DUH!!