Is there a website where you can upload tracks off Garmin....without Mapsource

[ihatefalling]

I'll use my Garmin etrex on 2-3 day long rides.

I'd like to be able to upload the days tracks off the unit at night so I can start fresh every morning.

But I don't want to have to take the laptop with the mapsource software with me on the rides.

So I wonder if there's a website that'll let you upload and save them there....straight from the unit.

Make sense? Any ideas?

Thanks . . . .

[CoDawg]

Originally Posted by ihatefalling

So I wonder if there's a website that'll let you upload and save them there....straight from the unit.

No, because no website can access your GPS USB or serial port. And how are you going to connect your GPS to the internet in order to access the web if you don't have a computer?

[ihatefalling]

Hotel / motel lobby.
Just thought I could carry the USB cable, plug it into a loaner computer and pull the file. Retrive the file later when I get home.

[9Dave]

Originally Posted by ihatefalling

Hotel / motel lobby.
Just thought I could carry the USB cable, plug it into a loaner computer and pull the file. Retrive the file later when I get home.

Check out the "lost or confused" sticky and the "loading Mapsource from a thumb drive" link.

Or you might be able to run GPSBabel off a thumb drive.

The big question will be just how locked down the computer is that you are working off of. A web based application might work if it didn't require additional applets.

[Jäger]

Originally Posted by CoDawg

No, because no website can access your GPS USB or serial port.

Yes. At least one that I use, and probably any other website enabled to use the Garmin Communicator plugin. And assuming that hotel/motel/whatever will let you load the Garmin Communicator plugin.

http://www.gpsies.com/convert.do
http://www.gpsies.com/upload.do

The OP can leave them on the website, email the result back to himself using webmail, etc.

[CoDawg]

Originally Posted by Jäger

And assuming that hotel/motel/whatever will let you load the Garmin Communicator plugin.

There in lies the problem. Sure, there are all kinds of programs that you can install that will retrieve and save the tracks off your GPS (MapSource, EasyGPS, etc.), and you don’t even need a website to save them to. Just save them to a thumb drive. There is NO website that can do it. You have to install some software that will access the USB port then transfer the data to the website. Good luck relying on finding a hotel that will allow you to install your personal software! You’re bound to be up the creek and end up loosing tracks if you take that approach. Maybe if you can install MapSource or EasyGPS on your thumb drive and run it from there, then you might be in luck.

[Countdown]

Originally Posted by ihatefalling

I'll use my Garmin etrex on 2-3 day long rides. I'd like to be able to upload the days tracks off the unit at night so I can start fresh every morning. that'll let you upload and save them there....straight from the unit. Thanks . . . .

Actually by far, the best solution is to upgrade to an "x" unit. It will save your Active Log to the SD card. The actual active log holds at least two days tracks, perhaps 3 but if it overflows, all of them are still on the SD Card. SD Card will hold a year or two of tracks.

[dpifko]

Originally Posted by Jäger

Yes. At least one that I use, and probably any other website enabled to use the Garmin Communicator plugin. And assuming that hotel/motel/whatever will let you load the Garmin Communicator plugin.

http://www.gpsies.com/convert.do
http://www.gpsies.com/upload.do

The OP can leave them on the website, email the result back to himself using webmail, etc.

This is a good site and use of Garmin's plugin. It took me <5 minutes to register and upload a track, and that included walking outside for 2 minutes to get some data on my blank Garmin ;-).

It should solve most people's needs, including the OP's, since the GarminConnect plugin is:

a) free
b) easy to install, and from the web
c) standard, as it plugs into the browser
d) not limited (or licensed) to one user or gps

That's going to get you most of the way there. While there may be some hotels that completely lock down their computers, some will be open entirely and some will see that this is the sort of thing they really want to offer to a bunch of travelers and install it as standard.

Daniel

[Jäger]

Originally Posted by CoDawg

There is NO website that can do it. You have to install some software that will access the USB port then transfer the data to the website.

Well noob, at least we've moved from your claim that "no website will do it" to "okay, websites will do it but only with a plugin".

Not interested in semantic arguments. The OP asked a question. Specifically: I wonder if there's a website that'll let you upload and save them there....straight from the unit.

This is one that DOES allow a website to do so, and yes, it does work. Yes, it requires a plugin to do so. No, it's not how I would do it, with or without a plugin - or thumb drive, or somebody else's computer - required.

Good luck relying on finding a hotel that will allow you to install your personal software! You’re bound to be up the creek and end up loosing tracks if you take that approach. Maybe if you can install MapSource or EasyGPS on your thumb drive and run it from there, then you might be in luck.

And maybe the places that won't let you install that Garmin plugin won't let you plug in that thumb drive as well, fearing that they might be contaminated with viruses. In my opinion, you're much more likely to have a security conscious place not allow strange thumb drives containing God knows what to be connected to their computer, than you are to have them okay with that but not allow a browser plugin from Garmin to be installed.

Of course, if we want to suggest thumb drives because we don't like the website answer, a browser with the Garmin plugin already installed to access these websites is also another route to take.

The idea was to answer the OP's question and provide him with information he requested. He has it.

But the discussion does give me an idea to suggest to Craftycoder..

[CoDawg]

Originally Posted by Jäger

But the discussion does give me an idea to suggest to Craftycoder..

I second that suggestion. Jerry (Countdown) suggested a very good solution as well, which is to use a GPS that automatically saves tracks daily to an installed microSD card. No website, software installation, or even hotel computer required for that one!

[SnowMule]

Originally Posted by CoDawg

I second that suggestion. Jerry (Countdown) suggested a very good solution as well, which is to use a GPS that automatically saves tracks daily to an installed microSD card. No website, software installation, or even hotel computer required for that one!

This is what I do with my 60CSx. Tracks get echoed to a file on teh data card, so I can just delete "Active Log" on teh receiver and not lose the data if I don't download it to the computer.

And if you've got a GPS with external memory that's capable of mass storage mode, dump a bunch of utilities on that memory card for working with the GPS.... I have Google Earth, LoadMyTracks, EasyGPS, owners manuals, backups of all my data files, etc. Receiver's just going to ignore those, but it's nice to have them with the GPS if you're on a hotel's lobby/business center computer.

[V-Tom]

You don't need any special Garmin or GPS website, you just need to plug the GPS into a comuter and copy the track files to the computer and then either email them to yourself or send them to a storage serivce.

..Tom

[9Dave]

Originally Posted by V-Tom

You don't need any special Garmin or GPS website, you just need to plug the GPS into a comuter and copy the track files to the computer and then either email them to yourself or send them to a storage serivce.

That would presume that the computer you plugged into could read your GPS as a storage device - and not all GPS can be, and not all public computers will see the GPS even if they are able to be viewed.