This past Holiday shopping season the price point of portable navigation devices (PND) from manufacturers like Garmin, LG, Mio, Tom Tom and many others fell under the ortable+navigation+devices,i:electroni cs,n:172282&sort=price" target="_blank">magic 200 dollar price point and they flew off the shelves. One of the most tedious tasks on a PND is entering and searching for waypoints - the small UI isn't ideal for text entry. Fortunately most of these devices allow you to import waypoints (stops on an itinerary) that you created on your PC or Mac. With our latest release last week, Live Maps became the first major web mapping site with broad support for these PND's. You can now do your trip planning online in the convenience of your web browser and then take your itinerary on the road in your PND.

In this tutorial I'll show you how to use Live Maps to build a Collection of Waypoints and then export them to your Portable Navigation Device. Since I'm heading to the Coachella festival next week, our tutorial will build a Collection of the places that will be important to have with me on the trip - airport, hotel, concert site, and a suggested restaurant. Step 1 will show you how to add items to your Collection via address search, business search, and even interactively right-clicking on the map to indicate a stop. Then most importantly, in Step 2 we'll export the Collection to your Portable Navigation Device.

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Step 1 - Create a Collection of waypoints that we want to get on our PND.


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