Using your new Portable Navigation System with Web Mapping sites

<p>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 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=portable+navigation+devices&rs=172282&page=1&rh=i:aps,k:portable+navigation+devices,i:electroni cs,n:172282&sort=price" target="_blank">magic 200 dollar price point</a> 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. <p>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. <p>* <p><strong><u><font size=2>Step 1 - Create a Collection of waypoints that we want to get on our PND.</font></u></strong>


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For many years people have been asking for pushpin export feature in MS Streets & Trips (and MS AutoRoute) so they could then import the pushpins into their Garmin PNDs.

Any chance of the feature ever making it into the CD product, too? It still is much easier to do trip planning in Streets & Trips, rather than on-line ;).