Okay, now that I have created a couple of trips I tried transferring one of them to my device. And I noticed that all previously non-existent waypoints were in fact added. But, there does not appear to be any way to actually use the "trip" in the device? Am I missing something? What is the point of creating a trip for your device if it is not importable in a form that can be navigated automatically?
As time has gone by, and as the number of different user names an individual can use has failed to amuse me I have somewhat lost interest in determining all the different ways that routing software can be caused to fail. However the Garmin 265 can probably accept and calculate a road route if the only the Direct route waypoints are sent to the device.
Successful Direct routing point files for the 255/265 devices can likely be created on Basecamp as well as other legacy apps.
The 265 will only navigate to 1 point at a time. Then you have to give it the next point you want to go to. It will not automatically go from one to the next (like a trip) by itself.
Just to clarify this. Your device cannot use trips/routes sent by BaseCamp, unlike some of the more modern devices, but it's not correct to say that it will only navigate to one point at a time. Having done a Where to, selected a location and then done a Go and once the device is navigating, you can then do another Where to etc. This time when you hit go it will ask if you want to start a new route or add that point to the existing route. How many times you can do this varies depending on the device, if my memory serves me correctly on the 265 it is only once.
I bought a 255W back in 2010 or 2011 but did not use it on the road except when extremely disoriented at the end of the day. Why? Because I had a PN-40 with pushbuttons that I knew backwards and forwards, and my usual and customary passenger didn't quite get the concepts of either.
I too was of the opinion that this 200 series Garmin device would not accept more than one or two waypoints until I started playing around with Basecamp and newer (post 2013) Garmin devices with functional trip planner feature. So one day I pulled the 255W out and found that it was possible to import a route with multiple waypoints into the device. I am sure that it would display multiple waypoint imported routes in Direct Routing mode, and I "think" that it would also recalculate a road route using those points. But I am not positive about the multi-point waypoint road routing capability, as I threw the 255w back in the box and forgot about it, as any sane person with a 2014 or later Garmin device would have done unless already thoroughly checked out on the capabilities of the older units.
On my Nuvi 50 I can download waypoints. Unless the points are far apart, navigation from point to point is more work than it is worth. On the models with "Trip Planner" you can set up a route and get it to navigate the trip. With a few caveats.
OK. I misremembered that I could not import route points from either Basecamp or Delorme Topo9 into Garmin 255W device. The device does create up to 5 point routes, including Start and Finish by inserting up to 3 already saved waypoints into a two point route. Dead battery initial charge rate was .25A@5v, but increased to .42A@5v after using it for above exercise. Total length of route was under 200 miles round trip. Now the 255 goes back in the box partially charged. (Maybe I shouldn't have used a new 32GB micro SD card).
Okay, you guys seem to be using "route" and "trip" interchangeably and in Garmin devices they are not the same thing since the addition of the Trip Planner in newer devices and its addition to Basecamp. In other words, a device that supports multipoint routes still may not support trips. I'm pretty sure that some of the first devices to get trip planner function did not support routes.
So, is the original poster having a problem because he has used Basecamp's trip planner and his device only supports routes (if it supports multipoint navigation at all)?
