How to Send Address from Google to Garmin?

Maintaining access to up-to-date address information helps to make sure that the employees of your company always know how they can get into essential meetings. The quick and accurate search potential or capabilities provided by the Google Maps website have been making it an excellent companion to mobile GPS devices of your company. If you want to send an address from Google Maps to a Garmin device, all you need is to pair the Google Maps website on your computer with the free Garmin communicator plug-in of Garmin.

What is Garmin?

Garmin is a renowned company that has been working to produce consumer, professional aviation, and also, the aquatic or marine devices that use the System of Global Positioning for the navigational assistance. Tools such as hand-held GPS units and devices like in-vehicle units have always been standard.

Steps to Send Address from Google to Garmin

Simply follow the steps given below to know how you can send an address from Google to Garmin:

1. First of all, download and install the free Garmin Communicator plug-in on your PC.
2. Then you have to connect your Garmin device to your PC using the USB cable that you got with your Garmin device.
3. Then open a new Web browser tab.
4. Here, you need to the Google Maps website and search in Google Maps searching bar for the address you desire to send to your Garmin device.
5. Tap on the "Send" link on the bar. You will find it in the top right corner of Google Maps to launch the Send To window.
6. Now, you have to tap on the "GPS" tab in the Send To window.
7. And tap on the "Brand" drop-down menu.
8. Then you need to select "Garmin" from the compatible GPS manufacturers’ list.
9. Tap on the "Include" drop-down menu, and select the address you want to send to your Garmin device.
10. Finally, just tap on the "Send" button.

Note: If you see an error message when trying to send the address to your Garmin device, you are supposed to close your Web browser and re-launch it and try again. If the errors persevere, then you will need to restart your PC so that it would start recognizing that your Garmin device is connected or not.

Thank you for reading this article; I hope that the information provided in it is going to be useful to you.

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