John’s Technology Blog

I recently purchased a Garmin Nuvi 650 and have since used it to help me with my Garage Sale needs.

Now, when I want to go garage sale’ing I’ll look up all of the addresses in the paper and copy and paste them into a text file list this:

2868 West 230 North, Provo
401 North 2330 West, Provo
1020 W. 1020 S. Provo
1453 S 760 W Provo

Then I go to the following GPS Translation website:  http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

I enter the list of addresses there and click “Start Geocoding”.

The result is a comma delimited list of coordinates with the address.

I then click “Create a GPX File”.  I then save that GPX file onto my Nuvi in the Garmin/GPX folder.  This puts them into my favorites.

Finally, for added measure, I print out a map of the coordinates – using that same webpage and order the addresses according to the route I want to take.  I print out that list of addresses and use that to select the next item in my favorites on the GPS.

This has really made garage sale’ing easy and fun!