GPS Insight Blog » Routing http://blog.gpsinsight.com Advanced GPS Fleet Tracking Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:48:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Going to Vegas with some GPS Insight employees! http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/09/going-to-vegas-with-some-employees/ http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/09/going-to-vegas-with-some-employees/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:26:54 +0000 rdonat http://blog.gpsinsight.com/?p=1838 So I head out tomorrow morning to Las Vegas for the  AFLA Conference (American Fleet Leasing Association), and probably won’t have much time for documenting GPS Insight in the blog.

So I have to pick up 2 GPS Insight employees tomorrow, & don’t know where they live (I won’t name names — what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas).

Easy enough — I just enter their addresses into the GPS Insight Route Dashlet on the dashboard, choosing a Start/End of my house & Sky Harbor Airport (both pre-defined landmarks in GPS Insight’s account):

How to route myself via Garmin to 2 employee homes & the Airport

How to route myself via Garmin to 2 employee homes & the Airport

Press “Get Route” and voila!

Create an optimized route to pick up employees before heading to the airport

Create and send an optimized route to my vehicle's Garmin to pick up employees and head to the airport

Now I am able to send the route named “Vegas” to my Garmin, which will have 4 sequentially numbered stops, and will take me in that order.

Also, I can always map it by pressing “Map This” and it will show the overall route, to include the time (1 hour & 10 minutes) and turn-by-directions (not that I’ll need them — that’s what the Garmin is for!):

Mapped route with a start & 3 sequential stops

Mapped route with a start & 3 sequential stops

Now I need to pack & get some sleep for a very busy conference full of learning and such…

Rob.

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