jshields
hey everyone- thanks for your time and help(hopefully!) i am wanting to use my garmin nuvi255w as a gps unit in conjunction with mapping software. i read somewhere that google earth can be a good software to use. i have downloaded google earth and found the options for connecting a gps unit to it. when i connect my usb cable from the gps to my computer, my garmin screen just says garmin on it and i have no options to do anything with the screen of the garmin. it seems like the unit is just charging. any ideas around this or is this ok/normal? when i do try to start up the gps in google earth, it says importing data then i get a error message that says "could not load file usb" "parse error at line 614 column 1" "not well formed invalid token". i click ok on that error message and i get another message that says, cannot find the device garmin, please restart the device, check the connections and try again". whats going on?!! also on my grlevel3 do i just go to file gps and start? will an icon automatically show up on the radar for my location then? thanks for any help or suggestions. if i have to do a different setup i will, but thought i would try this first since i already had the garmin and google earth is free