GPS Kids | Garmin Connect adds outdoor handhelds to online community

Today brought great news to hikers, campers, hunters, geocachers and anyone else who loves outdoor activities. Garmin Connect is proud to welcome the Garmin outdoor product line to the site. With today’s updates, Garmin Connect now supports uploads from Garmin outdoor devices, including Garmin mass storage devices such as zūmo and nüvi. This is exciting news, as it means we offer support for all of Garmin’s fitness and outdoor devices. Now more than ever, Garmin Connect is your easy to use, go-to site for all of your activity logging and training needs.

For those of you with a Garmin outdoor handheld device you can expect many new features, and improvements on your favorite features:

Easy uploads for new generation Garmin devices

Manual uploads for .gpx files

Activity log in table view

Activity log in the new Calendar view

Detailed analysis of activities

Relive activities in the improved Player

View activities on maps including our new embedded Google Earth view

Export to Google Earth

Share activities on Facebook and Twitter

Export activity files in .gpx and .tcx format to use on third-party applications

Explore other routes from Garmin customers – 15 million plus activities and counting

Over 38,000 new activities uploaded everyday

Send any track found at Garmin Connect in Explore to your Garmin Outdoor device for navigation

We are confident that Garmin outdoor customers will enjoy Garmin Connect, and that the site will continue to meet your fitness and adventure needs.

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