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building a route on Garmin for Garmin Edge touring

I'm having great difficulty plotting a route on the Garmin website so that I can add a route for a ride for tomorrow (yes, in the wind and rain and snow and whatever else is dumped on Sussex!)

much appreciated, merci beaucoup in advance

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scotchtastic | 8 years ago
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I'm afraid I've simply given up with my Garmin Edge Touring.My device has been backwards and forwards to the manufacturers who say the problem is software.
Be that as it may I'm happy with my brand new and extremely expensive IT kit and I'm certain the problem lies with Garmin. To me it has been far more trouble than it has has been worth. It has seldom functioned correctly and in fact has deteriorated over time. Just walk away and write it off to experience.The thought that Garmin are involved in marine and aviation productions is more than a little worrying.

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iggy | 8 years ago
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I'll try that. I assume you don't get street names using that method?

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alotronic | 8 years ago
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Yes I've had a 600km route in my touring edge and it's been fine.

I always export from [insert favourite web tool here] to GPX ie a TRACK. Then into Edge via USB and the 'Newfiles' folder.

Only ever use a TRACK and autonavigate OFF is the key. Anything else will feck with your head.

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iggy | 8 years ago
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Plotted a 130 Mile route in ridewithgps the other day, exported as tcx, and loaded to Garmin edge 510.

Set off on the morning of the ride, only for Garmin to give me a route calculation error upon loading the route. It still loaded the route map but wouldn't do advance turn notifications (no problems achieving this before but on shorter <70mile routes).

Does anyone have any experience of this or how to solve? Surely it should be able to cope with 100mile plus courses otherwise what's the point!!!

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ribena | 8 years ago
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For road routes, i use strava and download as a tcx, though sometimes have to switch it to the much slower "manual mode" when using bike paths

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welsh wizard | 8 years ago
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Interesting topic for me as have an EDGE 510 which love but had never been totally happy with creating a course and having turn by turn instructions. Have tried various mapping sites and file formats that had various pros and cons but never quite there...However bike hike allows me to create a course easily and quickly and download a GPX TRACK file into which I have added for EDGE to tell me 100 metres before turn whats coming up...by far quickest and most reliable way for me to create a decent course that can be relied on...boom!

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il sole | 8 years ago
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Dare I say that I get on fine with the Garmin connect site. I've planned rides for the UK, France and Gran Canaria. Works a treat with my touring plus...

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TheFatAndTheFurious | 8 years ago
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+1 also for RideWithGps.com - pretty easy to build a plot, with interactive altitude profile.

Altitude data is included as part of the export. It means my Garmin can show the profile of the upcoming route.

When exporting for my Garmin 800, I use the "GPX TRACK" option. I still get advance turn notification. For whatever reason, my device just doesn't deal with GPX Route files properly.

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BrokenBootneck | 8 years ago
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Bike Hike for me. I used to always use http://bikeroutetoaster.com/ which stopped working but is back now.

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vonhelmet | 8 years ago
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Plot it on ridewithgps, spit out a tcx and feed that into bikehike with coursepoints, then generate another tcx with a 200 foot leadtime on the turning markers, then put that second tcx file on the garmin.

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runskiprun replied to vonhelmet | 8 years ago
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vonhelmet wrote:

Plot it on ridewithgps, spit out a tcx and feed that into bikehike with coursepoints, then generate another tcx with a 200 foot leadtime on the turning markers, then put that second tcx file on the garmin.

can you translate that into dummy?  4  21

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chris.keelingroberts | 8 years ago
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I wouldn't bother with the Garmin site, but plot it on BikeHike instead.

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shields tommo | 8 years ago
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I use GPSies http://www.gpsies.com and then export the track to my Garmin 710 as a tcx file. Works great for me.

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lisa76uk | 8 years ago
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I use Ride with GPS ... http://ridewithgps.com/

Instructions on how to upload your .tcx or .gpx file to your Garmin after you've created and saved it ... http://ridewithgps.com/help/garmin-edge-800

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jollygoodvelo replied to lisa76uk | 8 years ago
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lisa76uk wrote:

I use Ride with GPS ... http://ridewithgps.com/

Instructions on how to upload your .tcx or .gpx file to your Garmin after you've created and saved it ... http://ridewithgps.com/help/garmin-edge-800

This is what I do. Works a treat.

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