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Garmin 810 – Base Maps? Strava Routes?

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  • September 7, 2015 at 9:02 am #24753
    PaulBox

    Hi,

    I’m looking for a device to use to help me ride new routes.

    The Garmin 810 sounds pretty good, but can I transfer routes from Strava on to it? I’ve been using a 500 for years, which I love for the usual tracking stuff, but I don’t want to rely on the crumb trail that this device can provide (or whatever it’s called).

    Also, I will be mainly using it in the UK, would I need to upgrade the maps or would the ‘Base Maps’ be good enough? Planning a ride on the continent next year, assume that I would definitely need to upgrade it then.

    Thanks in advance,
    Paul.

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  • September 17, 2015 at 1:09 pm #858965
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    PaulBox

    bertisfantastic wrote:with
    [quote=bertisfantastic]with the 810 you can buy a cheap micro SD card (for about £10) and then download the open source maps. there is a simple how to here:

    http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/05/download-garmin-705800810.html%5B/quote%5D
    Cheers!

    810 and SD Card have now arrived, I have followed the instructions on DCRainmaker’s site to create my map and received the email to tell me that it is ready.

    loking forward to downloading and installing when I get home this evening.

    September 17, 2015 at 1:07 pm #858963
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    PaulBox

    S13SFC wrote:Strava routes

    S13SFC wrote:
    Strava routes are simple to download straight into a 810. Takes seconds.

    Could you tell us how please 🙂

    September 15, 2015 at 10:25 pm #858961
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    DanTe

    S13SFC wrote:I’ve used the

    S13SFC wrote:
    I’ve used the DCRainmaker to download maps for trips to France, Spain and Belgium and they are brilliant. No need at all to pay for anything else.

    Strava routes are simple to download straight into a 810. Takes seconds.

    Sounds great. How do you do that? Onto a fresh micro SD loaded into the Garmin?

    September 14, 2015 at 8:52 pm #858959
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    S13SFC

    I’ve used the DCRainmaker to
    I’ve used the DCRainmaker to download maps for trips to France, Spain and Belgium and they are brilliant. No need at all to pay for anything else.

    Strava routes are simple to download straight into a 810. Takes seconds.

    September 9, 2015 at 9:21 am #858957
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    bertisfantastic

    with the 810 you can buy a
    with the 810 you can buy a cheap micro SD card (for about £10) and then download the open source maps. there is a simple how to here:

    http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/05/download-garmin-705800810.html

    its pretty easy and you can get maps for the whole world, handy for holiday trips to the alps etc. if you make maps on strava then you export both tcx or gpx and it will do turn by turn navigation. the only issue is that the auto routing is not amazing with the open source mapping. it will get you to your destination but not necessarily the most direct (i.e. approaching sevenoaks from the south west and it took me on a loop to go into the north end when my destination was at the south end. an extra 2k added on). it may be better with the garmin own maps, but significantly more expensive

    cheers

    rob

    September 8, 2015 at 9:22 pm #858955
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    DanTe

    I download my routes straight
    I download my routes straight from Strava, export the GPX, drop it into new files then eject the Garmin properly and it’ll be on there. It’s dead easy.
    No turn by turn but if you zoom in on the maps you don’t need it. Saves battery for long trips too.
    I’d go for an 810. If you’ve got Di2 I might be tempted by the 1000.
    As for maps – I’d strongly suggest buying your Garmin package with the ordanance survey maps. You get the whole of the UK in 1:50 scale.
    OS is about as good as maps get in my book, loads easier to pick out stuff like streams, churches etc if you get yourself a bit lost.
    Really handy for stuff like hiking and what have you too.
    Buying the maps preloaded on the Garmin is way cheaper than buying the map on a micro sd from the Ordanance Survey afterwards..

    September 8, 2015 at 12:13 pm #858953
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    PaulBox

    Thanks to you both, very
    Thanks to you both, very useful, especially the free maps 🙂

    I had no idea that the 520 did mapping, shame it doesn’t take a memory card or I would probably have gone for one of those.

    September 7, 2015 at 4:28 pm #858951
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    Adlopa

    The 810 will give
    The 810 will give turn-by-turn directions with TCX files, but they seem to be hit and miss unless I create them myself using Ride With GPS, or similar. I don’t think Strava will export TCX files (will it?), only GPX and they don’t give TbT directions.

    All this may have been fixed with the latest firmware, though — I haven’t put it to the test yet.

    Open Street Map is your best free bet for Edge maps. Take a look at [url=http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/05/download-garmin-705800810.html]this guide[/url].

    September 7, 2015 at 12:33 pm #858949
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    thereverent

    The Garmin 810 will take
    The Garmin 810 will take routes in a TCX format, which you can export from Strava routes. But I’m not sure you get the turn-by-turn prompts (just the route shown on the map), Strava may have fixed that by now. Otherwise use Ridewithgps.com or similar.
    I’ve found the base maps ok on my 1000, but haven’t used it outside the UK.

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