Right,
Im off to the Lakes tomorrow for a week and I am having a few issues with the Garmin 605 that im hoping one of you kind fellows could help me with, scenario as below...
Have TT routable maps downloaded onto Garmin
Drew a track in Basecamp around my local area as a test route
Exported to Garmin as a GPX track.
Load the route on the unit through 'where to'
Route shows as a line on the map (great)
Unit constantly tells me to head straight to the end of the track and there is a large pink line the map.
I have turned off 'road lock' and have it set to off road with 're calculate' set to off.
I dont mind following the breadcrumb trail but it just doesnt seem correct and obviously dont want to get caught out.
I have some GPX routes 'Skiddaw, Bdale Bash, Nan Bield etc' loaded onto the unit as well.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help much appreciated
Any ideas from the night shift.
Is there a setting I am overlooking on the unit itself.
Bearing in mind that you'll get more conflicting replies asking how to use a GPS than if you ask "what tyre?" 😀
Think you want to create it as a route rather than a track in Basecamp. Tracks and routes are treated differently in a GPS. The way I think of it a track records where you've been whereas a route tells you where to go. So a route looks at the next point in the list and tells you which way to go, either directly or via a road if you have rout able maps and follow roads enabled.
In use depending on the unit it can be more complex, for example if you're way off your route your unit may point you to the nearest point on the route rather than the next one if that makes sense?
Hope this helps.
See differences between tcx and gpx
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To be honest, I never managed to reliably navigate with my 605 (and I have with other Garmin's before and afterwards). Display on map rather than 'navigate' and take a paper map.
This is a guess and I'm interested in how you manage to fix but I would have thought that if you have created your own route and just want to follow it you would transfer to gpx then in gpx in the routing section turn on "direct" routing, go to the route and choose "show on map" then hit go and follow the line?
Not sure how you would get turn by turn but I believe you would need to transfer to gps as a .tcx file and this would allow turn by turn?
I haven't a clue what I'm talking about though!! It's just a guess 🙂
Please post how you manage to fix.
Cheers
Here goes:
Convert GPX file to TCX file (Gpsies if you haven't any software)
Copy to 'Courses' directory in Edge
Switch on Edge and choose 'Training', 'Courses' and pick the TCX file from the drop down and 'Do Course'
Follow pink line on screen
Don't forget to Start/Stop timer if you want to record the ride
<edit for nibby> TCX doesn't give turn by turn just a pink line to follow. Edge's have a history of behaving weirdly with GPX files and/or autorouting. To avoid this, many people only use TCX files but you need a bit of knowledge to understand what's going on.
Excellent boblo,
I have just had enough time to download my gpz files as tcx files before leaving.
Hopefully this sorts the issue out, are there any in unit settings that are capable of messing with the TCX course that I should enable/disable?
Thanks a lot
Not really but I would have beeps off, track up and recalc prompted. Other than that, follow the pink run....
Cheer's Boblo, trying to learn all this gps stuff. I'm confused 🙂
See link below, showing that tcx allows turn by turn?
http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/foolproof-course-navigation-on-the-garmin-edge-800/
HELP 🙂
Just a quick update,
I followed the advice of Boblo and had a cracking week in the Lakes following the course files on the 605. No wrong turns or complications, it was accurate and simple to follow the arrow on the pink line.
Cheers
