Loading a pre- arranged route

marksfish · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 7:58 pm Post subject: Loading a pre- arranged route

I am going on a car rally at the weekend. The organisers have sent over a gpx file with the route on. How do I load that to my Garmin please?

Thanks

Mark
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marksfish · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 8:05 pm Post subject:

Should have Googled first Embarassed

So now I have loaded the two gpx files to the Garmin folder on my satnav. Google doesn't help me to use the route on these files now.

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sussamb · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 8:34 pm Post subject:

You need to put them in the GPX folder. Assuming you have a nuvi with trip planner they should then appear there.
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marksfish · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject:

Me again.

I have since found the route, hidden in Apps/ Trip Planner Smile

. Both trips are called Waypoint, so I can't differentiate them without opening the file Sad

. All of the waypoints are listed separately. If I select "Go", I am asked to "Select Next Destination". Can I not set it to navigate the entire route taking in the waypoints instead of having to interact at every one?
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sussamb · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 8:43 pm Post subject:

When asked to select a point and provided you have a recent nuvi once you reach the first point you select you will automatically be directed to the next and so on ...

You can rename the routes in trip planner.
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Kremmen · Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 4:44 am Post subject:

I'm doing a similar thing on Sunday.

I planned a route in Basecamp then shaped it to be the way I want to go (afs).

I've activated a silent .vpm

The object of the exercise is to have the Garmin display traffic for the whole route. Silent voice pack because I use the car Nav for the directions and any detours.

First time I've done it with a pre loaded route so will be interesting.
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marksfish · Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 5:10 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 7:19 pm Post subject:

The ALWAYS happens when you don't want it to.

marksfish · Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 5:41 pm Post subject:

Back from my trip, luckily I didn't get separated as there was an issue. There were quite a few waypoints in the file (110kms route). The problem I had was that the route didn't compute using roads, it just plotted a straight line between each of them Confused

. Not sure if it was me or the way the file was constructed?

Mark
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sussamb · Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 5:50 pm Post subject:

Probably an issue with the GPX file. Did you ever recalculate it? I suspect it was created using a map different to yours so if you didn't recalculate on your map it would have been straight lines.
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marksfish · Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 7:18 pm Post subject:

It was my first time using these files, I didn't know about re- calculating it, or how to do it. I shall have to have a look when I turn it on.

Mark
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