Garmin Edge 100 - Adding planned routes?

[wheres_my_beard]

I have successfully followed a route I have ridden before using my Garmin, but, does anyone know how to upload a route/ course to this device?

I'm sure the more expensive ones do this really easily, but is their a long, complicated and ultimately infuriating process I can drudge through to upload a gpx file that I can follow on my little device?

 

[ianrauk]

There's no such thing as a Garmin Edge 100

 

[wheres_my_beard]

Good point; it's the 200.

 

[ianrauk]

ok, you draw a route on somewhere like bike hike.
Plug your Garmin into the computer.
Save the route as a tcx file to your computer then drag and drop the file in to the new files folder of the 200.

 

[ushills]

Yep, plot the route on bikeroutetoaster or ridewithgps and drop the gpx file into the courses folder..

 

[wheres_my_beard]

Is either .gpx and .tcx going to work any better? Will the number of points I click on the route planner have any bearing on how accurate the garmin will display the route?

 

[HLaB]

Is either .gpx and .tcx going to work any better? Will the number of points I click on the route planner have any bearing on how accurate the garmin will display the route?

tcx is similar to gpx but more clever; it contains more navigation tips like 'left/right' and RWGPS labels tcx's even better using actual street names.

 

[wheres_my_beard]

I'll give it a good tickering with tomorrow, and see what it's capable of doing. Thanks for the help.

 

[wheres_my_beard]

Well, it turns out that its very straight forward to do.

I'll be out for a nice planned ride with my Dad tomorrow without having to worry about directions now

 

[PoweredByVeg]

Well, it turns out that its very straight forward to do.

I'll be out for a nice planned ride with my Dad tomorrow without having to worry about directions now

We'll have to chat about this one Tuesday evening

 

[wheres_my_beard]

I had mixed success with the navigation to be honest, but it was reasonably reliable. Enough for a 300km ride over night? I'm not convinced!

 

[ianrauk]

I had mixed success with the navigation to be honest, but it was reasonably reliable. Enough for a 300km ride over night? I'm not convinced!

What do you mean mixed success?

 

[HLaB]

With the 800 you need to activate the off course warning, do you need to do that with the 200/500? Its not ideal but with that activated and being careful not to stray too far off path, itd be fine for 300km IMO; my old 305 (similar to 500) has been fine for plenty of 200km rides the longest I can recall was around 240km.

 

[wheres_my_beard]

It may have been the GPS signal strength rather than the mapping, but its disconcerting when you seem to go way off course randomly even though you are on the right road (luckily l tested this on a route I'm half familiar with). Obviously on roads you don't know, with the low mapping detail on the 200 you could end up chasing your tail trying to get back on course when you're not actually off it or going way way off accidentally.

 

[fossala]

Obviously on roads you don't know, with the low mapping detail on the 200 you could end up chasing your tail trying to get back on course when you're not actually off it or going way way off accidentally.

Happened to me on the 800. Typed in the name of somewhere I wanted to go, sent me round in circles because it kept saying I was off course. I got very confused.