GPS Mapping

[User269]

Bikeroutetoaster is brilliant, I've just been playing with it having briefly looked at it in the past. It's just what I needed for creating routes and having an idea of the ascent and total time, especially for trips in the Alps etc. I'm happy to have paid for MapSource, which 'upgrades' my Edge, but why does anyone pay extra for MemoryMap, tracklogs etc. unless they're routing off road? I also had a quick look at routeyou.com, and will take a look at bikehike.
Thanks everyone.

 

[jimboalee]

Does anyone else have the same grief as I do when downloading a .gpx to the Garmin Edge?
The file loads OK, but when the Edge builds the route, it takes unexpected detours ??

Yeh, Garmin 'de'struction manual is CRAP.
That's the fun of Garmin, discovering the unknown

 

[User269]

Yeh, Garmin 'de'struction manual is CRAP.

What instruction manual?

 

[Bollo]

Bikeroutetoaster is brilliant, I've just been playing with it having briefly looked at it in the past. It's just what I needed for creating routes and having an idea of the ascent and total time, especially for trips in the Alps etc. I'm happy to have paid for MapSource, which 'upgrades' my Edge, but why does anyone pay extra for MemoryMap, tracklogs etc. unless they're routing off road? I also had a quick look at routeyou.com, and will take a look at bikehike.
Thanks everyone.

Are you uploading straight from bikeroutetoaster to the edge? I've had problems with tracks uploaded from any source that isn't mapsource because there can be a mis-registration of the garmin and the (for example) google representations of the same road. This isn't a problem most of the time, but the garmin can end up showing you going cross-country while you're on a road (the 'nearest road' option helps but isn't perfect) and more importantly it often screws the autorouting at junctions. (lots of U-turn!)

That's why I prefer route planning in almost anything other than mapsource, but always put the final course through mapsource to make sure it follows the road representation used by the garmin.

This is totally a preference thing, but I just get a better feel for a route if its plotted on an OS map, rather than google maps or the crappy mapsource maps.

If anyone's a code monkey, the tcx is just xml and you can grab the schema off the garmin site. I -think- you can then import this into excel as xml from the 'data' menu, but for me life is a bit too short.

 

[Bollo]

Does anyone else have the same grief as I do when downloading a .gpx to the Garmin Edge?
The file loads OK, but when the Edge builds the route, it takes unexpected detours ??

Yeh, Garmin 'de'struction manual is CRAP.
That's the fun of Garmin, discovering the unknown

Might have just answered this.

I've had a beatch about the manual before. Its not even big enough and the paper is too shiny even to use as @rse paper. I suppose it could prop up a wobbly table.

 

[jimboalee]

I think Garmin rely on their unit's menus being 'user friendly' which they're not.

I write my own instructions on a Word .doc

 

[Bollo]

I've just got round to uploading the latest Mapsource update and they've improved the map rendering. Its very 'google maps' now, but I was hoping for a choice to disable individual feature types. Still, much better, especially for poor colour-blind me.

 

[jimboalee]

Lets us know if you find some delays in the software when editing a route?

 

[andrew_s]

The word from elsewhere is that the new rendering makes it run like a dog if your PC isn't of the latest.

 

[jimboalee]

When building and editing routes wit Mapsource 6.14.1 , disconnect your PC from the internet.
I have a wireless hub and a Sony Vaio laptop with a wireless on/off switch. After I've constructed the basic route alongside ViaMichelin, I flick the connection off and Mapsource operates a little quicker to edit the route. Better if Mapsource is the only package running.