Help adding POIs to Garmin 1000

[jay clock]

I have Garmin 1000 that I use for navigation by creating a GPX file in Ride With GPS. After a fair bit of fiddling I have all that sorted and use it successfully

RWGPS allows me to add a POI in a course such as here https://ridewithgps.com/routes/18458357

What I am looking for is how to make those POIs pop up somehow when following a GPS course. I am leading a group to Normandy and for a full day's course I want to add POIs saying things like possible detour to XYZ town

Any ideas?

Jay

 

[double_dd]

It's funny - I want to remove the pre-loaded POI's if you know how to do that??

 

[Bollo]

Hi Jay,

I don't know my way around the 1000 too well but it doesn't sound like something any of the Garmins would do out of the box. It *might* be worth checking out the Garmin Connect IQ app 'store' as the 1000 now supports 3rd party apps. It's unlikely there'll be anything in there that will interact directly in the map view, but you might find something that solves your problem in a different way.

I had a play with the IQ software development kit on my 520. It's more focused on the wearables - the ability to get under the hood of their bike computers is quite limited at the mo' but would be great in the future if and when they open out more core functionality to 3rd party developers.

(I've not been shunning your rides, honest! I don't do icy and also knackered a knee over Christmas, so have been off the roads. The knee is better at least so will try and roll down your way one Sunday soon)

 

[dim]

I've created a few courses on my Edge 1000 (ride with GPS) and added some POI such as 'halfway' .... downhills ... uphill for 10km etc

none of the alerts have ever worked ....

 

[jay clock]

I've created a few courses on my Edge 1000 (ride with GPS) and added some POI such as 'halfway' .... downhills ... uphill for 10km etc

none of the alerts have ever worked ....

my exact need! I can live without though, but if someone has a cunning plan....

 

[jay clock]

Hi Jay,

I don't know my way around the 1000 too well but it doesn't sound like something any of the Garmins would do out of the box. It *might* be worth checking out the Garmin Connect IQ app 'store' as the 1000 now supports 3rd party apps. It's unlikely there'll be anything in there that will interact directly in the map view, but you might find something that solves your problem in a different way.

I had a play with the IQ software development kit on my 520. It's more focused on the wearables - the ability to get under the hood of their bike computers is quite limited at the mo' but would be great in the future if and when they open out more core functionality to 3rd party developers.

(I've not been shunning your rides, honest! I don't do icy and also knackered a knee over Christmas, so have been off the roads. The knee is better at least so will try and roll down your way one Sunday soon)

you are too fast though!

 

[Crackle]

I think you will need to use coursepoints and export it as a tcx file, this will give you custom warnings but it depends on whether the 1000 will deal with tcx files, it seems to vary between units.

 

[jay clock]

great will try that!

 

[jay clock]

OK possibly found something in RWGPS. When looking to export as a GPX track there is an option called Include POI as waypoints?. I cannot do this without a paid membership which is 60USD a year. Anyone have a subscription? Or another site where I can do that for free?

Jay

 

[Tight Git]

At your POI try a short reversal of the route then reverse it again so you are travelling in the right direction? This should flag up as an off course warning alarm assuming it's the same as an 800 off course warning.

Never done this but it might work!

 

[jay clock]

At your POI try a short reversal of the route then reverse it again so you are travelling in the right direction? This should flag up as an off course warning alarm assuming it's the same as an 800 off course warning.

Never done this but it might work!

nice idea. Presumably this would only give an off course message though, not any thing like 'half way" or "massive hill"?

 

[Tight Git]

Yes - I was thinking you would probably know what the warning was for! Unless you were going to have lots of them on each ride...

 

[jay clock]

Yes - I was thinking you would probably know what the warning was for! Unless you were going to have lots of them on each ride...

i often get slightly random off course warnings where RWGps has taken me a tiny bit different from the actual route, but your idea could work if I was to put say 3 such loopbacks in a 100m section. Clever

i can add course points on bike hike but when i export into RWgps they are not there. Will try putting direct from bike hike to the device tomorrow and seeing if i can get it to work in different formats

 

[Crackle]

As I wanted to do this myself, your post has brought it forward on my list. tcx files don't work on my 810, which is apparently a known problem.

I remembered I'd used this site a while ago

http://www.gpxeditor.co.uk/

It allows you to load a gpx file, add a waypoint and save it again. On doing this, I can see the waypoint on the course map on my unit now. I'll test if it pops up tomorrow.

 

[jay clock]

Thanks. I just created a route on Bikehike.co.uk and saved it as tax, gpx route and gpx track. Only allows preset ones like left turn, plus a generic. Not sure which format it was but most if not all the POIs were visible on the map but did not pop up with an alert. What I ideally want is an alert that pops up to say something like "optional divert" where I have a different route programmed in the event that a road looks better in reality than it did online. Or "nice pub"!

Will look at that site