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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2009 21:23:20 GMT
Hi all, I was lucky enough to get one of these from my girlfriend for Christmas and am having a few early difficulties with it! I have been using bikely.com to set up maps and then transfer to the Garmin as a gpx file, however the unit is getting lost on routes and sending me the wrong way! When i re-checked the bikely route it looked fine i.e. the route flowed along the roads i wanted it to, but when i re-checked the visual map mode on the garmin and went through each of the points on the route, they differed. The purple guidance line was not the same route as that on bikely! Anyone have any ideas or know of any better internet software to download rides? Many thanks Sean
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2009 21:30:12 GMT
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Post by Michael "HummingBird" Sanders on Dec 28, 2009 22:25:19 GMT
Hi Sean, Welcome to the world of satnav for bicycles The problem with using Bikely is that it will produce a GPX file based on its own mapset, which may be slightly different to the one in your GPS. This makes the GPS's behaviour erratic as it will try to follow points that are not on the roads it knows about. I'm presuming you've gotten the Garmin City Navigator Europe mapset with the GPS. I'd advise you to download and use MapSource, which can work with the exact maps you have. MapSource is a bit quirky but works well enough. Download: www8.garmin.com/support/mappingsw.jspI've found the easiest way to produce a good route is to use the Route tool; just point and click your route on the map and MapSource will pick appropriate roads between your clicks. Hope this helps, - Michael
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2009 23:22:55 GMT
The problem with using Bikely is that it will produce a GPX file based on its own mapset, which may be slightly different to the one in your GPS. This makes the GPS's behaviour erratic as it will try to follow points that are not on the roads it knows about. Thanks for this tidbit Michael, it may explain why our L2P ride was a little wide of the mark on occasion. I used Bikely to map out the route and it wasn't reliable enough to rely on despite very accurate point to point mapping in Bikely. ¬¬¬
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Post by andyw on Dec 29, 2009 11:11:52 GMT
My guess is that you have recalculate routes option switched on. I always have this turned off so that it will always keep me on the track i set. That way you also get around the discrepancies between map sets. Gpsies and bikely are definitely the best way i've found to create routes with their "follow road" options but as said they don't always match up to the mm. One other thing make sure you're downloading the route as a gpx track rather than a gpx route - the 705 can't cope with routes that have more than 100 way points but they can cope with as many track points as you want. Weird.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2009 9:37:11 GMT
Many thanks for the helpful comments. I have the City Navigator NT disc as you say Michael which seems to work well with Bikehike which i tried for yesterday's ride. It all sounds very peculiar that it can only take 100 way points for a route and 17000 for a course??!! I've also turned off he recalculating option as that does get a bit frustrating when it continues for 3 hours during a ride! I'll have a try with MapSource too. Thanks again all. Sean
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Post by Michael "HummingBird" Sanders on Dec 30, 2009 10:26:20 GMT
Just a bit of info about waypoints vs route points. The reason there's a limitation to just 100 waypoints is because waypoints are visible at all times on the map, and can be used in as many routes as you like. Route points however are only visible when you're navigating that particular route.
I use waypoints very sparingly, only for meaningful things that I want visible on the map at all times regardless of whether I'm navigating or not. For example, home, friends houses, cafes & Fanny's Farm Shop, event HQs etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 9:35:36 GMT
I've found marking up a route on Google then matching it on the bikeroutetoaster.com to build the export file as good as anything. Not tried MapSource though as I'd given up on the Garmin website...
I must admit I came close to taking back my Garmin. They do have quirks and really aren't good at recalculating routes on the fly but give it a couple of weeks and you get to know what they can do well and realise what they can't. Once you know that they're an excellent bit of kit.
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