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Yeah it beeps but that's when i told it to take me to (postcode).
What I mean is, that I'm not sure it will beep and give turn by turn directions when I've got it set to follow a route. Does it do that? If so and it proved reliable then I could ditch the P2m and the Garmin Edge units.
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Yeah should do mate. Should be same as 1000 when route loaded onto it. Test it.
Won't be any more reliable than 1000. Just different.
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I'm not sure it will beep and give turn by turn directions when I've got it set to follow a route
On my eTrex Touch there are two types of route it can do
- GPX track
- GPX route
The GPX route will do turn by turn with beeps for turnings and textual descriptions etc., but seems to basically be a sequence of points and the eTrex is responsible for routing between them and generating the direction cues. Great if it gets it right, super annoying if it doesn't. Also because it engages the routing engine, I found it a bit slow.
The GPX track is just a line on the map, as you've drawn it. If you save waypoints as well as the track then you'll get told what the next waypoint is etc which you can sort of use as a homebrew turn by turn nav. Also the waypoints just get added to the general device catalogue of waypoints so if you have overlapping routes it just gets messy and I have no idea how it knows which waypoints to tell you about when you're riding.
I think TCX courses might be a sort of combination of the above, but the eTrex doesn't do those.
ridewithgps has various options for export and the one that I found worked best was "GPX track" with "Include cues as waypoints" ticked. YMMV.
- GPX track
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rhowe
Does it beep? Sure tones aren't just turned off?
I deleted the standard maps off teh device and use my SD card with the EU map on SD card, work fine.