Your Garmin help, please

I've used tons of the online route mapping sites/apps, and the one I like the best (by quite a long way) is http://www.gpxeditor.co.uk/. Been using it for a few years now and still really happy with it.

I even made a development suggestion to the person who runs it and within the week it was there!

Put a new battery in my 800 last night and it hasn't exploded just yet.

Success.

The OP has an etrex which generally work better with gpx route files. I like the look of the gpxeditor website but i see it can only produce gpx track files which may not be best for an etrex user.

This may or not be useful to anyone else, but with time on my hands I seem to have traced my frequent Edge 810 crashes to the filesystem on the SD card being corrupted every time after connecting to my PC via USB. Even when 'safely removing' (unmounting) the USB device before unplugging.

The Windows filesystem check (via the SD card's Properties dialog) didn't seem to help, perhaps because Windows always mounts the drive and so the corruption occurs after it's run.

I've managed to fix it on a Linux system though.

fsck /dev/sdb1 -av

Personal success, and I only had to buy another PC, install and learn basic Linux.

Any alternatives to garmin.openstreetmap.nl? I think they lost a big server and queue times are loooong.

Sort of discussed indirectly a day or two ago in this thread.

Basically, either:

download a whole country from garmin.openstreetmap.nl's GUI if your device will support a file that size, as there'll be a direct download. Or you might be lucky if someone's already had a file prepared for a region of a country.

or install Garmin's BaseCamp application, and then download the BaseCamp compatible OSM map (see https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13550165/ for UK). BaseCamp will allow you to cut the map down and export it to your device.

The Strava route planner is quite slick, and available without the paid account. Allows you to export GPX/TCX, so not just for use within the app on a phone.

Nice: allows you to view a 'heatmap' which gives you a good idea of popular routes.

Not so nice: doesn't always distinguish surfaced roads from unsurfaced tracks, and popular routes may be busy commuter routes.

I've found it handy for getting an idea for ride routes in areas I'm not at all familiar with.

What region are you looking for? I may have it saved on onedrive.

London then as far south-west as Guildford and extending across to Tunbridge Wells (basically something which will cover this). I've got a 520, so I'm limited to (I think) 90mb.

Give me 10 minutes and I will put a map together.

Edit, may not be possible as I am away from a tool I need.

ah, no problem. I'm limited to chromebook so no applications. Sure I came across an alternative web-based solution a while ago though.

Message sent but for public view here is a link to your map.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuQoYFFpNeYUm1kjUYc7FR6-4wCl

Produced the map here and selected a bounding box.
https://extract.bbbike.org/

...and last minute success! Your maps wasn't showing up on my Garmin, but I downloaded another from the same site in the Garmin-OSM-Ascii format and they seem to be showing up now.

Thanks again!

I'm doing a race tomorrow that is 72.7 miles long. Can I set up my garmin to count down from 72.7 miles so I can see how much I have left?

Why not do it like this?

write each mile point, also with mile remaining next to it, and stick it on top tube.

Less chance for Garmin to go wrong.

There's a 'distance to end of route' field, but I'm sure it will get utterly confused by repeating laps

maybe, but i'd feel a bit of a melt doing that for a 2/3/4 race.

I've routed the course on ridewithGPS then I can just do it as a route. I guess that should work.

If you have the race route in the Garmin you can use Dist to Dest. under Course.

Did it work, or did it get confused by repeated laps?

It worked fine, but as it was laps it was fairly easy to understand how much further I had to go

Next time, just wear an earpiece and get your directeur sportif to inform you over the radio

Anyone tried using the Garmin workout creator ? Wanted to do 2x20 and thought i'd give the intervals a generous range (95-105% FTP) as power fluctuates so much on the road.
Still impossible to use though as it appears Garmin bases it on 1s power, which is all over the shop. Doesn't appear to be any way of using 30s power (or even better, lap NP).

Any alternatives ? The recent Training Peaks Creater/ConnectIQ app appears to be worse...

Updated my 1000 yesterday. As part of the update it said "do you want to re-set all user settings". I click no, it does it anyway. FFS. Struggling to recall what my data screen set up was but this doesn't look right. Goddammit Garmin.

After having a relatively trouble-free history with Garmin for the last 5 years my 520 has started deleting activities of it's own accord.

Last week, when stopped at a cafe, I switched the unit off to save some battery, when restarted everything was lost. Today I split the ride into a few sections and saved both, only to find once home and with the Garmin switched back on the activities have disappeared.

Anyone had luck with file recovery software with Garmins?

dynamic.watch/

dynamic.watch has a route plotter that works on a mobile and a widget that goes on the Garmin and then routes saved on the website can be pulled into the Garmin using Wifi or Bluetooth or taking them direct from RWGPS.

This is actually really good - once you've figured out how it works and what it's actually doing.