Your Garmin help, please

I don't have arrows, only those 5 things I said. How could I get arrows?

This is to do with the maps that are loaded.

Do this, menu, spanner icon, system, map, "map information select map.

Let me know what options you have.

Do you have a link to what was bought?

INTL Standard Basemap, NR
There should be a more detailed one being the Navigation pack right? I don't I can get one though. Is it a possibility of the retailer failing to load all the maps or is it a setup point of view/human error

INTL Standard Basemap, NR
There should be a more detailed one being the Navigation pack right? I don't I can get one though. Is it a possibility of the retailer failing to load all the maps or is it a setup point of view/human error

The basemap is on the garmins own internal memory, the detailed maps will be on a micro sd card. Is this in the garmin? or still in the box it came in?

Probs still in the box, the pleb
Thanks for all your help freezing77, I'll locate the SD card when I next see him and report back

ok so just ordered the 810. Anyone have it and what d'ya reckon?

bit late to be asking that now

bit late to be asking that now

My friend has it who thinks it's great so just wanted to get some more opinions on it really...

It's an 800 that talks to a phone. People have been rating 800s for a few years now.

I had an 800 and now have an 810. No major differences (except the bluetooth hookup as hippy mentioned and a slightly different interface). This logs your rides via your phone automatically to Garmin Connect but seems to reduce battery life a bit as expected. Also comes with a different mounting that sits in front of the bar. Get the 800 if you want to save some dollar as they're going cheap these days. Wouldn't say that it's worth the extra you pay for the 810.

So I've been using MapMyRide for routes and it works fine out in the countryside. Having used it for creating routes through London recently, I find that there is often a pink line which the 800 directs me down instead of following the purple line I plotted. Pretty. Fucking. Annoying.

I just tried using Bike Route Toaster and it freezes with a "Retrieving Route Information" message and a spinning circle thing in the top left corner. Also. Pretty. Fucking. Annoying.

Also just tried Garmin Basecamp, but only seem to have access to the crap maps that come installed with the 800.

Can anyone suggest where I am buggering this up?

So I've been using MapMyRide for routes and it works fine out in the countryside. Having used it for creating routes through London recently, I find that there is often a pink line which the 800 directs me down instead of following the purple line I plotted. Pretty. Fucking. Annoying.

I just tried using Bike Route Toaster and it freezes with a "Retrieving Route Information" message and a spinning circle thing in the top left corner. Also. Pretty. Fucking. Annoying.

Also just tried Garmin Basecamp, but only seem to have access to the crap maps that come installed with the 800.

Can anyone suggest where I am buggering this up?

To access detailed maps for basecamp go here http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

Choose generic routable, choose uk from the europe drop down box.
You will then get links to the windows exe file to install the maps on a pc, a link for the img file if you wish to place it on your garmin and also a link to a zip file for the map installer on a mac

That worked - thanks Freezing! It seems Basecamp is rubbish though. Any other suggestions?

I am more than happy with RideWithGps tbh.

Does it do turn by turn with the free account? Previous posts suggested it did, but looking at their account comparison suggests otherwise.

Does it do turn by turn with the free account? Previous posts suggested it did, but looking at their account comparison suggests otherwise.

Yep. I've navigated around 3 or 4 reliability ride courses using RideWith output files and the Edge 800 beeps at me.

http://www.lfgss.com/post3335346-425.html

Seems like a lot of faffing around! Thanks anyway though - I'll give that a go.

I just did another route across town for this evening using Garmin Connect. The route looks good when I made it. Sent it to my 800, took a look and there is a pink line that deviates from my course in a couple of places. Is this perhaps a configuration thing that I can switch off? Like I said, it works fine out in the country where I really need it, but always wants to take an alternative in town. I suppose this is because there are so many alternative ways of skinning this particular cat.

It only takes about a minute to load a gpx, click a few buttons and then download the new gpx file. It's worth doing for turn-by-turn nav, anyway.

I thought pink lines were previously ridden tracks, ie. you'd been there before.

Or perhaps they were rainbow-stripped dogging locations...

I don't think I have ridden these streets before. At least, not with my 800. I usually only use it on the road bike for out of town things but fancied trying it out in town this week and the pink line is driving me nuts. Perhaps an issue with MapMyRide maps not lining up exactly with the OSM I am using on the 800? Can't figure it out and I am usually pretty good with technical stuff.

I've never bothered to do any routing (haw haw) as I'm lazy. I just take someone else's route and follow it. Sorry I can't be more useful. Google ->

Thanks for your help anyway man. I'll persevere and see if I can find a way to kick this pink line into touch.

This week it told me to go through the square in front of Buckingham Palace. Perhaps I could sue Garmin when I get shot for that? Would probably be a job for my next of kin as I doubt those soldiers get that shit wrong.

Thanks for your help anyway man. I'll persevere and see if I can find a way to kick this pink line into touch.

This week it told me to go through the square in front of Buckingham Palace. Perhaps I could sue Garmin when I get shot for that? Would probably be a job for my next of kin as I doubt those soldiers get that shit wrong.

If you start a course and are not at the start of it you will see a straight line on your screen from your current location to the beginning of the course. This is perhaps what you are seeing on the screen.