Your Garmin help, please

Nope. I have been following the course for maybe 5 miles or so (starting from the beginning) in town and the pink line decides there is a short cut. It usually joins up with what I wanted a short distance afterwards, but includes some really risky turns. I have re-route witched off. Do you lot not get this? I have some routes on my MapMyRide account i you fancy taking a look:

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/185531360

Nope. I have been following the course for maybe 5 miles or so (starting from the beginning) in town and the pink line decides there is a short cut. It usually joins up with what I wanted a short distance afterwards, but includes some really risky turns. I have re-route witched off. Do you lot not get this? I have some routes on my MapMyRide account i you fancy taking a look:

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/185531360

The link you have sent is only valid for your friends on mapmyride. I have sent you a request.

Nope. I have been following the course for maybe 5 miles or so (starting from the beginning) in town and the pink line decides there is a short cut. It usually joins up with what I wanted a short distance afterwards, but includes some really risky turns. I have re-route witched off. Do you lot not get this? I have some routes on my MapMyRide account i you fancy taking a look:

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/185531360

Post a screenshot of the garmin screen.
** How do I take a screenshot on my Edge 800? **

The Edge 810, 800 and 510 have the capability of capturing screenshots on most pages and screen operations. Quickly pressing the power button will save screenshots once the Screen Capture setting is turned On. When the beep is heard, release from the Power button.
To turn Screen Capture on:

• Touch the Setup men (tool icon)
  
• Press System
  
• Press Display
  
• Press Screen Capture
  
• Select On
  
• Press OK (or ) on message screen
  
  

To view the screenshot(s) on a computer:

• Connect Edge to computer via USB cable
  
• Select Edge drive
  
• Open Garmin folder
  
• Open Scrn folder
  
  

Any screenshot saved from a device will be located in this folder as a .bmp file.

Nope. I have been following the course for maybe 5 miles or so (starting from the beginning) in town and the pink line decides there is a short cut. It usually joins up with what I wanted a short distance afterwards, but includes some really risky turns. I have re-route witched off. Do you lot not get this? I have some routes on my MapMyRide account i you fancy taking a look:

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/185531360

I have looked at the gpx files for two of your courses.
Your Battersea! commute is 15 miles long and has 50 via points.
Your HH to home is 9 miles long and has 1550 via points.
When you load a gpx to your 800 it recalculates and routes you thru your via points.
I suspect the issue you are having is due to having too few via points therefore the 800 is sending you the way it wants rather than your chosen route. Maybe!!!!

Ok, I'm really new to all this GPS lark, so apologies for the newbity.

I just got an Oregon 450. Used it on a century ride, pretty great apart from the battery life, but I've now found the battery save mode. I plotted a course on Google maps, exported as a KML and converted to GPX. This just gave me a course, with no points along it.

When I decided to deviate from that course a couple of times and just used the 'nearby cities' feature to navigate to a town on route, it started beeping when approaching turns and coming out of sleep mode to tell me to turn, all very clever.

My question is, how do I get this function on routes I've planned, I assume I need to add it points, and it'll then give me prompts when I approach these? How do you that?

Ok, I'm really new to all this GPS lark, so apologies for the newbity.

I just got an Oregon 450. Used it on a century ride, pretty great apart from the battery life, but I've now found the battery save mode. I plotted a course on Google maps, exported as a KML and converted to GPX. This just gave me a course, with no points along it.

When I decided to deviate from that course a couple of times and just used the 'nearby cities' feature to navigate to a town on route, it started beeping when approaching turns and coming out of sleep mode to tell me to turn, all very clever.

My question is, how do I get this function on routes I've planned, I assume I need to add it points, and it'll then give me prompts when I approach these? How do you that?

There are many types of GPX files but for the Oregon there are probably only the two that matter. There is a GPX track and a GPX route, the beeping etc at turns is because when you chose to set up a course on the device it created a "route". Most GPX files you download from mapping sites are GPX track files.

A gpx track file
gpxx:TrackExtension
gpxx:DisplayColorDarkGray/gpxx:DisplayColor
/gpxx:TrackExtension

A gpx route file

Wayneflete Tower Avenue to Pelhams Walk

gpxx:RouteExtension
gpxx:IsAutoNamedtrue/gpxx:IsAutoNamed
gpxx:DisplayColorMagenta/gpxx:DisplayColor
/gpxx:RouteExtension
trp:Trip
trp:TransportationModeBicycling/trp:TransportationMode
/trp:Trip


2013-01-07T20:22:49Z
Wayneflete Tower Avenue
Waypoint

trp:ViaPoint
trp:CalculationModeShorterDistance/trp:CalculationMode
trp:ElevationModeStandard/trp:ElevationMode
/trp:ViaPoint
gpxx:RoutePointExtension
gpxx:Subclass0600AD00C5038800EC000D24FF002388C1B C/gpxx:Subclass

gpxx:Subclass0600AD00C5038A1A070021160000C600790 0/gpxx:Subclass
/gpxx:rpt

gpxx:Subclass0600AD00C5038A1A07001F000A0070754A0 0/gpxx:Subclass
/gpxx:rpt

gpxx:Subclass0600AD00C5035E1A07001F060A004E62720 0/gpxx:Subclass
/gpxx:rpt






gpxx:Subclass0600AD00C5035E1A07001F0009004025200 0/gpxx:Subclass
/gpxx:rpt




gpxx:Subclass0600AD00C5035E1A0700211700009700200 0/gpxx:Subclass
/gpxx:rpt
/gpxx:RoutePointExtension



2013-01-07T20:22:52Z
Pelhams Walk
Waypoint

trp:ViaPoint
trp:CalculationModeShorterDistance/trp:CalculationMode
trp:ElevationModeStandard/trp:ElevationMode
/trp:ViaPoint
gpxx:RoutePointExtension
gpxx:Subclass0600AD00C5039E00E0000D24FF00C387AAB B/gpxx:Subclass
/gpxx:RoutePointExtension

A track file is a dumb file and the oregon just shows the way from one track point to the next. A typical track file may contain 500-5000 track points.
A route file is an intelligent file in the sense that your Oregon is actively calculating the route, this is more battery intensive than following a track.

The two examples above follow exactly the same path on the ground.

Does anyone have any experience using external battery pack with their garmin 800? I need to make mine last ~24hrs.

Garmin seem to sell an external pack for about £60, but does anyone know of any other options? Or have any general advice?

Freezing, that's a great explanation, thanks a lot!

Freezing, that's a great explanation, thanks a lot!

Garmins own program basecamp, a free download, allows the creation of route type gpx files and also the conversion of gpx tracks into routes. These can then be exported directly to the Oregon.

So is there any way of creating a 'track' and not have the Oregon put battery power in to constantly calculating the route, but have it wake up from sleep mode and beep to alert you to an upcoming turn, for instance (which I guess would have to be previously specified in Basecamp)?

If not this is no biggie as I can just tap the screen when needed to wake it up.

Does anyone have any experience using external battery pack with their garmin 800? I need to make mine last ~24hrs.

Garmin seem to sell an external pack for about £60, but does anyone know of any other options? Or have any general advice?

There are a few out there and they all work well. Maybe £30 at the most. I remember that I could not make the Garmin brighter in the evening the first time I used it. Diagnosed the reason for this and all fine on day two. Now of course I have forgotten again.

Does anyone have any experience using external battery pack with their garmin 800? I need to make mine last ~24hrs.

Garmin seem to sell an external pack for about £60, but does anyone know of any other options? Or have any general advice?

I've used a powermonkey with great effect - helped me out last 24hrs.

Does anyone have any experience using external battery pack with their garmin 800? I need to make mine last ~24hrs.

Garmin seem to sell an external pack for about £60, but does anyone know of any other options? Or have any general advice?

Yes. I used a Garmin one for last year's 24hr.
It does exactly what I expected.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/prod86599.html

Fucking hell. Garmin have "updated" the Calender on connect.. And it's shit. Looks like a 6th form project.

I found it awful at first but now it's starting to make more sense!
It looks like everything is more well aggregated and accessible to me.
But it looks shit, that for sure.

I hate you can't see the Titles (granted you can if you hover over but I want to see an overview). Just the distance and time

There are a few out there and they all work well. Maybe £30 at the most. I remember that I could not make the Garmin brighter in the evening the first time I used it. Diagnosed the reason for this and all fine on day two. Now of course I have forgotten again.

I've used a powermonkey with great effect - helped me out last 24hrs.

Yes. I used a Garmin one for last year's 24hr.
It does exactly what I expected.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/prod86599.html

Thank you chaps. Think I'll just bite the bullet and get the garmin one, seems to get good reviews.

Shout out to garmin customer service. Above and beyond.

Has anyone had experience with getting OSM maps onto a Garmin (I have a 705, but assume it's similar for the 500/800) for Majorca (or, for that matter, any other countries). I'm considering following the steps in this link, but if anyone has experience in the matter that would be appreciated

Select the tiles you're interested in here and copy them in the microSD card:
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

Lovely - looks like that does the job perfectly, thanks

I have the official Garmin maps installed (off the back of a lorry) and I'm planning on using planned .gpx tracks from RWGPS to re-trace other peoples rides, using turn navigation. Is there something i'm missing? This is new to me.

I have the official Garmin maps installed (off the back of a lorry) and I'm planning on using planned .gpx tracks from RWGPS to re-trace other peoples rides, using turn navigation. Is there something i'm missing? This is new to me.

For each course you download you need to set the course attributes, I would suggest something like this.

By default turn guidance is off, there is no way to turn it on as a global setting. Another garmin quirk.

By default turn guidance is off, there is no way to turn it on as a global setting. Another garmin BUG.

ftfy

have people used a edge 200 to navigate, how does it compare to the 500 for this task?

Thanks