57 Show Tracks without EXPLORE

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Showing Tracks and Routes on the same screen - if Explore is not set up.

All instructions assume the XT is held in Landscape Orientation, and that anything transferred to the Zumo XT is transferred to internal storage rather than to the SD card.

Showing a Track and a Route on the same screen is quite straight forward:


  • Prepare your Trip in Basecamp. Select your Route and make it into a Track
    • (from the pop up menu when right clicking on the route)

     

  • Rename them if you wish.
    • Remember that the XT may show only the first characters of long names.

     

  • Transfer the Route and the Track to the Zumo XT to internal memory.
    • Remember that any previously transferred Trips may be overwritten if they were transferred in a different USB session

     

  • Unlike Routes, there is no need to import tracks that have been transferred to internal memory.
    • Tracks stored on the SD card are not imported automatically.
    You have to click the spanner tool when the list of tracks is displayed, and then choose import.
    This reveals the list of tracks on the SD card that are available.

    Load the Track.


    Either of these:-

  • Main Screen -> Track -> 2 Pin Icon, top left
  • Main Screen -> Apps -> Tracks
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    Then:

    Select the track you wish to display. Ignore the GO! button.

    Click the Spanner icon, top left.

    Three menu options of interest are shown in the Pic1 on the right.

  • Set Colour - select a colour for this track.
  • Track Width - the same setting is applied to all tracks.
  • Show on Map

    • Load your route in the normal way.

    Navigating with a Route AND a Track Loaded


    The screen images below show the magenta route at the points where it deviates from the original. The original route is marked by the red track. When the track was created, it followed exactly the same course as the Magenta Route. At some point, the route has been recalculated.


    Pic 3 shows the magenta route has been recalculated to turn right. The red track is revealed to show where the original route was plotted.

    Pic 4 shows the magenta route rejoining the original track. You have the option of following the red track (and ignore the satnav’s complaints) or the magenta route.


    The chances are that as soon as you fail to turn right, (Pic 3) the XT will recalculate a route identical to the red track

       

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    The information on these pages has been acquired from personal experience of using and testing the behaviour of Basecamp and my Zumo XT. I have no links with Garmin, and these pages should not be regarded as instructions. They are presented for interest only. The contents of these pages must not be shared, copied, transmitted, redistributed or re-published in any form without my permission. (C) JHeath 2021.