Poll : Curious about the Zumo XT2 ? Read on....

For help and advice on the Garmin Zumo XT2.

Your current satnav / route planning software (Two answers)

Current Satnav - Zumo XT (not XT2)
20
27%
Current Satnav - Zumo 590 / 595 / 390 / 395 /396
5
7%
Current Satnav - Zumo 660 / 665 or earlier
3
4%
Current Satnav - Other Satnav
4
5%
Current Satnav - None
0
No votes
Current Route Planner - Basecamp / Mapsource
27
36%
Current Route Planner - Garmin Explore
1
1%
Current Route Planner - Web based software eg MRA, Kurviger, etc
11
15%
Current Route Planner - Google Maps / Other
3
4%
Current Route Planner - None
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 74

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Re: Poll : Curious about the Zumo XT2 ? Read on....

Post by jfheath »

Creating a Track from a Route - Is it Impossible with Tread ?

Answer. I think so.

The only way that I have managed to do this is to use Basecamp:

Make a route in the Tread App using waypoints, shaping points and via points, and (setting your segment route preferences if you are so inclined).
Let the route synch with the XT2.
Access the Route and use the spanner tool to make a copy - as a safeguard : any changes to the route are immediately synched with The Tread app and the original is lost forever.
Connect the XT2 to the computer with the USB cable and transfer Current.gpx to a list in Basecamp.
Select the route and create a track. Transfer the track to the XT2 in the old fashioned way.

Really, Garmin ? Am I missing something ? Query sent.

Reply received. First pointing me to a page which showed me how to create a route
A second reply pointing me to how to import a track (not how to make one)
Third reply informing me that it is not possible to create a track from a route in the Tread App.
Have owned Zumo 550, 660 == Now have Zumo XT2, XT, 595, 590, Headache
Use Basecamp (mainly), MyRouteApp (sometimes), Competent with Tread for XT2, Can use Explore for XT - but it offers nothing that I want !

Links: Zumo 590/5 & BC . . . Zumo XT & BC
jfheath
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Re: Poll : Curious about the Zumo XT2 ? Read on....

Post by jfheath »

I have moved the discussion about the weird double route line that was originally here, to its own thread :

viewtopic.php?t=3005

jfheath
Have owned Zumo 550, 660 == Now have Zumo XT2, XT, 595, 590, Headache
Use Basecamp (mainly), MyRouteApp (sometimes), Competent with Tread for XT2, Can use Explore for XT - but it offers nothing that I want !

Links: Zumo 590/5 & BC . . . Zumo XT & BC
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