Help for users of Garmin sat navs

Didn't know I could even convert tracks to routes!, thanks.

Click onto Where To?

Then you have a selection - go home, address, etc
If you select Personalise you can go in and find a selection called Towns.
This is the same as city centre on Tom Tom.
Why this is not already an option from first place is beyond me!!!

My wee hint for today.

 

My next one is for when you miss a way point because it was on the wrong side of the road, or you wish to restart a route half way along.
Add skip button to map screen.

Go to settings
Map and vehicle,
Scroll down to Map buttons,
Press on + sign,
Scroll to bottom and add SKIP.

Only downside is all way points are removed, but the route is still programmed. And you get distance to end, not distance to next way point displayed.

Anybody know how to get them back?

 

I have gold and use sygic, at the mo as I haven't got my garmin out the box yet, missing waypoints was always a problem as I hadn't put them accurately. I can go into the route and delete the rogue waypoint. It's a bit fiddly but do-able.
Don't you hate it when you've converted a track to a route and you're following it and you come across a detour and your waypoint is in the middle of the closed road!!
Have you noticed on my route app, how people put pictures of their lovely expensive bike . Start their tracks from home and don't put a little sign up saying knick me I'm here?? I never start a track from home.

 

Started a group on myroute-app - called Triumph Forum, invited you in Dougie D.

Instead of going in and deleting, you can use the skip function on the Garmin (if you take it out of the box)

I store all my routes on a SD card in the unit, that way if you have to delete points on route, when home you can delete the modified route and just load up the original. Had to do this the other week when they had closed a road, and my waypoint was on that road

 

I think mine default to private now, to share tracks you have to make them public

 

Something I've found on my Zumo:
Settings->Device->Clear Travel History
doesn't actually clear the tracks from the device.

They don't show up in the Track 'app' on the device's GUI after doing Clear Travel History.

But if you plug the device into a PC and stoke up BaseCamp, all the tracks are still there, including all the (cough) speeds you'v been doing. Don't know if such info can be used to make a case in court, or used in insurance disputes...

I've moaned to Garmin about this, and the 'solution' they offered was that I should do a device reset. Which removes all the settings, favourites etc. Not a solution at all IMHO.

 

Couldn't get basecamp to install on my laptop, gave up and just use MyRoute-App.

Set all my routes to friends, except off-road one's - don't want you trying to follow them !!!!!

 

Don't use tracks, just use import route and use from that. Track is for when you've been somewhere on a ride and then want to store for use at a later time ???

 

Yup! To put it simply.....My Way..... a track follows you live and you follow a recorded route. I find if I go out on a random ride I will set my myrouteapp to track on my phone, once finished I look it up on my pc and convert it to a route and iron out any mistakes double backs etc etc. The prob with tracks is they are not editable, its not really a prob its how it is.

 

If the zumo's Settings->Device->Travel History tick box is ticked, the zumo records a new track for each new journey.

Later, you can turn this track into a 'Trip' to ride the route again, or us it for the 'TracBack' feature to ride back the way you've come. Or you can share it with others using BaseCamp (or maybe some other PC software - I don't know...). All if which are good reasons to allow the zumo to record travel history (aka tracks).

My concern about this isn't that BaseCamp displays this stuff. My concern is that you can't delete it from the zumo itself.

So if you have an unfortunate incident, someone (maybe Mr Plod, maybe someone else) could grab your zumo, and find out your entire travel history. Where you've been, when, how fast, how fast you were travelling just before the incident, where your empty home is while you're recovering from the incident, where you work, which establishments of ill-repute you visit, etc, etc.

Here's a screenshot showing the level of detail the zumo records - a small part of which I've obfuscated

BTW, this shows a track on my zumo, that is supposedly deleted. I can't see it using the device's GUI (the Tracks app). But hey, there's the information, still on my zumo, ready for some curious person with a computer to rummage through...

 

I haven't tried myroute-app...