Keeping routes from my route app identical with my GARMIN ZUMO XT2

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Aggelos-Minoudis
Yes, see the map layers

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Dear Hans, I've just transferred a route from MYroute to Garmin as a gps 1.1 file and they re identical. Please can you tell me on Garmin device how to make the track visible? ill turn the recalculation off. Also what do you mean when the route points are on a technical good place on the road to set recalc. on again? Why shouldn't I leave it on all the time? Thanx for your patience

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

Go to tracks on your device, open the track you want to edit, click on make visible. Place points after a roundabout, intersection or road junction

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Hi again , I managed to have visible the track and the route when I put both the track and the route at the same file in collections. Now I see the magenta line is not identical with the track line. What do I do now when I’ll navigate? Can I follow the track line at the points that two lines divide each other ? Or only the magenta line is driveable ? Thnx again

[Marinus van Deudekom]

The trackline would be the indication if you’re on the wright track

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Marinus hi ,
So when magenta drives me somewhere else, I’ll follow the track line right ?

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Aggelos-Minoudis yep but normally the both must be close to one another

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Thanks a lot Marinus!

[Guzt]

You probably use the Tread app to synchronise your routes. If you do, they will always be different as the Tread app recalculates your route. Save your route gpx 1.1 directly on the SD in the XT2 and import it using the app.

[Guzzist]

@Aggelos-Minoudis hmmm - looks like, you need to learn/understand basics how route planning and navigation works. May I help you by easy words:

A route is a collection of points, defined by gps coordinates and called exactly as "rtept" (route points). A navigation app or device calculates a direction from one point to the next one, using street information in a map. And presenting it as a line as overlay on the map. Garmin is showing this line mostly in purple colour, with orange flag icons for each route point. Mostly navigation apps/devices can only handle limited amount of route points.
Very often, people are talking about this points as waypoints; but this is technically not correct.

A track is also a collection of points, defined by gps coordinates but called exactly as "trkpt" (track points). A navigation app or device is not calculating a direction from one point to the next point. But is presenting it as a line as overlay on the map. Garming let you select o colour in the settings, and only the first- and the last point will be presented in map. Usage of track points is mostly not limited.
A track is usually a recorded file during a ride.

Additionally you can enter POI (Point's of Interrest) out of a collection (gas stations, hotels, restaurants, etc.) - these are called exactly as "wpt" (way points). A navigation app or device is not calculating a direction from one point to the next point. But is presenting such points as a icon as overlay on the map.

You can save a created route in MRA-Routeplanner as gpx 1.1 fike at your computer. Then open it as simple text file (may by notepad) - then you can see it: in the file, there is the route as well as the track. And if you have entered POI - there are also included in gpx file.

If you are using MyRoute-App for navigation, you could be lucky, because this app is also able to guide/route you by a track!

If you are going to transmit a route or a track by gps file to a Garmin device, you can do this by USB, copy to SD-Card, Bluetooth or WiFi - based by device type. For a Gamin-XT, I mostly used the Garmin app "Drive" (Bluetooth). But Garmin has developed the system/app "Explore" (Wifi) resp. Thread App (Bluetooth), to be used for future - starting with Garmin XT2!
But you need to know: "Explore" is a route planning system and is calculating transmitted routes by its own algorithm. Effect: transmitted route to the device is mostly different to your original planned route!

If you switch on in your XT2 preferences, to populate both, route and track on screen. Then you will see probably a difference between track and route (because the track will never be recalculated). To prevent this, use more route points during planning. To not overspent capability of garmin device, use more "shaping points" and less "via points" in MRA-Routeplanner.

[Aggelos Minoudis]

@Guzt said in Keeping routes from my route app identical with my GARMIN ZUMO XT2:

You probably use the Tread app to synchronise your routes. If you do, they will always be different as the Tread app recalculates your route. Save your route gpx 1.1 directly on the SD in the XT2 and import it using the app.

Hi Guzt,
Thanx mate, but I don't use tread at all. I just export it from myrouteapp as gpx 1.1 to my Garmin XT2, I installed an app that MacBook sees my Garmin as an android device, so in Garmin xt2 file gpx I drop them there and they are automatically stored.