It seems smart phones are slowly becoming a dominant choice for GPS needs on a bike. I prefer my Garmin Nuvi 550 because it's waterproof, has survived some amazing crashes and still works exactly as the day I bought it - for $200 over 7 years ago! It does exactly what I want out of it and no less.Curious what you all are doing, are your routes exactly how they are in your planning tool to GPS, which GPS do you have?
It seems smart phones are slowly becoming a dominant choice for GPS needs on a bike. I prefer my Garmin Nuvi 550 because it's waterproof, has survived some amazing crashes and still works exactly as the day I bought it - for $200 over 7 years ago! It does exactly what I want out of it and no less.
For me, the routes I plot in Tyre are identical to the way it displays on my GPS. Using Tyre I can have the routes saved in any of the common formats like .gdb or .gpx and save them to the computer for later use or to send to people.
As an example, a route like this https://goo.gl/maps/ePZkUswy51q would take about 10 minutes to build and load to the GPS and show up exactly like this. As ReSTored mentioned - it's important to make sure you put enough waypoints down.
I've done 10 day trips down south and pre-loaded all my routes from home in this same way and completed the trips without any issues at all.
It seems smart phones are slowly becoming a dominant choice for GPS needs on a bike. I prefer my Garmin Nuvi 550 because it's waterproof...
I am using the standalone version. Not sure why they never made one compatible with the Mac.Nice route, this is what I would like to plot out.
When you say Tyre, are you using the standalone program, or the web based MyRoute APP
I am a Mac user so there is no Tyre version for me.
Interesting. Maybe that stems from the potential leakage from the power port on the bottom? I suspect that if I were to do a river crossing and drop the bike then it might fail when totally submerged. I can say that I have ridden on multi day trips, sometimes in torrential downpours for hours or days on end and the unit has been great.FWIW that Garmin Nuvi has a waterproof rating of IPX7 which means there is no certified protection rating.
Most newer smart phones have a higher rating than that.
@ I82I8 - My I am sure my TomTom XL doesn't have any water rating, it's gotten wet, doesn't seem to be a problem. Well so far..
Maybe this is off topic. I'll be shopping around for a new GPS for the bike. I have a TomTom XL old but works decently. I want to get into route planning and upload to the GPS. I have been using MyRoute App to create a route and export as itn file.
But the TomTom re-interpets it and changes the route, which I don't want it to do.
Curious what you all are doing, are your routes exactly how they are in your planning tool to GPS, which GPS do you have?
That's great. I'll definitely try it then.Furkot knows the difference and will insert the proper ones depending on which format you save it (it also knows new Garmin for ie 590 and 595 vs older format ie 660.
..Tom
So apparently you can't play around with Basecamp and garmin maps unless you have a authorized device. But you may be able to use Basecamp with open source maps instead.
Also from what I understand the Zumo line has waterproofing but would the non Zumo models have the same functions? Not sure how much I care for waterproofing.
So apparently you can't play around with Basecamp and garmin maps unless you have a authorized device. But you may be able to use Basecamp with open source maps instead.
Also from what I understand the Zumo line has waterproofing but would the non Zumo models have the same functions? Not sure how much I care for waterproofing.