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Several websites actually create a Track when you create a route, most likely because they use auto routing to paths/roads, so have 1000’s of points, which will exceed the limits of a Route in a Garmin etc.Ĭycling to points of interest that you have highlighted and then decide off the cuff that you want to visit them from your current location? The latter is a feature of the mapping in the device (if any). The former is nothing more than a linked list of points (typically up to 100 points maximum, but depends on the model of the GPS device). You get a linked set of waypoints (strictly speaking routepoints), and bearing or pointer and distance to the next in the list.ĭon’t confuse a GPX Route with GPS routing. That’s exactly what I do with my (older) Garmin eTrex (Viast Hcx?).
Gps tracks vs routes Pc#
I guess I’m now asking can a PC generated route be transferred to a GPS unit ( I could really creating a pictorial/longer explanation of this as it comes up often) Posted 3 years ago * If the PC application or website you use to create the Route uses a different map, with different lines to your GPS device then the latter might not use the same Route between the Waypoints as the PC application/website. You can create Tracks on PCs and websites but the large number of interim points required to follow a windy path makes it difficult to do on a GPS device. You can create Routes on GPS devices and on PCs and websites. In fact, most GPS devices let you reverse it so you can find your way back to the start). (The thing you record as you ride or walk is also a Track. Your GPS won’t try to find a way of routing, it just does Trackpoint to Trackpoint. It’s as if someone has already ridden or walked it and there are a larger number of interim “Trackpoints” showing the track almost exactly. With a Track, it doesn’t matter if your map show a path/track/road or not. If you use a different map, that shows no path/track/road between those two points, it’ll try to find another way round that includes a path/track/road, or show your way to be directly between them using whatever Routing algorithms your GPS includes.* If there is a path/track/road between your two Waypoints then the Route will follow that path/track/road. Consider a Route as a number of Waypoints with the actual path/track/road you ride being determined by the path/track/roads drawn on your map (it’s more complicated than this but it’ll do for now).