How to I transfer a route from Cycle.Travel to my Garmin Touring Edge Plus from a Macbook. I have downloaded the route from Cycle.Travel to the Macbook but cannot find a way to get it to the Garmin. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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How to I transfer a route from Cycle.Travel to my Garmin Touring Edge Plus from a Macbook. I have downloaded the route from Cycle.Travel to the Macbook but cannot find a way to get it to the Garmin. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I second this request, I'm baffled at how to load a route onto an Etrex 20 from a Macbook Pro. I understand that Safari is the problem for easy transfer, how is this overcome (in simple terms please)?
Thanks
I'll try and put together a guide in the next few days. I use an eTrex rather than an Edge but I'm guessing the procedure is similar!
I've found a workaround by downloading and using Google Chrome instead of Safari as the browser on the Macbook.
Richard- The route planner is a pleasure to use, thanks a lot.
Solution Found! thanks to Chris
Download GPX file from Cycle.Travel. It appears in Safari in Text- Save as .....gpx in Page Source. It will now appear in downloads.
Open Downloads
Connect Garmin to computer , Open Garmin and New Files. Drag file from Downloads to New Files. Eject Garmin. Reconnect Garmin and the route will be transferred to Courses as .fit file.
Actually the folder on the Garmin is called "NewFiles" and my experience is that you can only drop one at a time - irrespective of giving each a different file name. So you find that if you drag in 5 files you only get one course.
Yes this is true, sorry I forgot to mention it
Richard (or anyone else who can help)
I am a bit baffled as to how I can take a route generated on cycle.travel and plug it into my Garmin Trek. Can I download it directly to the device from cycle.travel or do I have to put it on my laptop first and then do it again on to my Garmin?
Many thanks for your patience
Bob
Re the immediately above question. I have seen the notes regarding Macs. My question refers to the possibility of downloading routes (say the C2C ) directly to my Garmin Tour from cycle.travel.
Thanks again,
Bob
I see that I have made a dumb mistake regarding my question at 14.08, yesterday. I said I would appreciate some help as to how to download a route onto my Garmin Trex. I should have said my Gamin Edge Touring device, not Trex. Is there an intermediate step between plotting my route on cycle.travel and my Garmin, or can I go directly from cycle.travel to my Garmin? I'm trying to keep things simple!
Thanks
Forgive me for coming back to the most basic of questions. How do I load a route from cycle.travel onto my Garmin Edge Touring? I have seen the instructions posted by readers for Macs, but I am using Windows. Perhaps I am struggling because I am of a generation who learns by following specific instructions, and not of the more intuitive sort. If I either create a route, or use on that has been generated by cycle.tour, do I simply plug the Garmin to the computer and click on 'download'? Will it then be available in the Garmin Touring? As always, I'm most grateful.
Bob
First of all, you need to download a GPX file from cycle.travel to your computer. For a route you’ve planned yourself, use the GPS button in the route-planner; for a route guide like the C2C, the GPX link is on the left of the introduction page.
Connect the Garmin to your computer. Then go to ‘My Computer’ on Windows and you will hopefully see it appear there as ‘Garmin’.
Open this; then open the folder in it called Garmin; then open the folder in it called NewFiles.
Then drag the GPX file you downloaded from cycle.travel into that folder.
Once it’s copied across, eject the Garmin from the computer. Now, you should be able to find the route in ‘Courses’ on your Garmin.
Let me know if that works – I don’t have a Windows computer to test on but think that should be right!
I'm having no luck with my garmin touring and the cycle.travel routes on a mac. I've done the above and copied to 'new files' but nothing showing in saved courses when I look.
I'm getting very frustrated. Can't help feeling paper maps are easier!
Bit late to the party, but there's a great tutorial on how to do this here:
http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/transfer-gpx-file-to-garmin/
hope that helps
alan
This solution doesn't work on my mac because when I connect my edge touring via the USB cable the device goes into charging mode and doesn't not appear of the desktop.I believe Garmin themselves have made it this way to force people to always buy their maps but the procedure that others describe above certainly does work with my Satmap active 10.