07-01-2021, 02:38 AM
I have played around extensively to find a good route planning/gps solution. Scenic is great for planning routes. It consistently finds good roads and I've been very happy with it. But I don't like using my iphone as a gps. Plus in the heat of summer it overheats in the sun becoming useless or if it rains it's not waterproof. So I'd prefer to use my Garmin but it's navigation is rudimentary at best. If you set it for curvy roads it will take you into a local neighborhood and make you do a bunch of turns, that's it's idea of curvy.
So I started exporting the gpx file from scenic and loading it in to the garmin but ran into an issue, the garmin would overwrite the turn by turn directions basically turning it into a garmin route which sucks. So I've found a solution that seems to work reasonably well. When you export a gpx file it sends three parts, two Trip files and a Track file. Once it's in the garmin go to Tracks and find that track file, then convert it to a trip. Once it's a trip you can load it up and it will follow the scenic route instead of overwriting it as long as you turn off Route Recalculation in the Navigation menu of the garmin.
It sounds more convoluted than it is and it works reasonably well but it's not perfect. If anyone has found a better work around I'd love to hear about it.
So I started exporting the gpx file from scenic and loading it in to the garmin but ran into an issue, the garmin would overwrite the turn by turn directions basically turning it into a garmin route which sucks. So I've found a solution that seems to work reasonably well. When you export a gpx file it sends three parts, two Trip files and a Track file. Once it's in the garmin go to Tracks and find that track file, then convert it to a trip. Once it's a trip you can load it up and it will follow the scenic route instead of overwriting it as long as you turn off Route Recalculation in the Navigation menu of the garmin.
It sounds more convoluted than it is and it works reasonably well but it's not perfect. If anyone has found a better work around I'd love to hear about it.