transferring routes to Zumo

Former Member over 10 years ago

I am planning a 15 day motorcycle holiday through France and this will be my first outing with my new Zumo 340. My question is how to transfer my daily routes to the Zumo.

What I do intend to do is create a route and save it as a file on my Mac, stick it all into one folder and then connect the Zumo to the Mac and transfer etc. etc. Any idea whether the Zumo will have enough capacity to take in the files? Assume it will save it to its hard drive rather than me putting it on a memory card and insert the memory card?

thanks

Martin

0 SUSSAMB over 10 years ago

Read this FAQ

https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId=%7B65814150-50b3-11dc-4ec8-000000000000%7D

There should be no need for a card, routes take up very little room.

Note there's no need to save it on your mac, Basecamp can send the routes directly to your zumo. If you do it manually ensure the .gpx files are placed in the GPX folder on your zumo.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

interestingly enough - there are some routes (trips?) on the Zumo but there is nothing in the .gpx folder when connected to my mac ...?

0 SUSSAMB over 10 years ago

Yes, routes/trips created on the zumo are stored differently .... and not in the GPX folder. Routes/trips transferred to the zumo, either manually or via Basecamp, are .gpx files and need to be placed in the GPX folder.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

I don't understand that. If I have routes/tracks on my Garmin, where do they show up when I connect the Garmin to my Mac (or rather in the file folder system when connected)? Or, putting in differently, if I want to remove them, how do I do that?

thanks

Martin

0 JaVaWa over 10 years ago

You have to remove them using the menus on the zumo; can't do that with BaseCamp.