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Saved locations management?

Please Garmin - add the ability on Garmin Connect to manage saved waypoints and sync these with the watch. I want to add British National Grid (OS) references as Saved Locations. It's slow and painful having to create and manage these entirely on the watch (Forerunner 935).

You can create courses on GC but why can't you create waypoints??

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0 SUSSAMB over 6 years ago

Try BaseCamp .... It should work with your device and do what you want.

0 randybb over 4 years ago in reply to SUSSAMB

In the world of cloud-based services and connected devices it is really stupid if you have to connect a device via a cable to a computer to edit saved locations...

0 4184929 over 4 years ago in reply to randybb

I agree. This is one feature I just expected as a given. I occasionally mark locations as reference for later and being able to show them on a map later on my computer or phone would be sensible. In it's current state it makes sense to track a location as a very short activity, but really the locations should just sync like most other things.

If a saved location is represented as a waypoint, maybe there is scope in the API for a developer?

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/PersistedContent/Waypoint.html

+1 trux over 4 years ago in reply to randybb

randybb said:
In the world of cloud-based services and connected devices it is really stupid if you have to connect a device via a cable to a computer to edit saved locations...

Use the Garmin Explore App, no cable needed

0 1921516 over 1 year ago

It's taken me an hour of research to figure out how to extract waypoints from my Vivoactive. Why does Garmin make this so hard??? There are soooo many apps required with Garmin. Intuitively I went to Connect and looked at my calendar for the day. Nope no luck. Why wouldn't you just show the navigation points there and allow me to download from here? Why do I need to install basecamp and have to figure out yet another app. Garmin need to take more of a user-centric view instead of a data-centric view.

0 Norbert over 1 year ago in reply to 1921516

absolutely. Explore is horrendous, I've uninstalled it I hope they'll move the saved locations functionality to Connect AND allow us to import waypoints into Connect.