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Import Data - fails every time

I'm attempting to import a route but it fails every time. The error message is not helpful at all, it just says "An error occurred with your upload. Please try again."
If Garmin Connect cannot parse the GPX for some reason it ought to say.
The route is a simple direct route and I've made a copy having cut out the middle route points (yes I understand XML) and pasted it below. This also fails to import.
Both routes import into BaseCamp with no problems.
Can anyone advise ?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gpx version="1.1"
xmlns="www.topografix.com/.../1"
xmlns:xsi="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="www.topografix.com/.../1
www.topografix.com/.../gpx.xsd">
<rte>
<name>20180405</name>
<rtept lat="53.54044" lon="-2.63724">
</rtept>

<rtept lat="53.54016" lon="-2.63686">
</rtept>
</rte>
</gpx>

0 TrippyZ over 7 years ago

Export a course from GC and examine the differences.

0 KevinK over 7 years ago

Hi TrippyZ
Thanks for your reply.
I already know that exporting a course from Garmin Connect is in the form of <trk> <trkseg> <trkpt>. Seems odd as its a course (route) not a track.
So are you saying that Garmin Connect cannot process a standard GPX Route ?
If so there should be a sensible error message - the current error message is totally unhelpful, I took it to mean the upload had gone wrong but after several repetitions I wondered.
'Normally' in GPS parlance a track is a record of a journey and a route is a plan for a journey.
A course ? a new Garmin concept I suppose, oriented around training etc. But then exported as a track ?!?!
I am trying to help friends struggling with their Garmin devices, creating and installing routes etc.
At the moment I'm beginning to think that using Garmin Connect is not a good idea and BaseCamp is a better idea and they could use some other online application to share their routes and tracks.
Please elaborate on just how particular Garmin Connect is - as I said there is no problem with Routes in Garmin BaseCamp or my GMPSMAP 62S. The concept of a 'course' isn't present in either of those but Tracks and Routes are widely understood.