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openstreetmap background on the course creation page

Garmin could you please provide options for the openstreetmap background on the course creator. The one you provide is very old and pretty useless as it has no useful information. You can leave it or just ditch it nobody will care. There are several quality openstreetmap renderers available. I recommend you offer the three most popular, the openstreetmap.org, opencyclemap.org and my preferred one because it is more detailed, cyclosm.org. The three of them are far superior to what you currently offer. Since this is just a background, this a very simple change to your website that any qualified developper can do in a matter of minutes by adding that choice to the layer menu. Thank you.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

I support that idea.

When I create courses for road cycling, the Open Street Map layer in Garmin Connect is not very useful, because in that layer, I cannot recognize if small roads are paved or not. However in the default layer from openstreetmap.org, this is clearly distinguishable.

When creating a course in Garmin Connect, I always open additional tabs with openstreetmap.org and opencyclemap.org and then I switch between these tabs for comparing the road types. This is very very unhandy. If these layers would be integrated into the Garmin Connect editor, then this would significantly improve user experience.

0 3966097 over 4 years ago

Yeh what Garmin currently provide is pretty useless especially with more far out places. This is made even more annoying by the fact that if I cannot search for Lat/Lon while in Open Street Maps. Only Google Maps, which takes me to a slightly different spot. The OpenStreetMaps and Lat/Lon functionality in Garmin Connect course creator is really disappointing as my Fenix is marketed at an adventure tool.

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to 3966097

If you find the Course creation insuffiient, yiou can design your courses with a tool from a specialist, offering more features. One that is widely used by Garmin users, is at plotaroute.com, since it can export the courses in the Garmin-native FIT file format.