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Create a course by coordinates is broken

Former Member
Former Member over 4 years ago

I'm trying to create a course in the sea (but the issue happens in earth as well) by using coordinates following the format Decimal degree (WGS84, for example 40.435737, 0.686668) but when I enter this values in the search box in Firefox 82.0.3 and Google Chrome 86.0.4240.193 it doesn't works. Just nothing happens. In Firefox I can observe an error in the Web Console.

I'm firstly validating the coordinates by searching for them in Google Maps which is the Map engine I've set on Courses and they work fine. Example with the sample coordinates goo.gl/.../XpmarHAJyT8MjLMB6

How can I draw my courses using coordinates?

Thanks.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    What do you want to do? The search box is just for centering the map at one point but can't really be used for drawing a course. At sea you must use the Freehand drawing function and you can't see what coordinate you are clicking or the distance from the last point.

    I suggest that you use a different service for creating courses at sea. Garmin Connect is not good for doing that.

    I don't know what type of search strings are supported by the search box. Names of cities, streets, countries etc. works ok, but not very good.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy

    Thanks for reply e7andy.

    I've realized that the search box just center as you say and doesn't works with the sea :/

    Was expecting to create a course for my kayaking sessions by specific coordinates BUT, I've found a way to do it ;)

    Basically creating a dummy course, downloading it as GPX and editing as raw text to finally import it. Archaic as Windows NT era but useful for my use case.

    Garmin connect guys: consider to add points by coordinates or at least the functionality to edit freehand points by editing its coordinates. Consider this to drastically improve the tool which is, already, very useful.

    BTW: Add course points is broken on Linux. Works in Windows. For the current version: 4.37.1.0.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    If you have a list of coordinates that you want to use for creating the Course for your Garmin Device, you can use for example this very easy to use tool: http://www.gcgpx.cz/?lang=en

    If you want something more sophisticated, just use Google Earth, plotaroute.com, or one of the countless number of other similar tools available on the web.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Thanks ,

    have tested gcgpx but the format is quite different to Garmin Connect one so can not be imported by, I think the rest of them would happen the same. Anyway, is quite straightforward for me to use the technic described above.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member
    I think the rest of them would happen the same.

    Plotaroute.com definitely works all right with Garmin, and can even export the courses in the Garmin-native FIT file format that you can place directly on the watch. For terrestrial navigation, it is also of an interest, because unlike many other similar tools, it includes the turn-by-turn navigation instructions into the file.

    I understood that you are happy with the manual GPX editing - just posting it here for the reference for other people with similar issues, finding this thread later.