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List of course points, where to check in GC?

Tisztul_A_Visztula
17 days ago

Either I am too tired and I miss iomething or it is again Garmin that did not implement something trivial?

My quetion is where in GC web   I can check that how many course points does a course contain? When I say course point I follow present Garmin term, but  in fact I am curious about waypoints in my term, and NOT the hundreds or thousands of points which are together create a course.

I read https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=sJR8z5jHmW5HJaAzSZcJb5 and it is clear how to delete a point of a course, how to add a course point (=waypoint), but I found neither a reference, nor a menu item where I can liist the course points (=waypoints).

Is there any other way than exporting it in tcx or fit and check it in another tool? 

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  • 0 16 days ago

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    " FlowState

    It's not really what you asked, but you can see the list of waypoints in the Connect app if you edit a course then click Edit Waypoints. This feature lists the waypoints, tells you how many there are, and allows you to delete or reorder them. I find this feature to be useless because even simply deleting a waypoint seems to completely mess up a course.

    Honestly I prefer the Strava route creator for many reasons, including the fact that it has a useful waypoint list / editor. (It's not free tho)"

    When I relpied to your post,  funnily both yours and mine have disappeared.

    I just wanted to share with you some details. I am a Mapsource  (MS) lover and it seems that although exporting a course as a .gpx from GC erases all the course points / waypoints  (CP/WP) importing a .gpx created by MS to GC keeps all the  CP/WP.

    1)  The first problem is that GC cannot show their real names in GC IOS app, but use their  descriptive locations (city or street name ) as waypoints name.

    2)The other problem is that having sent it to eg. Edge 530 is also messy, because 530 does show them in course point list, and even with their proeper name, but the distance assigned to them are always zero.

    3) Another "sadness fact" is that all the CP/WP I create in GC web  not as generic CP/WP, but eg. as an aid station are not shown iEdit Waypoints in GC IOS app.

    So you must be right and one should refrain from using an y Garmin tool to create a course with CP/WP. Plain vanilla courses can be handled by GC , either they are oriinally from MS or by GC web/app itself.

  • 0 16 days ago

    EDIT: 

    2025-04-18: updated script - https://pastebin.com/raw/4Rj06qfp

    --

    You're right, Garmin has no way to list course points (either in the Connect website or the app.)

    I cooked up a quick script that can do this, but idk how useful it'll be for you. At least you'll be able to see the number of course points with the click of a button.

    Installation [this is easiest on a computer but also works on mobile]

    1) Open your favourite browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox or Safari)

    2) Open the script:

    https://pastebin.com/raw/4Rj06qfp

    3) Select all the text (CTRL-A on Windows / CMD-A on Mac). Copy the text to the clipboard (CTRL-C / CMD-C)

    4) Open https://caiorss.github.io/bookmarklet-maker/

    5) Click on the Code text box and delete the existing contents. Press CTRL-V / CMD-V to paste the script into the Code text box

    6) Set the Title to "GC course points" (or whatever you want).

    7) Click the Generate Bookmarklet button. This will create a blue bookmarklet button entitled "GC course points", just below the button you clicked

    8a) If you are on a computer:

    Show the bookmark bar on your browser (CTRL-SHIFT-B / CMD-SHIFT-B). Drag the blue bookmarklet  button on to the bookmark bar

    8b) If you are on mobile:

    Select all the text in the Output box and tap Copy. Bookmark any site at all. Edit the bookmark, and paste the copied text into the URL field

    Usage

    - Log into the Connect website and open a course

    - Click the "GC course points" bookmark

  • 0 16 days ago in reply to Tisztul_A_Visztula

    Sorry, I deleted my original answer because it was completely wrong.

    The Connect app lets you edit a list of "waypoints" (whatever those are in Garmin terminology), *not* course points. (Both the app and website use "course points" to mean the same thing: custom points of interest.)

    The only part of my original answer that was correct is that actually trying to edit "waypoints" in the app will probably mess up your course completely.

    Oh and that the strava route creator is much better. (It does mix in custom waypoints with regular waypoints, so I guess it doesn't do everything you want either.)

  • 0 16 days ago in reply to FlowState

    Wow, it was really an all-inclusive service from you. Thanks a lot, really.

    I am pretty sure you already helped another user with another GC-related script, see "This will create a blue bookmarklet entitled "Export Connect HR"" :-)

  • 0 12 days ago in reply to FlowState
    FlowState said:
    Oh and that the strava route creator is much better. (It does mix in custom waypoints with regular waypoints, so I guess it doesn't do everything you want either.)

    Today I tested Alltrails. I exported a "map" (=track) as

    1) gpx track

    2) gpx route

    3) tcx course

    4) crs course

    All of 4 are Garmin format, but it seems that neither Mapsource, nor GC support the last one. It seems to be some old Garmin Training Center format.

    I imported the gpx track, the course point were there, but with zero distance as I had expected.

    The very same was the result with gpx route.

    I had had a big hope with tcx course, but funnily GC totally erased the course points, so your scipt did not show anything (Am I right that if it seems to be not run, it simply means that there are zero course point?) 

  • 0 12 days ago in reply to Tisztul_A_Visztula
    Tisztul_A_Visztula said:
    I had had a big hope with tcx course, but funnily GC totally erased the course points, so your scipt did not show anything (Am I right that if it seems to be not run, it simply means that there are zero course point?) 

    Yeah and it also means there's a bug in the script haha.

    I've edited the comment above with a link to an updated version of the script that handles certain errors more gracefully.