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Waypoints for the Garmin Edge series in Garmin Connect.

Former Member over 10 years ago

It'd be nice to have basic waypoint functionality, especially on a $600 GPS device.

Nothing too fancy, just the ability to add basic icons in Garmin Connect for things like stores/restaurants, mountain tops and when you're out on long rides in the mountains, camp grounds so you can fill up the water bottles and for the many folks that do organised rides, brevets, randonnees, rest stops. Have an extra field on the Edge that allows you to show distance to the next waypoint.

Seems ironic that I still have to rely on a piece of white masking tape on the top tube with important locations and distances marked in a Sharpie, pretty defeats the purpose of buying the 810 in the first place.

0 schinder over 10 years ago

Why do you want that to be in Garmin Connect when you can already do it in Garmin BaseCamp?

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

:cool:I do support the request, if you create à parcours for your bike, it would be nice to show things like "mountain passes" or else.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Why do you want that to be in Garmin Connect when you can already do it in Garmin BaseCamp?

Why would I want to have several programs for one device? The aim, I though, was to keep everything simple and easy.

Simple stuff like this has been possible on many GPS units for at least a decade - you know, the ones you could buy for $100 from the local electronics store. It baffles me that rudimentary stuff like this is missing. It also baffles me that the Edge 810 has such a hard time with "distance to next turn" when your course has a loop or a point where the course crosses each other. These too little "very basic" things make this device almost useless for the things I'd like to use if for. Maybe one day I'll be able to not have to follow the map on screen for the first 300km of a 400km ride (before the 'distance to next turn' starts to work) and not have to carry around info of how many miles to the next rest stop or top of mountain is...

0 schinder over 10 years ago

Well, if it were me riding 400 km, I'd always want some backup... Electronic devices can fail.

But I asked about Garmin Connect, because, not only isn't it really made for this the way BaseCamp is, but with Modern, it seems to be more difficult to get things onto a device now that Communicator Plugin isn't being used. I see all sorts of complaints about getting courses and workout plans onto devices now. I don't think waypoints would work any better. BaseCamp is the right tool for this, and it already works, and works with the same maps on your 810. You must have more faith than I do that Garmin's web programmers can both do this right and get it working in a reasonable amount of time.