I've tried several of the mickey mouse methods for creating a course in GC to download to my Fenix 3 for use while exploring new routes.
The course creator is only usefull when adding a track while sticking to roads, going offroad and it is useless.
Next would be to search for a track in other media such as strava, endomondo and many other softwares using gps.
I've got software to convert to any possible formats, both tcx historical, tcx course, etc, but Garmin Connect does not support the importing of these files as they should. Garin is one of the biggest GPS brands now, and they can support the simple task of importing a route/track for use during exercise? What the h...
Then to top it off, i tried to create a course out of one of my MTB races, this is 2:45hrs long, 70km, while at the activity in GC i select "create course from activity", this opens the course creator, but it is without the actual course, only totals such as time, length and speed is added. I tested it with a short running session today and that imports so it leaves me to think size is an issue, but again, what the he..
I would accept this as issues with small garage developed software, but not with the sole user interface for all Garmin watches.
Does anyone have a clue when we can expect this functionality to improve in GC?
If anyone has a good workaround I would appreciate some tricks, so far the 14km run I'm trying to import leaves an error message in manual activity upload.
BR Thomas F