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Is it me or is Garmin's software a mess right now?

I have a 5x Plus, and I bought it for trail/ultra running.

So I'd like to be able to plot a track, mark points on it for food/water stops or checkpoints etc.

So (at least as far as the Web side is involved)

Explore:

Not very good at plotting tracks, but will create waypoints. Import a route created elsewhere - no elevation profile. Syncing to watch is a bit painful

Connect:

Better at plotting tracks, but no waypoint/checkpoint support. Sync's very easy

So right now I have to create a track in Connect, import it into to Explore, add the waypoints I need, delete the track and just sync the waypoints to my watch, and then use Connect to export the route/track to my watch,

Is it me, or is this a little absurd - or is there a better way?

Been using Basecamp but thats got even worse plotting capability than the other 2.

EDIT: I meant track not route. My fault for being semantically unclear!

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twolpert over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala +1

Just discovered that I can add one each time I extend the course. I suppose that makes sense if you plot the course and the course points at the same time. But it's not really the way I expected it to…

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0 twolpert over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala

Just tried FF on Windows. Same result I got with Edge on Windows (don't ask). The first point works fine. But I can never place a second point...

0 AJRykala over 5 years ago in reply to twolpert

Apparenlty you can set a datafield as next waypoint ... may have to test it on a run as I can't seem to add one at the start. I can click about 90m from the start along the blue line to add a point (have to name it first though)

0 twolpert over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala

Have you managed to add more than one point to the same course? That's the part I can't seem to make work.

0 AJRykala over 5 years ago in reply to twolpert

Yes. But I name and select the point type first, then click on the blue line

0 twolpert over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala

No matter what I do, it's one and done. Will have to bang on it some more when I have more time. Let me know how they work on the watch.

0 AJRykala over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala

This is going to be a long one, isn't it? lol

0 AJRykala over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala

Annoying .. I got TBT working once but no more. I may need to just create on plotaroute and manually copy the FIT over to test

0 twolpert over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala

Just discovered that I can add one each time I extend the course. I suppose that makes sense if you plot the course and the course points at the same time. But it's not really the way I expected it to work.

0 AJRykala over 5 years ago in reply to AJRykala

Plotaroute and manually copying the FIT seems to work - will need to be tested but getting TBT at least

0 craigsam over 4 years ago in reply to AJRykala

Hi AJRykala,

I use Garmin Connect for this as the explore app and web portal are of no use in my area due to poor maps and the functionality of the tools. I can add multiple course points to a course as seen here in this screen shot from one of my courses.

How are you going with figuring it out ? have you got it to work ?

Regards, Craig.