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Garmin Courses

Nick
over 5 years ago

Hi again, would I be correct  in saying, the Courses menu in garmin connect, doesn't let you actually add a course if I have a waypoint list? Instead it's a visual pin dropper on a map only? 

Is there any ergonomic way to input a course from a list in connect I can use later in an  iterator??? I can't find it if there is?

Dropping a pin is quite useless for water activity hence none of the waypoint are Google map visible landmarks? 

  • over 5 years ago in reply to Nick

    You have 15 chars to play with.

    The way to get nontrivial amounts of data into your app is to have your app make a call to a website.

    No one will want to create waypoints in the app and even less so through settings. 

  • over 5 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    I agree if it is time consuming, if not I would rather the ability to do it on the watch, 15 Char ain't going to cut it, so I think I will figure out the on watch scenario... most races use the same 10 - 15 waypoints in different orders to create courses. They are normally published once a year, so it's really not that big a deal to sit down one and get the data in there, as long as you can get it in there.

  • over 5 years ago in reply to Nick

    I have the same issue if I'm getting you right. I have the 3-rd party app that can export a GPX file. That file could be uploaded on the device via the Connect IQ mobile app but my watch app can only list it. It seems there is no API to parse GPX file on the device and get access to the way-points in it.

    The only solution that I find is to create my own web API server, upload GPX file there, parse it and provide web API for my watch application to download waypoints via makewebRequest()  

  • over 5 years ago in reply to IB614

    Some devices use FIT files.

    Some devices use GPX.

    That might only be for courses/tracks.

    To get locations into the device, you have to use the method you arrived at using.