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Former Member over 5 years ago

Hi whilst my Fenix 5s plus used to calculate round trip courses, since I downloaded the Topo active Europe map I get a message saying "maps do not have routable roads in the area". This happens even if I disable the new Topo active map and rely on the old pre-installed map even though it worked before. Any ideas?

0 RadAd over 5 years ago

What kind of paths are you trying to route on? In my experience with TopoActive 2017 NA, the Garmin maps are inferior to the free OSMs (http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/) in both the city and in the backcountry, so I've disabled them entirely. For city routing I use the Generic Routable maps, and for hiking and cycling I use the Routable Bicycle maps. The TopActive maps are ok for cycling in the city but they lack useful POI data and don't work for automobile routing. As for the Routable Bicycle maps, I've found them to be superior to TopoActive both for cycling and hiking as they seem to have far more useful trail and point of interest data such as backcountry campsites.

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago

Where were you when you were calculating round trip courses before? Which map?

If you are certain you were using the same map before then perhaps reload them from Garmin Express.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Thanks I've tried several places where I live and the same message comes up even though it worked in those places with the pre-installed base map before I loaded the Topo active ones. If I reload them presumably they won't be loaded twice and take twice the space? On a related issue do you know how I can tell how much memory on my garmin I'm using up with the maps?

0 Casi3D over 5 years ago

I used the tutorial from https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/08/how-to-installing-free-maps-on-your-garmin-fenix-5-plus-forerunner-945-or-marq-series-watch.html

It stated that you have to use routable maps, maybe you have to get a different map version?

0 RunR over 5 years ago

Roundtrip routing and navigation works fine on my F5+ with the TopoActiveEurope 2019.10 (running, cycling). For me the roundtrip routing uses too much road (running) and the navigation does not always use the fastest or shortest course, so I prefer to draw tracks myself and upload them to the watch. I did not see a difference to the OSM OpenTopoMap (popularity routing switched off, because this delivered strange routes along main roads). It is known that the TopoActiveMas are not suitable for car routing (but for roadbike).

I hope this information is helpful.