I got my F5x this past week and I've been learning the differences. Over the years I've had eTrex, Oregon, Fenix 3, and Epix that I've used for backpacking. I was hoping that on the F5x you could create a route that had certain waypoints for say water sources, intersections, etc and the Next Wpt and Dist to Next fields would display appropriately. I can of course build a route with just a few waypoints with direct line routing and that does show the Next Wpt name and Dist to Next and Dest Name and Dist Remaining correctly. But for what I'm referring to it would have many many route points closely shaped to the trail and waypoints mixed in along the way. This feature works on the handhelds doesn't it? I created a typical route in Basecamp and then inserted particular waypoints within the route points. The waypoints even show being associated with the route in the references. I exported the route to a GPX locally first just to view it and made sure it had route points vs the waypoints and it looked correct. I sent this to the device using Basecamp and when i view the route on the map it looks correct with the special waypoints along the way. Whenever I use the Navigate app and Do Course it doesn't seem to recognize the special waypoints. The Next Wpt and Destination Name just show blank and the Dist to Next and Dist Remaining both always show the total Dist Remaining. It just doesn't seem to have the waypoints associated to the route. Has anyone gotten this to work? I've been able to figure out other nuances and gotten things like true turn by turn to work.
After reading the other forum thread about turn by turn it may have been because I have installed 24k topo for my local area and those are routable.
I had a waypoint for home so walking out of work the other day I chose the Navigate app and then picked my home waypoint. It was done on the fly rather than building something in GC or Basecamp. I had activity set to automobile and courses set to follow course in the navigation settings. It gave warning and countdown at each turn along with a splash page with information about the turn. I had tried something similar the day after getting the watch and I unknowingly had the activity set to pedestrian and I don't believe I had the 24k maps on it yet and it did navigate me along the road while driving and did give beeps at the turn along with showing arrows on the map but it certainly wasn't as full featured as my second attempt. Unfortunately I don't know if the activity setting or the 24k maps made the difference.
I just played around in Basecamp with creating routes with 24k topo, the included 100k topo, and the included cycle maps choosing Driving as the activity. Creating a route with the 100k topo selected as the map just does some sort of combination of straight lines and the highways that seem to be the same as what is on the global map. It is very rudimentary. The 24k and cycling route on the road as you'd expect.
I'll try to play around with more routing on the device itself tomorrow toggling the different maps.
I had a waypoint for home so walking out of work the other day I chose the Navigate app and then picked my home waypoint. It was done on the fly rather than building something in GC or Basecamp. I had activity set to automobile and courses set to follow course in the navigation settings. It gave warning and countdown at each turn along with a splash page with information about the turn. I had tried something similar the day after getting the watch and I unknowingly had the activity set to pedestrian and I don't believe I had the 24k maps on it yet and it did navigate me along the road while driving and did give beeps at the turn along with showing arrows on the map but it certainly wasn't as full featured as my second attempt. Unfortunately I don't know if the activity setting or the 24k maps made the difference.
That's really helpful. That's the behavior I'd love to be able to get while navigating a course while running. It's great to know that it's within the technical ability of the 5X to display that information in that way! If you find out more while playing around, I hope you'll share.
