Exclusive fenix 5X feature now in garmin iOS app for all of us - YAY

One of the exclusive features in fenix 5X - to generate a course on a map is now in the garmin IOS app, which we posted and feature requested back in the beginning of the year in this forum. Thank you garmin for listening in!!!

https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/garmin-connect-mobile/id583446403?mt=8
Check the changelog and try go to course and you can create a new one, pick a distance and then touch on the map where you want the starting point.

Of course, on the 5X you still get the map but on 5/5s/3hr/3 you get turn by turn directions on the wrist which is still pretty nifty.

I will try to use this feature to get new routes at home and when i visit new cities.

0 JensenB9 over 7 years ago

Have you guys seen the new course creation functionality on the web? It's much cleaner and has an import function! That and you can actually add course points. Amazing.

0 Crispin_Ellisdon over 7 years ago

Yes, much better than old! Still not well suited to mobile devices sadly (iPad in my case). This was what I was hoping would be included in the GCM course creator, rather than the limited round trip creator that was released. At least it's progress in the right direction....

0 BeneGi over 7 years ago

Sigh! I too was hoping that the GCM had finally got the functionality to take over from the GC website based course creator, but alas not. Nothing has come close to the utility of the old Garmin Basecamp Mobile app that worked with the Fenix 1 and 2; you simply created your GPX course in a 3rd party smartphone app with offline topo mapping (like Viewranger) and then got the Garmin Basecamp Mobile app to send the resulting GPX route to the watch via BLE and all this could be done if you were in the middle of nowhere with no cellphone reception or wifi to connect to the internet. I've made countless submissions to the Garmin ideas portal to get back to this type of app system that just worked, but this is one area that tech companies insist going backwards with 'newer' features that require constant internet connectivity and assume we're too dumb to plan a simple route for ourselves. [rant over and I feel a little better again ;)]

I really hate the guy who decided to kill that bummer feature. Also creating a route on a mapping device and sending it via bluetooth is not possible.
By the way, the german changelog only tells the usual Blabla about getting better with monthly updates.

0 NeilJonesOnline over 7 years ago

Yes, much better than old! Still not well suited to mobile devices sadly (iPad in my case). This was what I was hoping would be included in the GCM course creator, rather than the limited round trip creator that was released. At least it's progress in the right direction....

Except that Garmin seems to have decided that the 400-odd courses I'd created and given arbitary, but still private, names to, and that all begin and end at my front door, can all be made public. :mad:

0 srshaw over 7 years ago

Have you guys seen the new course creation functionality on the web? It's much cleaner and has an import function! That and you can actually add course points. Amazing.

To be able to import courses is the feature I've wanted for ages. Hope if works. It's been a total pain getting externally created courses onto my Fenix 3.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

I have been testing this over the last couple of days now and it works really well. I like the fact its easier to look at the route on the map and then send it to the device. One thing I would love to see is the ability to edit a route or create one from scratch, but this is a good start

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

For clarity, the Android app got this too...
Title only mentions iOS...

0 Crispin_Ellisdon over 7 years ago

Except that Garmin seems to have decided that the 400-odd courses I'd created and given arbitary, but still private, names to, and that all begin and end at my front door, can all be made public. :mad:

I've less than a hundred courses in GC and mine have remained correctly assigned public/private as before. I guess some sort of glitch with the number of courses you have or that the Garmin servers just took a disliking to you ;)

0 Crispin_Ellisdon over 7 years ago

The bit that I have tested that is a step in the right direction, is I can now create a GPX route offline with the ViewRanger app and OS GB mapping, then once I've got an internet connection I can import that gpx file in to the Garmin Connect website and then give it a pace, a new name and add some course points before sending it to the watch. So this is definitely better and gets away from the frustration of using the GC course creator map, as I can just use a specifically for purpose 3rd party app to do that. If they could get that import function inside GCM and then make it all work offline, then I'd be happy that we have a true outdoors capability.

0 JensenB9 over 7 years ago

I don't see the heat map anymore when creating a run course on the web. It looks like you get it for cycling but not running.