[SOLVED] Edge 1040: Request to send waypoints with courses from Garmin Connect

Gus_Palas said:

On your Garmin Edge is it on the map or just in the list?

Both

With the (selected) symbol and the corresponding text that matches the waypoint. Both are announced with a beep and then displayed during the journey.

For better visibility of the waypoints on the map, you could experiment with the text size

Edit: Screen deleted; alternatively the menu items

Activitätsprofil -> Navigation -> Karte -> Farstellung -> Erweitert -> Textgröße -> Kartenpunkte

Hi, that's how I had the configuration and it didn't work. I tried changing the icons to large and it didn't work. In medium ones you can't see anything on the map. It's strange, but now with the size of the icons I could see the points on the map. Thank you very much!!!

My experience:

If I made the route and its waypoints (course points) with some different applications to Garmin Connect and then import it to Garmin Connect as a GPX file, everything seems to import correctly, the line and the points. Then, when I send the route with its course points to the EDGE 1040 (via bluetooth sync), only the course line is transferred but not the course points. It seems that the course points must be edited and saved from the Garmin Connect app. 

Try opening your course with its course points in Garmin Connect app, edit just a single course point (simply edit and save), and then send the course to 1040; check if you then can see just that course point but not the others.

Hi dasorsan In principle, I can confirm this because I just tried it out. But the waypoints in the list all have a distance of 0 m. I don't know whether these are then buzzed and displayed during route navigation. If you look at the map, you can at least see the waypoints at the point where they were set.

Which GPX format do you use when importing for Garmin Connect ?  

dasorsan said:

If I made the route and its waypoints (course points) with some different applications to Garmin Connect and then import it to Garmin Connect as a GPX file, everything seems to import correctly,

 Anything I create in say RWGPS and  import into Garmin Connect (web)  via an import or a connection to the other site will have all its course points striped out? How do you do this, noting that GPX format files do not support "course points", as I said above some GPX formats allow "waypoints" but hese get converted to "Locations" on the 1040

I don't understand you very well and I don't know what locations are in 1040, I only know course points. The thing is that if I make a route in a route planer different from GC and I create a course (line) and some POIs (points) and export all together as GPX file, when you import that GPX to GC, only the points so so close or over the line are imported (as course points), the others (away from the line) disappear. Then, when syncing, at least with Bluetooth, the 1040 only picks up the line, not the course points. But If you just edit and save the course points in GC (even with no changes), everything works fine.

Do you mean this?

These are not "waypoints". They are "course points".

"Course points" can only be loaded using FIT or TCX files.

GPX files can't have "course points" (they can have waypoints).

The waypoints in GPX files don't get loaded as "course points".

Are you sure?

I have a GPX file with a line and two points, one of then visually above the line and the other one further away. When I import the GPX into Garmin Connect, the point above the line is converted to course point but the other point is not imported.