WHY is there a 200 point limit on courses and routes??

7193408 1 month ago

Is there some highly technical reason why garmin limits course and routes to 200 points? Is it a memory storage issue?? Seems like a very simple problem to solve. It is extremely frustrating to be able download 100+ mile routes and try to put them on my garmin and it only has like a 10th of the points it needs to be remotely usable. Maybe I am missing something, but could not find an obvious answer to this. Regardless it is terrible user experience, if it is that hard to figure out.

WTF Garmin why is this a thing in 2024?

0 aweatherall 1 month ago

Might be mixing up terminology here. A course can have thousands of track points.

Are you talking about maybe saved locations or course points?

0 PeterK_55 1 month ago in reply to aweatherall

It will be course points. I’ve come across that limit on a 150km bike path course with a lot of turns. Once it is reached, course point pop ups will stop displaying, but the track still displays on the map screen.

0 aweatherall 1 month ago in reply to PeterK_55

I think the limit was increased on the x40 series units. I will check.

I'm assuming that most of the course points you have are for turn instructions?

I don't know if the following would work for you you, but what I do is to enable turn guidance on the Edge and let that handle the the turn instructions and then only use course points for things like feed stations, hazards or some key turn instructions,

0 PeterK_55 1 month ago in reply to aweatherall

Yes, they were mostly turn instructions. The course (created by others with RWGPS) had many turns close together so I suspect turn guidance would have struggled to keep up in many cases.

But yes, the alternative of using the GPX course version together with TG would be an option.

0 L.Rouge 1 month ago in reply to aweatherall

aweatherall said:
I'm assuming that most of the course points you have are for turn instructions?

But both RWGPS and Garmin Turn Guidance suffer from overly verbose and too numerous instructions especially with the majority of roundabouts (with no actual turn) where long winded “take the second exit…” instructions tell you to essentially just continue straight ahead, they both know it is straight ahead as they display that turn type or symbol. For course points I often delete more than half the instructions, anything that does not actually have a turn. I would like to use turn guidance as I have this very smart and expensive 1040 but it spends half its time beeping at me to tell me to continue doing nothing , ie straight ahead. Would be nice if it had a “terse” mode that eliminated unnecessary instructions for non-turns.

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/edge-1040-series/339128/roundabout---navigation---show-wrong-way/1642553#1642553

I should send Garmin a suggestion / feature request)