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Course Points Exceeded Forerunner 645 Music

Hi all,

I wanted to run a trail using gpx on my Garmin Forerunner 645 Music.

When loading the gpx in my watch it said max coursepoint 50 exceeded, last 67pt not shown. Similar happened with a smaller 20km trail, points exceeded.

Does this mean I will not get directions left, right etcetera?

It is still showing me the map.

Is there any other way to get all the course points or is it the watch that is limited to 50pt?

To be honest I think it is pretty disappointing if this watch will not allow gpx to be fully working. I bought this watch also because of the gpx running option but a limit of 50 is really low.

Thanks for any feedback

Dennis

0 forandy over 4 years ago

I would suspect you tried to use a GPX file with route as an ordered list of waypoints. If I remember right, number of waypoints are limited. Yes. Simly import a GPX which includes a track, than it will work. I'ld like to suggest usage of Garmin Connect to upload courses to FR645M, than it works :)

0 Humanoid over 4 years ago in reply to forandy

Yes, i used Garmin Connect to upload the course to my FR645M. Like I mentioned, it does show the track and it will follow my path. However I do not receive the notifications for directions, it only does the first 50 points.

Such a shame for this watch to not have more points..

I would have assumed 200points to be quite normal for a longer trail.

Thanks for the reply.

Hope there will be an update with more points added..

Best regards,

Dennis

0 forandy over 4 years ago in reply to Humanoid

Did you upload a track or 200 waypoints?

0 Humanoid over 4 years ago in reply to forandy

I uploaded a track created by another person.

For example:

drive.google.com/.../view

0 forandy over 4 years ago in reply to Humanoid

Here you are, that's the reason. It's a list of trackpoints, this is limited to 50. You need to upload a track. Than it's working.

0 Humanoid over 4 years ago in reply to forandy

Thanks, will try to make it a track.

Much appreciated!

0 PAULOJFONSECA over 4 years ago in reply to forandy

Hi forandy, are you able to give a bit more of details on how to transform a list of trackpoints to a track?

0 forandy over 4 years ago in reply to PAULOJFONSECA

Best import to Garmin Connect and sync to device.

Open Garmin Connect -> All Activities -> Import GPX and than in Settings -> Send to device (or save as course)

or:

Open Garmin Connect -> Training -> Courses -> Import

or:

use tools to convert like alltrail.com:
https://www.alltrails.com/de/converter

or......

Best is allway usage of Garmin Connect ... directly store to device folders you have to take care about many things ... let Garmin do that :)