And that is a reason why routes can be nested, so you can use the sections as 
routes of their own. I would still like to know how else to feed an OSM-route 
to a garmin or app if not by converting it to gpx so it can reroute along the 
points in the track to produce exactly the original route.

Mvg Peter Elderson

> Op 20 aug. 2019 om 08:13 heeft Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
> The longest local route to me that I have worked on is over 5,000 km long. I 
> am certain that would not fit on my GPS as a route using this method.
> 
> To reduce the gpx file it would be better to use the nodes where the route 
> changes from one way to another or where the way ends/starts. This would 
> leave the GPS to figure out that the internal map has a way between those 
> points and can use it That should be less way points. But even then on my 
> 5,000 km route it would be far too big for my old GPS as one route. That is 
> ok .. I'd separate it into bits. 
> 
> 
>> On 20/08/19 15:59, Peter Elderson wrote:
>> That is what I do, and what an growing number of hiking people do: turn a 
>> route into a gpx, load the gpx into an app or device, which then routes 
>> along the gpx using all the nodes as waypoints. It works, and it recreates 
>> the exact route if the map is exctly the same as the original. And if the 
>> gpx is linear and without ordering problems. 
>> And its crazy. Because the route is there to begin with, ready in OSM. 
>> 
>> I still don't know how else to feed a pre-existing route to a garmin. If it 
>> doesn't take the route from the map, and it doesn't take a gpx, how does the 
>> device know where to go?
>> 
>> Vr gr Peter Elderson
>> 
>> 
>> Op di 20 aug. 2019 om 05:49 schreef Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>:
>>> On 18/08/19 00:07, Peter Elderson wrote:
>>> > In this case, I do NOT want to go from A to B. I want to do the hike, 
>>> > that is the route, exactly as it is specified OSM. Those ways, in the 
>>> > exact order. I want my smartphone or garmin to guide me exactly along 
>>> > those ways, which were carefully picked when the route was entered 
>>> > into OSM.
>>> >
>>> > If that can't be done directly, I want to get an export that I can 
>>> > feed to my device or app, so it can recreate the route exactly, 
>>> > without adding, weighing, guessing or rerouting anything.
>>> >
>>> > When I'm planning a hike, I want the software to start with the exact 
>>> > OSM route, not a rerouted version.
>>> 
>>> It may be possible...
>>> Each node alone the OSM route would be a waypoint for your Garmin device 
>>> as a route. There will be lots of waypoints!
>>> You would need a OSM map on the Garmin device.
>>> 
>>> That may work... I am not certain if voice prompts would work, but the 
>>> gpx file will be large, there may be too many waypoints for you device 
>>> to handle.
>>> The device will still be routing .. but between the nodes of the way 
>>> there will be no difference between the OSM map and the route.
>>> 
>>> Because of the large number of waypoints I'd think most people will not 
>>> do this. If you chose to do it Peter, good luck.
>>> 
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