On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Craig Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> Most Garmins are limited to 500 points in a saved track. Though this is > usually plenty, unless it is a rather long journey. > The newer ones, including mine, are 2000 I think. > > You could turn off autorouting. ie set it to "off road" instead of > "follow road". Then it will just give you a straight line between the > points in the route. With most Garmins, this works with up to 250 points > in a route - its just "follow road" routing which is limited to 50 points. > Yeah, but then it's just like using a track...only more limited. :) > > Though I usually use "follow road" routing for (road) cycling, I find 50 > points is plenty for most journeys. You just need enough to make sure > the Garmin calculates the route you want, ie one waypoint after each > junction would work. > I tend to make very complicated routes. For example, I did a 75km ride on Friday night which had something like 100 route points. If you want to see some of the madness: http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=blrsdvznawmtgohx > This page has some more details of the pros and cons of tracks vs routes > etc (specifically for cycling, but useful for other things): > http://www.aukadia.net/gps/lwg_5.htm > Some interesting points in there. Steve
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