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GPS & Digital Data Discussion / Re: Adventure Cycling .GPX file to a route with Garmin Basecamp?

« on: May 31, 2019, 09:49:51 pm »

Back in 2006 I was using a GPSMap 60c (with whatever software Garmin had at the time), and due to memory limits I could only plot out two or three days' worth of routes at a time, using the paper map to plot them out manually on the laptop and then transferring them over. I've got a GPSMap 64s now, and I was hoping to avoid that sort of painstaking daily routine this time.

I think I've got more of a handle on it today, but I'm still baffled by this kind of routing decision:



The generated route is in magenta, the ACA track (Pacific Coast, South) is in green. From what I can tell, the route veers off the track (CA 135), loops around through a couple of small towns, then goes halfway up Harris Grade Road before turning around and heading back down it.    Similarly, there's another section where the route favors an assortment of cycleways over the track's more preferable surface streets.

Ideally, I want the route to just stick to the roads specified in the track, but I can't seem to get the right combination of routing preferences. Is that just how it is? 80% automatic, and then tweak the route by hand to correct for odd routing decisions?

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GPS & Digital Data Discussion / Re: Adventure Cycling .GPX file to a route with Garmin Basecamp?

« on: May 31, 2019, 10:41:09 am »

"Anyway, without trying to sound rude, you probably are missing something because others have not had an issue."

Not at all!

I'd been fussing with it all afternoon and was pretty irritated (always the best time to post! ) I'll poke at it some more today.

Thanks for the reply.

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GPS & Digital Data Discussion / Adventure Cycling .GPX file to a route with Garmin Basecamp?

« on: May 30, 2019, 11:32:12 pm »

As far as I can tell, the .GPX data sold by Adventure Cycling simply will not convert to a proper route in Garmin Basecamp. It won't stick to roads, it won't alert - nothing. Useless. Unless I'm missing something - which I'm more than happy to learn about - the "No returns" policy on this data seems a bit, well...$6 wasted, and a little predatory. Any advice on this?