How do I transfer a GPX file to my Garmin Nuvi?.This export option only includes the cues for printing and none of the navigation for GPS devices or the mobile app. KML: Not used as an export format for navigation on GPS devices, but a useful export for viewing a route or activity in Google Earth.ĬSV: Comma Separated Values, useful for importing into a spreadsheet program. If you have Garmin maps or OSM maps installed on a microSD card in your map-capable GPS unit, your GPS will provide native turn guidance and there is no need for the basic navigation offered by the TCX format. You don’t care about riding a certain speed, and you don’t need the basic turn guidance offered by the TCX.
The eTrex, Oregon, Montana, and GPSmap series do not read TCX.
At this moment, we do not have the capability to export a *route* with these average speeds, however if you export a TCX of an existing activity that you have done, you can race against the speed you went when originally riding on that activity. You are interested in the training capabilities of TCX Course or FIT Course files, meaning, you want to export a route with a set speed, and you want to get alerts when you go above or below that speed.This allows you to get alerts when you approach your custom cues, while still using the fancy navigation capabilities of your GPS unit. Using a TCX Course or FIT Course file will still allow your GPS unit to have the fancy turn guidance you get when you have a quality map installed on the GPS, however you will also get the simple beep/icon style navigation of the TCX. Your GPS unit has fancy maps installed, but you have custom cue entries like water and food stops.That’s fine for most people, since it’s just a reference – most of the time you have an idea of where you are going and just need an auditory beep to make sure you don’t accidentally pass a turn. Often, the beep you get with the very simplistic turn by turn directions of a TCX Course or Fit Course file occurs as you are in the middle of the intersection, meaning it doesn’t happen in advance of the turn.Garmin’s are limited to 10 characters, so we attempt to strip out irrelevant text from the cue, leaving just the street name if possible. An abbreviated 10 character description of the cue will also appear. When you come close to the cuesheet entry, your Edge will beep and an arrow icon will appear on the map.TCX Course and FIT Course files contain the cuesheet generated when mapping a route using our planner.You have a GPS unit that does not have mapping capabilities (Edge 305/500) but want turn warnings, or you have a GPS unit that has mapping capabilities (Edge 705/800) but you did not purchase the microSD card that contains the mapping/routing information which provides the nice GPS style turn guidance.Three reasons you would want a TCX Course or FIT Course file over a GPX: