Creating an off-road route for Garmin 800?

ben@31
ben@31 Posts: 2,327
edited January 2015 in MTB beginners
Hi,

Is there any way to plan a create a course along bridleways and off-road trails then save it onto my Garmin 800, then have the 800 give me directions?

I plan road courses using Garmin Connect (when it works) or Strava. But I'm looking at getting the talkie toaster OSM's on a SD card and maybe download a few OS tiles on my iPhone as I only have the Garmin NT map for my road bike. I find the maps on my iPhone more useful than Garmin's !

From what I remember there was an option to buy the Garmin 800 with Garmin's official OS maps, so surely they must be a way of creating a course along a bridleway if its on their own map ?

Thanks.
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  • freezing77
    freezing77 Posts: 731
    http://ridewithgps.com

    Lets you use OSM to plan a route which will follow bridleways and paths, this can then be downloaded to your garmin and will give directions.
  • miceden
    miceden Posts: 225
    Similar but simpler and no need to signup - www.bikehike.co.uk
  • freezing77
    freezing77 Posts: 731
    miceden wrote:
    Similar but simpler and no need to signup - http://www.bikehike.co.uk

    Does not work, the routing does not follow tracks or bridleways, tried it in Richmond park and also the Tennyson trail on the Isle of Wight.
  • miceden
    miceden Posts: 225
    Strange as it works ok on mine (800 trail bundle garmin)
  • freezing77
    freezing77 Posts: 731
    miceden wrote:
    Strange as it works ok on mine (800 trail bundle garmin)

    It is the website that does not work, I am sure your garmin works.

    Routes created on the website do not follow bridleways but snap to the closest road. If you turn off do not follow roads you end up with a lot of connected straight lines but not a route that actaully follows the path/bridleway.
    Here is an example from ridewithgps with the route following the bridleway
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    Trying to do the same on bikehike results in this.
    16129588126_5999098830_b.jpg
  • plasma_man
    plasma_man Posts: 129
    Try http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com

    I use it for most rides, auto or manual planning that is switchable during the route build, you can set it to follow various types of paths and it is switchable during the route building process. I tried the example above it it works perfectly, following that bridle way.
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