Alternative route planner suggestions

I use bikehike now. Used to use mmr, but if memory serves you can longer save in Garmin tcx format.
May not be an issue for you of course.

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RidewithGPS

essex-commuter wrote:

Daniel B wrote:

Does anyone use gpsies to create routes?

Due to my edge 500 not handling breadcrumb trails very well, I have been creating it in bikehike, then 'converting' it through gpsies, but I wonder if I should just create it in gpsies to start with.

Why do you have to convert it after creating in Bikehike?

Because I ride a load of unchartered (for me) roads, that have no signposts, so I always ride them on the map view - if I only make the route on bikehike, I find the breadcrumb trail vanishes periodically, where as if I run it through gpsies, and set it to 'set trackpoints evenly' (I think it is), and medium track simplification, this does not happen - I happily admit I have no idea which of the above resolves it.

I have yet to get the waypoints working to my liking so far, but will have another go next weekend.
I tried to create the course entirely in gpsies, and set manual waypoints, and saved it asking it to alert me 500ft before the waypoint, but it would seem when the Garmin converted it to a .fit file, it loses this 500ft before setting, so next time out I will try and set the waypoints back accordingly from where they are required.

RidewithGPS for me

straight forward to use and good for getting a preview of elevation profiles

essex-commuter wrote:

Daniel B wrote:

essex-commuter wrote:

Daniel B wrote:

Does anyone use gpsies to create routes?

Due to my edge 500 not handling breadcrumb trails very well, I have been creating it in bikehike, then 'converting' it through gpsies, but I wonder if I should just create it in gpsies to start with.

Why do you have to convert it after creating in Bikehike?

Because I ride a load of unchartered (for me) roads, that have no signposts, so I always ride them on the map view - if I only make the route on bikehike, I find the breadcrumb trail vanishes periodically, where as if I run it through gpsies, and set it to 'set trackpoints evenly' (I think it is), and medium track simplification, this does not happen - I happily admit I have no idea which of the above resolves it.

I have yet to get the waypoints working to my liking so far, but will have another go next weekend.
I tried to create the course entirely in gpsies, and set manual waypoints, and saved it asking it to alert me 500ft before the waypoint, but it would seem when the Garmin converted it to a .fit file, it loses this 500ft before setting, so next time out I will try and set the waypoints back accordingly from where they are required.

If that's what is happening I can understand why you do it. The only reason I asked is that I have been using Bikehike for years now, both for road cycling, mountain biking, running and walking...and I always get a perfect track to follow along the map on my screen. All I do is export as a tcx.

Yeh I know, it is frustrating for us 500 owners, never had any issues with my edge 205, but they ballsed up the course facility allegedly in firmware version 2.5, and are now upto 3.2 iirc, and no change, so those of us who want this facility have to find workarounds.

What Garmin do you have, an 800?