Designing routes with training software ?

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Hello ,I have an edge 205 at the moment and I'm looking into making up courses with the software that came with it.

I happen to have another garmin device ,so I actually have city navigator 9 available to plot routes on ,with the edge 205 software.

I don't see any way of mapping out routes ,while using the training software.
But ,I can view my course that I cycled on navigator 9 ,which is brilliant I think:)

Any ideas of what I can do ?

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EDIT : Sorry I managed to get what I wanted ,I can use mapsource software and directly upload to the edge unit.

Cool ,I've just calculated a bicycle route to carlow town from Dublin

blorg

I use www.bikeroutetoaster.com

Robin1982

_Brian_ wrote:

...I can use mapsource software and directly upload to the edge unit...

I downloaded mapsource - the maps of Ireland only use main national roads. Have I downloaded the correct one?

blorg wrote:

I use www.bikeroutetoaster.com

This one looks great and is very easy to use. It is a brand new site though so some feature are lacking at the moment. Is there a location where you can download other people's courses?

blorg

Robin1982 wrote:

I downloaded mapsource - the maps of Ireland only use main national roads. Have I downloaded the correct one?

I'd be interested in the answer to this one myself.

This one looks great and is very easy to use. It is a brand new site though so some feature are lacking at the moment. Is there a location where you can download other people's courses?

I don't think on that site but there are others which specialise in that, e.g.

www.bikely.com
www.routeslip.com
www.mapmyride.com
www.motionbased.com

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Mapsource is garmins program for calculating routes and uploading to a device.

The maps you see with it ,are the ones that come with the edge unit. If you have navigator aswell ,it should be in the drop down menu .
I have a nuvi gps and thats where I got the mapping.

This is city navigator 9 detail .
http://www.garmin.com/cgi-bin/mapgen/webmap.cgi?p=12976129&l=0&u=1&v=0&z=2&x=175&y=175&w=480&h=360&d=0&rz=0&k=1&sc=1

Dirk Gently

With the edge 205 is it possible to plan a route before actually doing it and let the device guide you as you cycle or do you have to actually do the route first and record it?

Dirk Gently

_Brian_ wrote:

This is city navigator 9 detail .
http://www.garmin.com/cgi-bin/mapgen/webmap.cgi?p=12976129&l=0&u=1&v=0&z=2&x=175&y=175&w=480&h=360&d=0&rz=0&k=1&sc=1

If I wanted coverage of the north wicklow area could I install another map on the device showing me all the roads? As the name suggests that map system is pretty light outside of the city.

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I picked out a simple route around the phoenix park and through phibsboro ,sent it to the edge 205 . Went into navigation and then routes and picked the route .
A line is drawn on the screen to follow.

I've done the same for a route to carlow from dublin ,but a line doesn't seem to appear. I haven't physically tried starting to complete the route though. There seems to be a series of flags with numbers .

I'll post up any results I get with longer routes ,maybe the range of the edge is not compatible in longer routes

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clown bag wrote:

If I wanted coverage of the north wicklow area could I install another map on the device showing me all the roads? As the name suggests that map system is pretty light outside of the city.

It's not the roads that get transfered from mapsource ,it's just co-ordinates. Somehow the edge unit ,joins the dots to form lines .
It's navigation alright ,but more breadcrumb navigation as opposed to alternative routes.