Journeys on the Edge 800 begin this series of comparative Pathways between the Garmin and the E-roadbooks CompeGPS, describing how they create each other, I think knowing is created, you can better understand the functioning of both, and understanding them, we decide which is better and is better suited to our needs .
must be said that (at least for me) are the two best methods of navigating off road as much in one as in the other, we can afford not to address the navigation screen, and when we get to travel a specific point (which we have previously checked), it is responsible for issuing an audible signal, and illuminate the screen to warn of the maneuver to perform.
So we started with the first method, which is the tcx, or Garmin Trip. I have to remind you that the tcx format is a format that is only present in the range of Garmin fitness, so it is not a valid method for the Oregon range or Dakota, and refer to tcx, I will refer specifically for use in the latest model brought to market by Garmin, which is the Edge 800.
tcx format (Xml Training Center), no longer a xml format, like the Gpx, but with the caveat that it is a format created by Garmin for use with the software's own mark, in this case Training Center, a program that is designed to manage workouts, their creation and the creation of paths. Despite being a format "own" today's major software market, type Sport Tracks, Rubi Track, etc, are understood to perfection with this format and read it without problems. The tcx, also incorporate more data in gpx file structure, this is due, because you're designed for a specific range (fitness), incorporate data plus location, heart rate, cadence, (the latter are stored in gpx also) because of calories, laps (laps) training, etc, etc.
As a tcx think that I may have to navigate and get directions?
OK to do this, you first must have the Training Center:
here. Once downloaded and installed on your computer, pluck (the catch is made with the Mac version of TC, since it is the OS I use).
have already started, and now there are two methods to create a course:
Create a path from a gpx, which is how I will explain, (eg a Wikiloc downloaded track or a track that you sent a friend), or from a previous trip. To do this, 1 must import the gpx in question, go to File --- Import menu.
We will see a dialog box to choose our gpx.
Select the track, and we import it, in this case it saved in a folder for the year and month of completion of the activity.
now imported gpx becomes part of our history CT, since CT can not change the characteristics of the track, ie color, remove points, etc, etc. To do this, use the Basecamp, Mapsource, or other more comprehensive tools, such as CompeGPS. We can only change the sport that we want to identify the activity, for this right-click on the imported activity, and we get the following shortcut menu, with which we can assign the sport.
As we have imported the track perfectly, and associated with the sport right now we have to create the path that will help us to navigate and the gps We show the ads, both acoustic and visual.
clicking on the track imported in the previous step with the right mouse button and choose the next option.
We have changed our format gpx route (tcx), will appear in the list of course, with the default name "New Journey".
can rename it by double clicking on the name and edit it without problem, I will call the test "Test."
We have it amended, now proceed to edit it for our Edge 800, let us know as we approach a turn, or a particular point of our journey. To this end, we selected, will appear in the map screen (you have an option to change the view between the different maps you have installed on your computer). We zoom in / potential hot spots (in this case will choose a deviation to the right).
Item 1 we mark the address and the address item 2 right that we take. At a point close to the turning point, we locate our stopover, in which our Edge 800 want to let us know with a beep and illuminating the screen. To do this we must choose the Add Path Point, which is this.
And it click in the exact spot where we want to let us know, for example here. And once this is done we will leave the dialog box that will allow us to change the name and icon that will appear on the map 1, and then the gps screen notification.
This new section will appear in the statistics window, just below the path, and would look like.
And so on until we do end up editing the way, this is such a snapshot of part of a trip with your points and finished.
can put as many points as we need, this is a screenshot of the map view, which is appreciated as are the icons we associate the point way.
We have finished editing the tcx, now select it and choose the option to send the device (if you have previously connected to the PC Edge 800) and automatically send it to us device.
We're done. We already have our Edge 800 the journey perfectly created and saved, and which will avoid having to go pending the screen of your gps, and more time enjoying the scenery, and notify us before they reach the point indicated.
and choose Turn On the Edge Pathways option
and choose the path that we created in the TC
We see the following screen you will see the route depicted on the map (you can zoom, but inexplicably does not let us move around the map ..... if someone understands, -9) and we are also 4 buttons appear.
1 Button, this button can set various parameters of the journey as the color of it if we want to see permanently on the map (this is another method of navigation), the notice of diversion, turn by turn directions, whether or not to compete against the Virtual Partner etc, etc, if you press will appear this.
indications of rotation, are only valid if you have routable road maps City Navigator type.
Button 2, if we click we will see a brief description of the various parameters of the journey.
Button 3, we draw Graph the path profile and do not show at all times on the same point where we are.
And finally the 4 button, used to clear the path of our Edge 800
Once we know to serve the buttons to begin browsing through our journey we simply choose the option
Go
And we can begin to follow the journey quietly with no distractions, no matter screen in which we find within the diverse displays the Edge 800, we will always be a visual signal to approaching the stopover, I leave a few catches in different screens and notice that appears on the screen, there remember that if we take the backlight off, this will be activated (remember that the Edge 800 is not used to configure the terminal to take the screen completely off), the message with its icon, and beep.
also warn us if we stray from the path, another type of acoustic signal (different from the warning track points), and so it will tell us a Once back to our journey.
and asset carrying a tcx, another screen appears to us as a logbook, which allows us to see the distance and time left to each of the stopovers included in the very function tcx .... useful and intuitive.
Well, with this term and explanation of the routes of the Garmin Edge range, as can be seen, are extremely useful and clear, and I think that, along with e CompeGPS-roadbooks the easiest method to follow a path. What I still do not understand is how this method of indications, not included in Oregon and Dakota ranges, ranges that lack any simple method to obtain visual or audible warning when approaching a waypoint, for example :-(.
Pros sketch format (Tcx):
Ease of creation.
greatly improve the way of navigating a track.
not need to go pending the gps screen. Notices
data on any screen you are referring to the gps.
Off Course warning and notice if you find it again.
Cons:
Limitation of customization points, since you can not for example put the icon you want.
inability to see full-screen instructions.
Limitation of characters that can include the name of the track points.
not able to raise or lower the volume of the alarm.
can not set the distance of the track points to which we want to let us know.
Well, after the latest update from Garmin for the internal firmware Edge 800 (version 2.20), we must say that the unit gains a lot, because it shows extremely stable and reliable . I've tried has made a number of changes in "hot" data such as changing the data screens, which previously meant that the terminal block, and it is impossible, is very stable, have disappeared resounding failure that caused the coming home in 2 hours output dump data to the computer and is appearing in Antarctica, etc, etc, all fixed.
Some people question whether moving to this model, or buy an Edge 705, and the latter is being descatalogación by Garmin, and has experienced a fairly significant price drop. Honestly can not recommend it for all the Edge 705, the number of failures that has made and continues giving, do not believe that Garmin and remove any update to the 705, so if you decide to buy this model, you buy with the failures of "series." The Edge 800 is the top end of the Edge series now, and have released firmware updates for correcting the failures that had so far, and now on the implementations that will draw will be to add new features. You decide
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