Importing GPX File (Numpty Talk Please!)

[DJR9]

Hi There,

Please can anybody advise on how I put a GPX file onto my Garmin 810?  Numpty speak would be much appreciated!

Cheers

Dan

[Feanor]

The simple-to-the-point-of-being wrong answer is:

Plug the Garmin into the computer, and wait for it to appear as a mass storage device.
Then, in windows explorer ( Win-key + e ) navigate to the Garmin device which will have appeared as a drive;
Go into it, and navigate to the Garmin folder;
Inside the Garmin folder is another folder called NewFiles.
Dump the GPX here.
Back out to Windows Explorer top-level where you can see all the drives.
R-click the Garmin device and select eject.
Unplug the device, and re-boot it to complete the import.

Longer answer is 'it depends'.
It depends on what is in the GPX, and where it came from.

[DJR9]

Thanks for this, I'll give it a go tomorrow and see how I get on

[Pingu]

Hello Dan

Welcome to the forum & good luck 

Seriously, take time to look through the posts on the GPS board of this forum as there is a lot of good advice here. It just takes a bit of reading to find what you want 

[Euan Uzami]

Determine if yours is one of the Garmins that prefers tcx to gpx. If it is, try ing to get gpx working on it is like pissing in the wind. I once managed to prove a rumour that I was deemed "the authority on Garmins" completely wrong by failing to recognise this and another rider did it in 5 minutes when I'd been trying to mash a gpx into it for an hour like trying to hit a square peg into a round hole with a mallet.

[Feanor]

He's already said it's an 810.
Which is much the same as an 800.

The way imports work is just the same.
Mapsource etc just write out GPX files and dump them in the NewFiles folder.
This is also what you do to manually import things.

The GPX/TCX/FIT thing is to do with how it *records* things, not what it can import.
An 810 can import GPX just fine.
The 810 will *record* its tracklogs as *.fit files.
How to deal with these is a separate question.

[Euan Uzami]

If you can just drop a GPX on it you're golden. Sorry, wasn't sure which model it is that only takes tcx but there definitely is one. Think it might be a 500, maybe.

[Feanor]

To give some context to my rather cryptic initial reply that 'it depends',
here's a link to my advice on this ( to avoid re-typing ):

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=77840.msg1598273#msg1598273

R.

[frankly frankie]

He's already said it's an 810.
Which is much the same as an 800.
The way imports work is just the same.

Though it works better on the 810 I believe.  The 800 has that 'one track at a time' bug.