2610 & Mapsource - Muppetry or Malfunction?

[Nin]

Hi GPS gurus

I'm in dire need of some help. What I'm trying to achieve is:

1. in Memory Map 2004, trace a track over all the legal byways etc I've picked off the definitive map;
2. Export this overlay to GPSU (memory map 2004 doesn't talk to 2610 through a USB)
3. Export it from GPSU as a *.GPX file
4. Import the *.gpx file into Mapsource
5. Dump the tracks from Mapsource onto the 2610.

How tricky can that be?

So point 1 - check, achieved, hurrah!
point 2 - ditto
point 3 - easy!
point 4 - doddle
point 5 - yawn - er, hang on, no. I can see the tracks in Mapsource, but when I "send to device" despite it telling me it sent correctly, nothing appears on the 2610. Bugger.

I CAN upload a track I generated on the 2610 by driving round the block

Help!?

 

[Sir James]

Whatton's having ..............................

 

[Sir James]

He'll be along in a minute

 

[John Armstrong]

Have you tried sending it as a route? Maybe the 2610 recognises that what you have done hasn't been generated by a GPS.

 

[judge]

You can upload tracks into a 2610 and route with them

I know you can download the captured tracks from a 2610 into Mapsource, I 'think' that may be your problem.

So far as I know you have no way of re-calling a track from a 2610's memory when its in the unit. All you have is a track 'dump' which when downloaded from the 2610 is broken out into individual tracks.

Me thinks this is a limitation of the streetpilot range and you need something like an Etrex or one of the Garmin GPSXX range.

As a cumbersome workaround you could at point 4 in your list when you have the track on the screen use the route tool to trace a route over the track and save that as a route, upload this to your 2610 and recall it through the route list.

Though when he's finished having his tug Whatton can correct me

 

[Taff]

Some tug.

But in the meantime, this may be total bollx but isn't there a limit on the number of track points the 2610 can hold? Its 5,000 IIRC.

Any idea how many track points you are trying to download to the unit?

 

[Deleted account W]

As John and Judge say, you need to turn the track into a route using mapsource before you upload it to the unit

 

[Nin]

Ah.

cheers Whatton.

Some daft questions about routes coming up no doubt ...

Simon

 

[judge]

As John and Judge say, you need to turn the track into a route using mapsource before you upload it to the unit

phew! Thought I might be in for one of these

 

[Nin]

Hurrah - it works!

Whatton, you're a steely-eyed rocket man. Thanks v much.

Nin

 

[John Armstrong]

Hurrah - it works!

Whatton, you're a steely-eyed rocket man. Thanks v much.

Nin

No problem, glad to help

 

[Nin]

No problem, glad to help

Er ... and John and Judge are steely eyed rocket men too.

Attention to detail not my big thing ...