Converting tracks into a route?

[susst]

I might be missing something blindly obvious, in which case apologies, but how do I convert some tracks into a route?

I have ridden various routes with the tracking on that I wanted to keep as a route for the future but dont know how?

I have tried to find this info elsewhere, I looked under help on mapsource but no luck, so the question ain't a lazy one if you get my drift, it may well be a stupid one though!

Help please?

PS Ive got a 2610 and am using the latest 6.3 mapsource.

 

[Capt Over-reaction]

TRACKS

Had a look in mapsource help, and it seems you can save your track to your PC and name it, you can edit it as well. Then when you want to do that track again, you just find it on your PC then load it to your GPS. Then I think you just have to follow the track real time, ie, the GPS will not tell you where to go. The other thing to do is to display the track on mapsource and just add a route along the same points of the track.

 

[Mick_rw]

On the SPIII

you don't have the ability to save a track as a route, the way I get round it is to select the track and show it on the map, then select the route icon, then click the start and a couple of points along the track to the end. This will automatically save it as a route for you. I am using Ver 5 Mapsource. Hope that is of some help. All done on a PC then transfered to and from GPS

Mick

Unless some one knows a better way.....

 

[susst]

tracks

Ah not such a stupid question then? you'd have thought those clever bods at Garmin would have thought of an easy way to do this.

I have tried the advice above, only problem is trying to complete a route along the tracks, the route will not recognise tracks that went off road, for example I went through Clumber park and the routing tool tries the route me via recognised roads.

thanks for the help

 

[Howard Millichap]

I think you're expecting too much. The 2610 and SP3 is an automotive unit and Garmin obviously don't expect you to go off-road with it. Shame really 'coz I do.
My e-trex vista and its ilk has a "Track-back" facility which is basically what you're after.
The only way around the problem on my SP3, which I've used when trail riding, is to create lots of waypoints along the route on the PC then load it into the unit.

 

[DOWNUNDER]

SUSST,
Try changing your routing preference to "OFF ROAD".

Do this:
MENU>Route>Routing Setup>Route Preferences>Off Road.

 

[arthursc]

sussed??

Downunder.

After reading your last post;

SUSST,
Try changing your routing preference to "OFF ROAD".

Do this:
MENU>Route>Routing Setup>Route Preferences>Off Road.

What did you do with it then??