What do I ask for?

[England-Kev]

on a recent trip to europe I used a friends Zumo as he was over from the US, so wanted the tracks for when he got back home, but I too would like to view where we went on our trips around the countryside, so what do I have to ask him to send me, and where will he find it on his zumo? also does it make any difference the fact that he is on a Mac machine and I use a PC, are the files save differently?

 

[robroy]

What you are after are called "Track Logs" and are stored in GPX format.

If you plug your Zumo into a USB port (and wait while it does a "Preparing to enter USB mass storage mode" step), you will find a new drive (probably called "Garmin") appear in your windoze explorer or Mac Finder. If you have a SD card in the Zumo there will be a second new drive for the SD card.

In the Garmin "drive", find a folder also called Garmin.

In there is a file "Current.gpx" that is the current track log. You will also find a sub-folder called Archive that contains (you guessed it) archived gpx files. These are the files you are looking for.

You can load those GPX files into MapSource (Windows), RoadTrip (Mac) or straight into Google Earth.

Hope this helps

Rob

 

[ianboydsnr]

in the GPS section

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156514

 

[England-Kev]

Thanks Rob, I will get him to e-mail them across to me...

What you are after are called "Track Logs" and are stored in GPX format.

If you plug your Zumo into a USB port (and wait while it does a "Preparing to enter USB mass storage mode" step), you will find a new drive (probably called "Garmin") appear in your windoze explorer or Mac Finder. If you have a SD card in the Zumo there will be a second new drive for the SD card.

In the Garmin "drive", find a folder also called Garmin.

In there is a file "Current.gpx" that is the current track log. You will also find a sub-folder called Archive that contains (you guessed it) archived gpx files. These are the files you are looking for.

You can load those GPX files into MapSource (Windows), RoadTrip (Mac) or straight into Google Earth.

Hope this helps

Rob

 

[Kenny Rodkiss]

What you are after are called "Track Logs" and are stored in GPX format.

there is a file "Current.gpx" that is the current track log. You will also find a sub-folder called Archive that contains (you guessed it) archived gpx files. These are the files you are looking for.

You can load those GPX files into MapSource (Windows), RoadTrip (Mac) or straight into Google Earth.

Hope this helps

Rob

I too have my holliday tracklogs in the archiive folder, but,

there are 11 folders at the moment and each contain various numbers of days track logs.

But some folders contain the same track logs as other folders??

It does not seem to save them in chronological?

folder (ie) 5 might have some of a days route but the rest of the route would be in another folder with some other days routes.
Why does the zumo550 archive this way?

 

[England-Kev]

there are 11 folders at the moment and each contain various numbers of days track logs.

But some folders contain the same track logs as other folders??

It does not seem to save them in chronological?
Why does the zumo550 archive this way?

true.. I got sent 10 files, some have the same tracks, some have a complete track over a couple of days, some only part tracks, very confusing..