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(This is another technical tutorial intended less for the friends list and more for the confused users out there googling for help)
The Forerunner is more ultra-fancy pedometer than navigation system, but since it runs by GPS, it can perform amazing feats of navigation too, limited by a UI intended more for athletic training than navigation and, of course, the tiny screen needed to fit on the wrist.
It is possible to define a route and upload it to the Forerunner, and let it tell you which way to go and when a turn is coming up using the Navigation/Route mode.
You can define a path in Google Earth, using Add Path and clicking out a series of waypoints. Once done, right-click on the path in the "places" list and select "save place as" and save it in kml form. Now the trick is converting that into something the Forerunner will accept as a route.
This will transform the trackpoints into routepoints and upload them as a route. You do seem to lose the name of the route in the process. It does, at least, seem to work.
The Forerunner is more ultra-fancy pedometer than navigation system, but since it runs by GPS, it can perform amazing feats of navigation too, limited by a UI intended more for athletic training than navigation and, of course, the tiny screen needed to fit on the wrist.
It is possible to define a route and upload it to the Forerunner, and let it tell you which way to go and when a turn is coming up using the Navigation/Route mode.
You can define a path in Google Earth, using Add Path and clicking out a series of waypoints. Once done, right-click on the path in the "places" list and select "save place as" and save it in kml form. Now the trick is converting that into something the Forerunner will accept as a route.
gpsbabel -i kml -f YourRoute.kml -x transform,rte=trk,del -r -o garmin -F usb:
This will transform the trackpoints into routepoints and upload them as a route. You do seem to lose the name of the route in the process. It does, at least, seem to work.
