Keeping routes from my route app identical with my GARMIN ZUMO XT2

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Hi fellow riders. I own about Africa twin and after I got lost in some mountains I purchased a Garmin ZUMO XT2. So now I use car play with MRA always on and also I copy and use the routes in my Garmin device. So as a newbie pleas try to guide me as simple as you can in the following questions...

1. Which map of mar route planner should I use in order my routes from my route app and garmin XT2 be identical? I put some shaping points in order to force the route to pass from where I want.
2. What mode should my routes be when I export them from MRA to garmin XT2? GPX 1.1 or sth else?
3. Can someone explain to me simply the difference between track and route? I saw some guys projecting track with a fat line and route with a slimmer line?
4. Should I turn off auto recalculation at my Garmin XT2 and if so why? Cause sometimes I deviate bit for toilet or some rest.
   Thanks for your patience and please reply me if possible in simple words cause I'm a newbie. Cheers to all

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

Use the Here-map
Use gpx 1.1
Route = Calculated between the routepoints, Track has only start- and end point
Turn recalculation off when driving a planned route, make the track visible in the Zumo and go back to the route via as you can see the track on your screen. or when the route points are on a technical good place on the road, you can set recalculation on.

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Thank you Hans I'll give it a try. By the way does Here map has hybrid view cause I like to see the terrain when I design a route..By the way MRA route planner is top I think in designing routes And planning trips

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Aggelos-Minoudis
Yes, see the map layers

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Dear Hans, I've just transferred a route from MYroute to Garmin as a gps 1.1 file and they re identical. Please can you tell me on Garmin device how to make the track visible? ill turn the recalculation off. Also what do you mean when the route points are on a technical good place on the road to set recalc. on again? Why shouldn't I leave it on all the time? Thanx for your patience

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

Go to tracks on your device, open the track you want to edit, click on make visible. Place points after a roundabout, intersection or road junction

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Hi again , I managed to have visible the track and the route when I put both the track and the route at the same file in collections. Now I see the magenta line is not identical with the track line. What do I do now when I’ll navigate? Can I follow the track line at the points that two lines divide each other ? Or only the magenta line is driveable ? Thnx again

[Marinus van Deudekom]

The trackline would be the indication if you’re on the wright track

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Marinus hi ,
So when magenta drives me somewhere else, I’ll follow the track line right ?

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Aggelos-Minoudis yep but normally the both must be close to one another

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Thanks a lot Marinus!

[Guzt]

You probably use the Tread app to synchronise your routes. If you do, they will always be different as the Tread app recalculates your route. Save your route gpx 1.1 directly on the SD in the XT2 and import it using the app.