@Albert-Renting said in Transfer from MRA to ZUMO XT, working from MacBook:

@Reinhard-32
I've tried this and it seems to work!
I have to place these .gpx files in a directory where I can find them with the (in Dutch) 'bestanden' app and then I can send them to the Drive app and then that app will send the .gpx files to my ZUMO XT.

Thanks for the tip!

If the above means you are using an iPad then use the Chrome Browser.
This will allow you to simply download the GPX Beta XT file and then once it it downloaded it will automatically give you the “Open In” prompt where you can select the Garmin Drive App.
If the Drive App is not showing the first time you do this select “More” and choose the Drive App.
It will then always be available.

Safari will force you to save the file to a location and will not give you the prompt to “Open In”.
Therefore you have to go looking for the file.

Some clarity on the Garmin Zumo XT and older GPX files.
In both cases below I am sending the GPX files to the Zumo XT via the Garmin Drive App.

If I send the GPX 1.0 to the Zumo XT it tells me I have too many “Stops” so I presume at this point it is seeng my waypoints as Via Points.
It then gives me another pop up with the option to convert them all to Shaping Points.
I accept the changes and the route is created in the Trip Planner perfectly.
The Track is also created perfectly with no straight lines.

If I send the GPX 1.1 (Not the Beta XT version) to the Zumo XT it automatically see’s all my waypoints as Shaping Points. (I never use Via Points.) and automatically creates the route in the Trip Planner and the Track is also perfect with no straight lines.

@Greenham

My personal choice for the XT is to transfer the Beta Zumo XT GPX1.1 using the Garmin Drive App. I generally use an iPad Pro for this.
This creates the route automatically in the Trip Planner App on the XT.
I only use Shaping Points and I make a point of adding at least 1 shaping point on every road I want to travel on regardless of how long the route is.

This works for me, it has never recalculated on me and when I get a road closure it will prompt a couple of U-Turns which I ignore and it will automatically find its way back to the shaping points I plotted in MRA.

I don’t find that I need any track visible to get me back on my route.

When I do go off road, UK Green Lanes (Byways Open to All Traffic) then tracks are perfect.
I plot them in the OS Maps App and transfer directly to the Garmin via a PC.
You do not get any notifications or turns you simply follow the Track visually.
Below is Salisbury Plains with 74 individual Green Lanes placed in a Collection to make them all visible on the map at once.

@Nick-Carthew

Haven’t had an iPhone for a few years now but I rarely find the the need to even consider looking at traffic issues as I purposefully place myself on “Roads Less Travelled”.

I do love an iPad though for taking on tour.

Remember the iPhone 4 Antenna issue, you couldn’t make it up!
I bought a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 when they first came out.
There was an issue with it that Microsoft completely denied for quite some time.
About six months in it developed screen shaking that made it unusable.
Luckily if I connected it to an external monitor there were no issues.

Yes I agree it is refreshing to see a company not trying to sweep issues under the carpet.

@Drabslab said in Garmin Zumo 396:

I silently hope that MRA will grow to become a de-facto standard with routing and navigation in one coherent package that works in an identical way independent of whether it is installed on an apple, pc, android or whatever else is invented at some stage.

<Fan Boy Mode>
I would say that MRA is already 95% there as the “defacto-standard” as I challenge anyone to give me an example of any other software route planner that can transfer to so many different device types.
</Fan Boy Mode>

Let us not forget that that Garmin updated the Garmin Drive App some time ago that crashed on opening for a while.
Then there were issues with the Garmin XT specifically which MRA assigned a developer to,, this was resolved rapidly.

Regarding standardisation of a GPX format, forget it!
The big 2 are undoubtably Garmin and Tom Tom.
They both have completely different ideas how routes should be planned.
Tom Tom are going for Tracks and Garmin are going for Shaping and Via Points.
This is where MRA becomes our knight in shining armour.

@PAD-0
Couldn’t agree more with you.
There are a million and 1 reasons that times and even planned routes can be messed up completely and I also never use Via Points and never will.

How many times have we all pulled up at a restaurant/cafe to find that every table is occupied.
The guy in the group that invites his nephew who just passed his test yesterday but doesn’t tell anyone he is coming. You can throw all your timings completely out of the window.
The guy that ignored the coolant light on his bike and chanced it for just one more ride.
Etc etc etc.

@Aiello-antonio

I have found that using the Chrome browser causes some MRA Web issues.
To give one example If you go to the Library Chrome it will not scroll down to show the Countries list whereas using Safari it will.

It’s the same on my iPad Pro and my older 6th Gen smaller iPad

@Nick-Carthew

That’s awesome Nick.
I also saw the leg antics on your Miltary Road vid.