Downloading Garmin GPS Tracks to my Quest...
Wed, 02/04/2009 - 12:30am
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I've tried every possible way I can think of to download tracks from Mapsource to my Quest of a trail ride that a friend took through the Ozark National Forest. Mapsource appears to do the transfer correctly by showing the transfer progression bar and then saying 'the data was successfully sent'. However, the tracks do not show up when I look for them in the Quest. Apparently the unit is not accepting them. They look good on the Mapsource display, but nothing is getting to the Quest. The 'Track Setup' screen shows 0% tracks on file. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?
RE: loading tracks into a GPS
I've tried every possible way I can think of to download tracks from Mapsource to my Quest of a trail ride that a friend took through the Ozark National Forest. Mapsource appears to do the transfer correctly by showing the transfer progression bar and then saying 'the data was successfully sent'. However, the tracks do not show up when I look for them in the Quest. Apparently the unit is not accepting them. They look good on the Mapsource display, but nothing is getting to the Quest. The 'Track Setup' screen shows 0% tracks on file. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?
I'm not sure you can ever save tracks from mapsource to any GPS, not even if you try to save them to the same unit they came from.
I can upload tracks from my Nuvi 750 but trying to load them back into the same Nuvi using mapsource yeilds the same results you saw. Mapsource is happy that the transfer completed but there are actually no tracks saved back to the nuvi.
Frank
Frank, MA.
Load track into a Quest as routes
I've tried every possible way I can think of to download tracks from Mapsource to my Quest of a trail ride that a friend took through the Ozark National Forest. Mapsource appears to do the transfer correctly by showing the transfer progression bar and then saying 'the data was successfully sent'. However, the tracks do not show up when I look for them in the Quest. Apparently the unit is not accepting them. They look good on the Mapsource display, but nothing is getting to the Quest. The 'Track Setup' screen shows 0% tracks on file. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?
I came across this article which explains how you CAN load Garmin tracks into a Quest as routes. Here is the Link.
http://www.elsinga.net/206.html
good luck
Frank, MA.