Discussion: Uploading to RouteGadget

I uploaded from my Garmin 305 to RouteGadget for the first time today. It involved several steps and I am wondering if there is a simpler way to do it. Here's what I did: (1) uploaded my route from my Garmin 305 to Garmin Training Center, (2) copied my route (lap) from Garmin Training Center to a file and put in on my desktop, this was a .tcx file. (3) Went to MotionBased.com and uploaded this .tcx file. (4) exported the file from MotionBased to a file on my desktop in the GPX format and finally (5) uploaded the GPX file to RouteGadget. How can I simplify this?

I never use Garmin Training Centre. Download Sport Tracks from http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/SportTracks/.

Then you import direct from your 305 to Sport Tracks, and save the file as a GPX, which you can then upload toRouteGadget.

I have no issue with uploading to RouteGadegt, but I do wonder why *every* user that uploads a GPS track has to move and stretch the track to get it to align with the map.

Surely if the map is geo-referenced once - either by the person that uploads it or by the first person to upload a track, then this could be used as a reference for all subsequent uploads? ...or perhaps I've misunderstood and it already does this?

Streching ... it's good for you ;)

Well, I think usually everyone would have to to move and stretch it anyway even if the first upload is used as a reference. You never know well the first one does it even if he does his best.

For example, imagine you uploading first and geo-referencing the map with your track. How well Jim's much longer long route - going far outside the area you visited - would get aligned, no matter how well you try to do it?

http://www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au/gadget/cgi-bi...

That's why I never bothered to do it, it would be better idea to use splits times and control coordinates to auto align the route. But new code doesn't pop up by themselves without someone helping it little bit.

Jagge
You could have picked a better example using the same two runners. http://www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au/gadget/cgi-bi...
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I use much the same process, except I take the tcx file from Garmin Training Centre as input into a stand alone workstation application OTrack and create the gpx file.
If I didn't have OTrack I would be using SportTracks.
Until Training Centre provides a gpx file export facility that's about the best option.
If anyone else has a simpler process I'd be pleased to hear it.

I also use sport tracks with forerunner, I haven't had G training center even installed for ages. But I don't do O with it any more, I use a cheap logger and gpsbabel command line tool to read data right from the unit to a gpx file (I just double click a bat and it wirelessly connects to the BT gps and writes each run as gpx file named by date&time of each run).

I am well aware of all those missing features and badly working ones, there is lots of them. Like those gps calibration issues, missing support for tcx format (I did it for Garmin hst, but soon they changed the format again to tcx and I lost intrest...), dot animation should be written again with option for mass start at every control an from at any point. There is things to fix in manager part too, like relay support (have you ever seen well set up SI relay in RG?). And new live tracking feature is only half finished, cell phone viewer client crash if there is a dot with scandinavian letters (I can't even use my own name there) and so on.

Jagge, if someone (understand me) likes to write a gps phone app to upload to routegadget, (basically what you are working on) does Routegadget has API that can be used with the live tracking? I might be interested to play with it, not that I have much time, and not sure about my motivation after coding for 9 - 10 hours a day at work :). But hey you never know....

Nikolay, check your email.