A work around for having favorites saved on my 2018 Venture GPS

[dave_wells]

My big issue with the new Venture GPS is that you can not:

 

1. Save a location while out riding and store it for future reference

2. The lack of inputting locations and naming them

3. There is an option to Import way-points. This is not an import. The device just reads the file from the flash drive.

4. Way too many extra steps when putting in an address.

 

 

I found a work around that has made it easier to manage some favorites.

 

This involves :

1. Google Maps --- Search your destination - Select directions and copy the URL

2. Maps to GPX -- https://mapstogpx.com/ Paste the copied URL in the box

 

To make it easy to find, Check the Route Name box and name it

 

The GPS looks for a folder in the root of the flash drive named GPX.

Create a folder named GPX and save all the files in that folder.

 

The GPS will give you a couple of options. My choice is always the end point.

 

I hope someone find this helpful.

[djh3]

Boy the few threads I have read on forums, it is almost like someone tried hard to make the unit hard to operate. From day one with the firmware update on.

[sldunker]

Very interesting. Think I"ll play around with this. Thanks

[GreenMtnHunter]

Thank you! I have tried other apps: "Ride with GPS" and "MyRoute-app" and the GPX reader "TrailRunner mini — GPX Viewer" in combination with my Mac, seem to have been responsible for the main page "locking up" on my 2018 SVTC. "Navigation not ready" remained on the screen until I performed "delete all personal data", twice....

I began to experience issues shortly after uploading a GPX file, and within an hour, the main screen would not move from "Nav. not ready" The GPS knew it's location the: the street and speed continued to display on all pages that it should have, but I could not create a new destination or see the Nav "Home" page.

[dragonstorm]

So when you select "End Point" it will start navigating to the end point through all the way points you have set up in Googlemaps? I saw that option but when I did that it just sent me straight to the end point and that was it. So I was curious how to set up the entire route . . . I am leaving for Colorado this weekend and would like to set up a few routes to put on a thumbdrive.

 

My big issue with the new Venture GPS is that you can not:

 

The GPS looks for a folder in the root of the flash drive named GPX.

Create a folder named GPX and save all the files in that folder.

 

The GPS will give you a couple of options. My choice is always the end point.

 

I hope someone find this helpful.

[sldunker]

So when you select "End Point" it will start navigating to the end point through all the way points you have set up in Googlemaps? I saw that option but when I did that it just sent me straight to the end point and that was it. So I was curious how to set up the entire route . . . I am leaving for Colorado this weekend and would like to set up a few routes to put on a thumbdrive.

 

Try changing your gps to scenic route. I believe it defaults to fastest route.

[dragonstorm]

Try changing your gps to scenic route. I believe it defaults to fastest route.

 

I'll check that but I would have thought since I had 10 different way points that it would have followed those a priority but I'll try that, thanks.