Can use the bluetooth to overlay your route onto your smartphone with the LiveTracking feature which is on both 510 and 810.Tazzy I was about to ask the same sort of thing
I want to use one to download basic maps , just to give me a ruff idea of trails and how to gets back to where I started from
You can buy topo maps online that you can load (heard of open source torrents but researched it myself) and fairly sure you can download gpx files from strava and elsewhere to load too. Not sure about PDF, don't think it holds enough coordinate info.Sounds like the 810 is the go for me . I know I can get it for around 500 on cycling websites but my mountains will do it for 600 so am happy with that as warranty and help setting it up is just way easier when lbs is involed. Does anyone know if you have a PDF of anarea with maps on it canyon load them into the GPS or do you have to ride them first..?
Recently bought an 810 full bundle at a LBS, they were only a few bucks more than 99bikes so it was a no brainer.
Yes download other peoples GPX files from strava, garmin, ridewithGPS... ect then get guided around the trail turn by turn as if they were showing you themselves.
There is free maps avaliable but I just bought the garmin topo's as it saves any messing around.
So routable mapping of trails works, even if they're not on the garmin maps?Yes download other peoples GPX files from strava, garmin, ridewithGPS... ect then get guided around the trail turn by turn as if they were showing you themselves.
Hi bowtaj, the 500 allows you to dump a map that someone else has created and made public. Also, the Garmin site comes with google/bing maps where you can zoom in and plot your own map. You then download it to your unit and you're off, the 500 will let you know when you go off course. I am pretty sure that the map function on the 810 is more advanced but the 500’s maps are great for what I want. I have ridden Glenrock before but I noticed the other day a map that someone has made public and it has sections that I haven’t been on so I've downloaded them and will give them a go tomorrow.rumblefish, that sounds like what I'm after,
as an example, i'm going to glenrock in a couple of weeks
so would like to download some sort of basic map just as a guide
im not sure if the maps im referring to are the same maps that are on the 810
The 500 does have calories and HR and a stack of other information,much of which you will never use.Pharmaboy , good call , that unit sounds better as I don't really need all the bullshit (calories, heart rate) that the others have
as long as i can download trails from web sites, it looks sturdier than the others as well as cheaper