Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
I have an Edge 800 and a Fenix 3, occasionally use the navigation features on both.
I put the Open Street Maps on my 800, and have been having good luck with them for the most part.
Have you seen this post by DCR on how to do it?
I don't usually pre-plan a route, although I'm doing it more often lately. Normally when I want the Edge to navigate for me I'll touch my destination on the map and have it create a route on the fly. It's set to avoid main highways when possible. This works pretty well for me. When my plans change, I'll just ride around the obstacle or whatever it is that forced the change, watching the map until I find my way back to the route.
I'm generally familiar with it. The two issues I outlined are: at least some of the data (like the "routeable bike map") has incredibly small font/text size in my region (here is one example:
http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/...pshynh5rxw.jpg) and doing a Google search, seemed to reveal it's perhaps not common, but is no rare. this is at least in Garmin Basecamp, which is a program one can use to create routes. Secondly, I have store credit to Target and I could use it to purchase a micro SD card, but with the font of the street names being incredibly small, I'm not sure about that route. I will at least see if I can upload OSM data onto the Edge 810 which I'm not sure whether I've tried it yet.
Doing a route on the fly is not really something I think I'm inclined to try because of roads/streets I'd want to avoid (though maybe I'd be surprised by its capabilities) and other roads/streets/paths inclined to want to ride on instead as well as wanting to go on rides of a certain mileage range/time.