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Old 10-31-19 | 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve B.
I believe that Kamoot is popular with folks doing long tours, thus might be worth the subscription. It's also a free Garmin iQ app you can install on the Edge 1000. If that works like the RWGPS iQ app it lets you access the routes developed on Kamoot and download routes directly to the device via a smartphone and BlueTooth. That feature in with the RWGPS iQ app is really useful.

As note about the iQ app. You visit the iQ store using the Garmin Connect Mobile app, select an app, download to the device for install. You then access the iQ apps on the device, it launches the app and (as with RWGPS) you connect to the route planning server to access the routes you've developed (or some of them - most recent as example). You then select Download and Ride. It works great with RWGPS in my experience and other than the Garmin Connect developed courses, is the easiest method to get a web created course to the device.
I downloaded iQ. All that does is give me a "high tech/user friendly/non-engineering/non-programmer" method for "transferring" a track/route file.

If the file itself doesn't have TBT and is segmented then iQ, as interesting and fancy as it may be, does me absolutely no good. I can simply move the file to the right folder and skip iQ entirely.
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