Comments on: Using Google Maps Route Data on Garmin EDGE

By: breadedcod

breadedcod — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:31:01 +0000

Sorry Roger – haven’t looked at Windows for this, as I was under the impression that the Garmin Windows software was pretty reasonable.

As we have a new arrival in the household, I’ve been a bit distracted of late Let me see if I can have a go at the same instructions for you.

By: roger

roger — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:21:33 +0000

please help-cannot get this to work with windows- GPSBabel only has input as a file with no device output (via usb) -but will work other way ’round; eg can import from Garmin, which is the opposite of what I want!

By: breadedcod

breadedcod — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:03:49 +0000

Gary, I think if you check the preferences in TextEdit, it's probably set to RTF by default

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). You can switch to plain text in there, or if you want to just do a plain text now and again, you can select the whole text and use Format > Make Plain Text. Then just save the file out as previously described.

By: Gary Fryett

Gary Fryett — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:18:04 +0000

I’ve followed your excellent guide but when I save file in textedit it is saved as a RTF file and not a GPX file. Am i doing something very stupid?

Regards

Gary

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