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Pic 1 shows a very distinctive shaped route that I have called ‘Whitby’ plotted on my explore.garmin.com website.

Once Explore has been synchronised with the XT, the route can be viewed on the XT screen - usually in a matter of moments, but it can be forced from the Spanner Icon if it doesn’t happen quickly enough. Your Smartphone with the Drive App needs to be within Bluetooth range.

The resulting route does not get loaded into Trip Planner. It is not a Trip as such. Instead, go to:

Where To -> Explore -> Routes -> Whitby

 

 

Pic 2 shows the preview map of the route after it has been received and calculated by the XT. It seems to ensure that all of the points that were placed on the website are visited, and calculates the fastest time (as set on the XT) between those points. This is pretty much as I expected - with a few differences where minor roads have been taken to ‘cut a corner’.

Note that there are no shaping points or via points on the route between the start and the end. The points that I plotted in Explore do not show up on the XT route, although the route is calculated to go through those points.

The start of the original route is at the orange flag. The green flag is where the satnav is located, so route to get to the start has also been calculated.

When navigating it gave all of the turn by turn directions, but then I took a different route. It nagged to do a U turn, which I ignored. After many prompts and I guess about 5 minutes of trying, it navigated me ahead. I assumed that it was heading for the nearest point on the route from my location - which would have been in the direction I was going - so I stopped to check.

 

I noted some surprising things.

• Although the original route seems to have used the points that I plotted in Explore, these don’t appear as either shaping points or Via Points in the route on the XT. There is nothing to hold the route into place, if it recalculates.
   
• The preview map, obtained by tapping the top bar, and then the map symbol, showed the route unaltered exactly as it was in Pic 1. When I tapped on the live map, reduced its size and pointed it north up, it showed the route it was actually leading me along. The two maps were different.
   
• It wasn’t leading me to the nearest point of the route. (Although it did cross over it, but didn’t pick up the original route from that point). Instead, it had recalculated the entire route to the destination, missing out all of the roads that I had plotted. No prompts were given. I had expected (was hoping) that it would do what the Track-Trip did, and assume the course of the original. It didn’t.
   

 

The facility to transfer a route from the Explore site to the XT is superb. But what it does with it is then less useful for my needs. I’m hoping that this is work in progress from Garmin.