turbo19 wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 6:10 am
It's supposed to be a device for travel, and I don't find it very user-friendly to have to carry around a microSD card or cable transferring things to the device every day. Often I'm traveling in a city and I plan a short route for the day, with 2-3 sightseeing stops, and it should sync everything properly and respect the routes drawn in Tread (which it doesn't). Anyway, we'll see what happens when the new device comes out.
I agree with that aspect completely. But I have never had an issue with creating on the fly - mainly because I don't do it a great deal. Only to try it and see - it has never behaved unexpectedly. I did test this thoroughly on the XT1 - it was doing this that confirmed that saved routes never displayed RUT behaviour when the same route imported as a gpx file did.
Amongst other things, I trained as a teacher of Outdoor Activities and I taught and practiced navigation with map and compass. The key part of it was making a route card with identifiable points and working out by hand the compass bearing, distance to walk, amount of climbing involved and tiem to get to the next point. Tedious yes, but it ensures that all of the hard work is done before you get into the hostile environment horizontal rain and sleet in thick fog on a remote hill top.
And being someone that practices what I preach, this stays with me. I plan everything beforehand for our tours. Including emergency escape routes. As we get older, we plan trips which are like a clover leaves. eg Tomorrow's ride is 120 miles from A to C going in a wide arc through point B. But if we are tired, we can miss out point B and just ride 20 miles to point C.
But - it is worth noting - It is worth creating a set of well chosen Waypoints - and by that I mean the Genuine
Waypoints that get transferred to the Zumo XT2 as Waypoints and all earlier Zumos as 'Favourites' - ie Saved locations that are not necessarily part of any route. I do not mean the
waypoint that is used by MRA, other software and almost every zumo user on Facebook forums - who think that the term means any placed point on a route; or that they are the same as Via Points. Waypoints are not part of a route at all, even thought hey can be used to form a part of a route - as either a Via or a Shaping Point.
So after I get off my hobby horse, I can tell you what you can do with a genuine
Waypoint
If you have waypoints saved and transferred with your gpx file to the Zumo XT2, then you can very quickly build a reasonable route on the XT2's Route Planner, and keep all of the Route points as Via Points / Stops. You can reorder them easily and they keep the given name, and do not change position. All you do is start a route, add a start, search icon, Waypoints, select, and move on and add the next 'Stop'. At any point you can save what you have and then come back to it. You just have to make sure that your Waypoints are not placed on one side of a dual carriageway.
If you haven't tried this, it is worth a go. IT could get you out of a sticky situation without a great deal of effort.
Don't even think about changing them to shaping points though - I could tell you what happens if you do but I'll leave that for another tirade. Routes created like this will behave properly, never get stuck in a RUT, even if you have to Skip one of the points. You can can do it without having to have synch set up when you installe the Tread App. ( I haven't actually checked out what it does if you do allow synching). I assume that it will change it if it is allowed to synch back from Explore to the XT2.
