Re: [Gpsbabel-code] Patch: Heartrate/cadence write support for GPX

[Martin B. <mb-...@gr...>]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:31:20PM -0800, don taber wrote:
> You are making this harder than it is.  You do not need to upload a
> "course".  Courses are high data-content things that the Garmin
> devices generate for you to download and analyze ad naseum.  There
> is no reason to put one back onto the device.
> [...]
> successfully sent a 50 point route to an Edge 305, and that it is 
> available for navigation.  I don't know *for sure* but I'd be very surprised
> if this procedure did not also work for the Forerunner.

Sure this works, but as you noticed, routes are limited to 100 waypoints.
For me, this is completely useless, because the tracks I usually use for
navigation have far more than 100 points each, and I'd like to have several
of them on the Forerunner. So I need to upload them as courses to be able
to use them. And doing so is definitely possible - I tested this by using
Gpsbabel to convert them to Garmin Training Center format and uploaded this
with the Garmin software.

Martin