Navigating with a Zumo - Useful Info - Booklet to Download

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I have attached a document that I wrote last year for a presentation that I gave for a motorcycle tour company. I had it professionally printed so that they all had something to go home with. Not specifically about the XT, but all applicable to it.

I thought that it was about time that it saw the light of day on this forum.

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The- attached files are the same - except - v1-2 has two pages side by side. For a wide screen.
v1-1 has single pages - best for viewing on an ipad in portrait mode.
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Some Videos elsewhere on this site which relate to the use of the Zumo XT1

Links are to the post in which these appear.
  1. Flying a Track in Google Earth : Video and How to pdf file.
  2. Missing a Shaping Point ? : Two videos showing different behaviour when going off route. a) With a 'Saved' Route, b) With an 'Imported' route.
  3. Mising a Via Point ? : Two videos showing different behaviour when ignoring a Via Point a) With a 'Saved' Route, b) With an 'Imported' route.
  4. Fixing the RUT Issue : One way to Make your 'Imported' route behave like a 'Saved' route.
  5. Set Up Garmin Drive : How to set up your phone and XT with Garmin Drive (and Explore if you wish).
As an explanation of Saved versus Imported, jfheath wrote: The Zumo XT separated its routes into two categories: In the Trip Planner App routes are listed under two headings - 'Saved Trips' and 'Imported Trips'. Saved trips were those originally created using the XT1 Trip Planner App. Imported trips tended to be the ones created using route planning software and sent to the XT as a Gpx file and then inported. The two kinds of routes behaved differently in my tests - particularly if the XT has recalculated the route - eg after pressing Skip. Saved Trips seemed to be reliable in calculating a new route to the next routing point if you had to stray from the plotted line. Imported trips seem to head for the closest point of the route if you deviate - and if that is behind you, you seem to end up always being directed back the way that you came. Even if the next routing points is just a couple of miles in the direction that you are heading. Getting the XT to treat an 'Imported' trip as a 'Saved' trip seems to have the effect of altering the behaviour when you are forced to deviate from the plotted route.
Have owned Zumo 550, 660 == Now have Zumo XT2, XT, 595, 590, Headache
Use Basecamp (mainly), MyRouteApp (sometimes), Competent with Tread for XT2, Can use Explore for XT - but it offers nothing that I want !

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What a good Job
Well done that Man
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Post by FrankB »

Brings back a lot of memories John. Especially why I do the things the way I do them with the XT. Nice to have the final version in PDF.
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Post by Rofor »

Many thanks for that, John!
Bye, Robert :)
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Post by Mzokk »

Brilliant John you certainly put a lot of work into this. Much appreciated.
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Thank you.
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Many thanks - as usual brilliant information on your part
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Post by finerone »

Thank you, that was very helpful.