Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com>:
> On 19/08/2019 17:21, Peter Elderson wrote: > > the only way for the likes of me is to use detection tools and > maintenance tools to order data by hand at the mapping level, so ordinary > people can use waymarkedtrails to get usable linear gpx-s for their > basecamps, route editors, trip planners, navigation apps and devices. > > You keep perpetrating this myth - you're suggesting again that ways in > routes need to be sorted before they can be used in Garmin software and > navigation devices. It simply isn't true. For about 11 years now I've > been creating Garmin maps based on OSM data, and I've been walking along > local and national trails in the UK for far longer. Never have I needed to > "follow a GPX" - it seems a very alien thing to want to do, and (as > mentioned previously) isn't actually supported by any of the various Garmin > hiking GPSs that I've used. If you want to do that - fine - but not > everyone does. > Ok, I accept I just don't know how it's done. So how is that done? How do I tell my Garmin to guide me along, say, the Limes trail through the Netherlands? It's mapped in OSM as a series of sections, each relation encompassing one days walking, and all the sections are in a parent route, which in turn is part of the international Limes trail.
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