Mapsource track to route conversion.

[TheRedOnesAreFaster]

I swear to God there was a way to convert my downloaded track data and convert it directly to a route in Mapsource.  

Anyone know if I've lost my mind?  Can this be simply done?

I have a Garmin 2610.

[Rambler]

Not sure, but one of these might work:

http://www.geobuddy.com
http://www.gpsu.co.uk/descrip.html
http://rjdavies.users.btopenworld.com/html/poiconverter.html
http://www.poiedit.com/index.htm

And remember, Google's your friend!  

[TheRedOnesAreFaster]

Thanks, but I was looking for something internal to Garmin's Mapsource software.  

I thought I had converted a track to a route in their software, but I may be remembering doing that with my old Magellan Meridian unit.

[RBEmerson]

It ain't your imagination, things really are that bad.   You need to massage the track into a route using something other than just MapSource and the 2610.  Try this link from AdvRider and this link from GPSBabel.  

[TheRedOnesAreFaster]

It ain't your imagination, things really are that bad.   You need to massage the track into a route using something other than just MapSource and the 2610.  Try this link from AdvRider and this link from GPSBabel.  

Thanks RB.  I had half a mind to just PM you the question since you are the local GPS guru.

Must have been my Magellan that did it.  Or maybe I'm remembering stuff that never happened.

[RBEmerson]

Or... something you (and a lot of other folks) wish would happen.   The problem is I have a fuzzy recollection of seeing this trick done somewhere.  But it may be my marine gear's ability to do this (for sure) that's confusing me.  

[DavidLSI]

The routes in Mapsource need waypoints....

You will need to follow your track and click in/create waypoitns and then make the route from those.

I beleive you are correct that the Magelian will make the coversion for you, I have not used my in quite a while.

SeeYa
DavidLSI

[RBEmerson]

Well, yeah, you can put down waypoints along a track to recreate the route but it's a less than elegant solution.  There should be a "Click here to convert track to route" button.  But, for MapSource... no joy.  Feh.