carpetrunner
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I must be missing something really simple here - I don't believe it could be that hard.
I have a small-ish GPS (edge 530) that is OK as a display of directions on the bars while riding - but far too small to do tour planning and routing.
I can do that with a laptop using basecamp - but that doesn't sound light or power efficient for bikepacking/touring.
Why can't I use an iPad? (or an iPad-mini?) - this has been asked many times on lots of other forums.
Garmin Basecamp, which isn't a great app, doesn't run under iOS, only macOS and windoze.
Komoot smells like it should do it, there is a PC app, an iPad app and a Garmin app...
but I can only see the <download to garmin device> button on the PC app
and I think that only works when the device is connected by cable using garmin express.
I haven't tried connecting the garmin to the iPad with a cable - my experience getting an iPad to talk to anything is not great.
Garmin looks like it will only bluetooth to one device at a time so even if there was a <download to garmin device> on the iPad there would be no way through.
There must be something obvious I'm missing here.
-Carpetrunner
I have a small-ish GPS (edge 530) that is OK as a display of directions on the bars while riding - but far too small to do tour planning and routing.
I can do that with a laptop using basecamp - but that doesn't sound light or power efficient for bikepacking/touring.
Why can't I use an iPad? (or an iPad-mini?) - this has been asked many times on lots of other forums.
Garmin Basecamp, which isn't a great app, doesn't run under iOS, only macOS and windoze.
Komoot smells like it should do it, there is a PC app, an iPad app and a Garmin app...
but I can only see the <download to garmin device> button on the PC app
and I think that only works when the device is connected by cable using garmin express.
I haven't tried connecting the garmin to the iPad with a cable - my experience getting an iPad to talk to anything is not great.
Garmin looks like it will only bluetooth to one device at a time so even if there was a <download to garmin device> on the iPad there would be no way through.
There must be something obvious I'm missing here.
-Carpetrunner