How to import gpx routes into your Garmin Zumo XT (Using the Scenic app)

This is my preferred method of transferring my planned motorcycle routes, which I have prepared using the Scenic Navigation app on my iPhone .

Unless you use Garmin Base Camp planning software everyday and are familiar with it , I wouldn't bother with that software !

Get some planning software on your mobile device, in my case I subscribe to the Scenic Navigation App.Very easy to use and you can plan a days ride over a cup of tea at breakfast, its that simple to use.

But whatever your preferred navigation app is , I will show you the best way, that I know, to get your designed route onto the Garmin Zumo XT, without the Garmin software possibly doing something to I and corrupting the route.

So we will convert the track after import to the Zumo XT, to a trip. Literally takes 1 minute once you know how to do it.

[brycebathe]

Thank you soooo much for your clear instructions. Scenic is brilliant to use and I now love my Garmin XT again. Time to ride and not get lost !!

[NJMike]

In my experience, the Zumo having a ton of VIA points will usually result in it keeping to the route you wanted even in the case of a detour/recalculation. If you only have the Start and End point and somehow it recalculates, it will make a bee line to the end and totally ignore your hard work. I usually plot a bunch of intermediate via points, so it may skip one or two but pick back up somewhere along the line. This is how I crafted my routes in BaseCamp. I would create a route with a lot of waypoints and then convert the vast majority into shaping points, but leave real stops in there for places I really wanted to stop at. YMMV. Thanks for the video. I too love Scenic but have an XT for long trips so as not to have all eggs in one basket.

[CaptainChunk]

Hi ... GSD Thank you for the steer on getting gpx files across to the Garmin XT I'm exporting in the following steps

1) Export GPX files from Mappite to my Android Phone
2) Capture the files using the Garmin Explore App.
3) Send the files to the Garmin Drive App.
4) Sync Garmin Drive to the XT and follow you instructions regarding Tracks and Trips 👍all good stuff

Kind Regards CC

Excellent video!! This is an easy way to transfer routes to Garmin without connections and cables. Congratulations

[superflycatchermtb]

Great explanation and yet massively complicated IMO. Why does Garmin make things so difficult?

[copleysteve]

Hi, Great video, just got a new Zumo xt watched your video, good information as always, it worked first time no messing, thank you, keep up the good work and the video’s

[michaeldierks]

thanks for the excellent explanation - I see different behavior when exporting from Calimoto which I want to share- using the Calimoto export function requires saving the gpx file on the iPad/iphone, then in the next step share with Garmin Drive - on the Zumo XT it appears not in the track section, it appears in the routes... opening the Calimoto track in BaseCamp and export explicit as a track file and transfer via Garmin Drive then it appears on the Zumo XT in the track section... will investigate further and let you know my findings

[mtscott]

Thanks - that was helpful. Not sure it was simple!! :)

So you use the Zumo rather than the BMW GPS? How do you mount your Zumo XT on your GS?

[cogentdynamics]

Good video! 300 miles and an “early stop”. Sounds brutal to me😮😊

[Norwegannnja]

Nice vid, appreciate the fact you filmed it twice and spliced in footage showing the screen. thinking of getting a zumo myself.
Are you able to tell the GPS unit to skip a waypoint easy in the case of maybe a road being closed?

[stevenfarmwald]

I'll try this. Garmin always annoys me by changing my route. Thanks

[ThePorts]

What happened to all your waypoints ? Doesn’t it loose them all when turned it from track to route?

[paulhalsall]

Great vid. Newbie GS question here. Just looking at Sat nav. Is the Zumo XT fully compatible with the BMW cradle and Nav wheel? Is it actually the same as the BMW version?

[sunnycloudy]

I've done my trips with basecamp and my garmin bmw navigator 6 plugged in via USB.
Or directly from the navigator itself but it's a pain in the butt.

I don't think the phone app works with the navigator 6, but I want to try.... what's the garmin app called again?

[JaySalvoUK]

Good Morning Paul, Is there a way to place all your planned routes onto a memory card and then put that into the Zumo so it then reads them. I've tried reformatting, using Basecamp, dragging and dropping straight to card through a card reader but nothing appears to work? Thanks Jay

[ego]

Does the import but when go to tracks it shows empty. My gpx file is from a converter of a google map

[HubertMussack]

Hello from Tirol in Austria, i have a problem importing a GPX-File via Google-Drive to the ZUMO XT. I can not find the Track in the Tracks-Destiantion. My Track is imported to the tripplanning-tool. How can i change the import-destiantion? Thanks for help!

[maxflight]

The app you recommended is very expensive