Garmin 276cx and Montana 700i routing comparison

Can the Montana 700 use shaping points, like the 276cx does?

[gnarlybadger]

I understand the limitations if you’re using the unit as direction navigation (turn by turn) it always want to use real roads that is built into the software dynamics in what mapping you are using (City Navigator) for instance but if you import as a track which is a line overlaid on the map which you follow and determine the direction for yourself you can use the much more detailed topographic maps for your countries so you can use dirt tracks or unsurfaced routes. A nicely put together video showing the difference between the units. Thanks for sharing

[owenwilliams]

Excellent video, totally agree, Garmin missing a trick with these shaping points, especially with the 700 unit at 700 euro . Sweden TET is on my list.

[clivegreenall]

Good day.
I just came across your channel and have subscribed.
Thanks for sharing.
I found the discussion between yourself and another viewer to be very informative.
Regards from S Africa

[DENMONKEY]

guessing its because the 276 is a marine unit and there are no corners etc to identify on the water, so it needs to be more granular in its tracking than compare to a land based gps unit.

[manuelfvdias]

Thanks for this useful and pratical review. Its the only important approach.

[diAx]

The problem is not really a problem. No one is stopping you from creating two routes one after the other. Or ten, each with 50 points

[theestate]

Routing in Garmin is frustrating and should be fixed. Trouble is that both of Gamin's engineers as busy with watches

[Mogulkahn]

Hi, if I understood correctly, you wanted turn by turn navigation on via those shaping points on the Montana, which was not possible due to the limit of 50 points. However, if you choose direct routing on the Montana, you’ll be able to navigate more than 50 points, but you’ll be restricted to a direct route between each point. I am thinking if you had the route details planned, this shouldn’t be a problem ? Unless there are sections of the route that require turn by turn example in a town or village.

[grayl]

Very useful comparison. I’ll stick with the 276cx. Pity it doesn’t have a touch screen when typing, still frustrating but a huge leap over the old 276.

[uloe]

as far as I understood from my Montana 700, you can import the track from Basecamp and then convert it into a "Strecke" (sorry... I don't know the correct menu-point in English-version). I think then it calculates the track as given and builds all the necessary shaping points. If I'm right, this would be a solution for the described problem. Until now, I could not verify but maybe someone else tested these steps?

[Lowdownblues]

Hi. Which one of these 2 would you think is better for off road motorcycling ? Thank you

[learnyee]

hi bro, just to check, does the 276CX supports the automotive mode in map. the 700 can show the map with track up, north up or automotive mode. Just to confirm that

[chrisssinstockholm]

The Kurviger App has a limit of 200 points.
Impossible to get navigation for the TET as it is to long and complex for only 200 points.
However, it is possible to import the gpx as a track and manually follow the track showed on the screen. Annoying.
If the track is known and corect I can't understand why it not possible to make a route. Why limit the number of points?
It does not make sense.

[tolgacool]

Södertour 😂 sehr cool 👌

Do you know by any chance how the Zumo XT handles shaping points? And if it has the 50 point limit too?

[nv]

Hi. I have 250 tracks. Almost 4000 waypoints stored on GPSMAP 276cx. How can you view it faster? Is it possible? TIA

[vanzpaolo]

Why didn’t you navigate the track?
Convert the route in a track, open the track in both devices and navigate them.

[ConiKost]

Since I now own the 276Cx and 750i, I can say, that you are doing something wrong! My 750i loads all routes as my 276Cx does and doesn't recalculate them during import. So import takes max. 1 second. All imported routes are identical on both devices here. So I can saftly say, the 750i does support RPE data. The only point is, you need to make sure, you use the same map as on your device in Basecamp. If not, you get the problems in your video with the Montana.