Luckily, the new fēnix 3 still supports the same basic process, which allows you to easily upload any GPX file to the watch. On my old Garmin Edge 800 importing files was a manual but open affair, before Garmin closed it down. The example GPX file with waypoints shown on the watch display here is just one example for the kind of data use that these devices can do, and should be able to do, even outside of vendor-specific walled gardens. Also, on more and more sites well-meaning people post GPX files for whatever geographical activities they are describing, and being able to import these so that they display on wearable devices and can be used for navigation is very useful. Something that is much more practical and useful such as Strava's Route builder thus cannot be used, at least not by staying strictly within Garmin's closed world. One way to get courses (how Garmin calls them) onto the device is via Garmin Connect, but the general limitations of that service are well-known, you can only use courses created in Connect, and the Course builder has no import feature.
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This blog post describes how to get GPX files onto your Garmin fēnix 3, and hopefully it works for other devices as well. The other direction can be equally tricky, by which I mean how to get tracks and waypoints onto the device to use for display and navigation. One problem described recently is how to get useful track and waypoint information out of Garmin's rather closed world.
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