That's nice to know, does it eliminate the constant trying to take you there when save, Have to delete any route on mine or it keeps trying to take you there, not like a car, or hand held where you can stop

 

Open menu box on active route. First choice (I believe) will be STOP, select and route guidance will stop. Alternatively, if using a headset enter the voice command "STOP GUIDANCE" and the route will be removed from your screen.

 

Thanks for the encouragement! I was able to get the contacts from my Zumo imported last night. It took a couple of hours though.

First the issues:

The Zumo allowed apostrophe's (') in a name. Like "Tom's Place". The gpx file uses ' as the key word in the gpx file to represent the apostrophe. When importing the infotainment gets hung at that point and I get a time out kind of error. I am not sure if you can have them in the actual name or not, but they for sure break the import action! BTW: The error does not tell you anything about why or what favorite had the problem. I had to try loading a few one at a time until I figured out which ones were causing multi-select to fail to import.

Once an import error happens, the only way to get a successful load is to turn the ignition off and start over. You have to turn the ignition off long enough for the "accept" button to come up. If you don't wait long enough in the off position, the radio does not actually reboot. Another symptom of this is if you try to look at the saved locations, the list is blank. They are there, but it can't read the database to load them.

I have 4 favorites that did not have the "description" field filled out correctly in the Current.gpx file and now have 4 saved locations in the infotainment that show up, but when I press on them nothing happens. That means I can't edit nor delete them. They are just taking up dead space now.

What works:

You can load a lot of favorites from the export file on a Zumo. If there is a limit, it is more than 50. I did not try and load every single one since many are oboslete and this was a good time to do a clean up.

I should mention that before this, I was using the phone book over blue tooth for addresses. This is something to keep in mind. I have the rare addresses in that source so if/when I ever want to go to a place I can tell the infotainment to use my phone's address book. To save that in the GPS saved places list, use the instructions the original poster gave.

What I did:

I exported one of my old routes from Ride Planner to see what details it was exporting. I then created a .gpx file with 15 of the locations I wanted to have. I put it on a USB and tried to import it. Worked the first time! This was proof that you could do more than 9 at a time. (Yes you need to know how to read and write in xml code to do this.)

I then copied the Current.gpx file from my Zumo. I found that if I avoided any favorites with apostrophies in them that they would import just fine. I did end up getting the 4 saved locations that don't work and I can't get rid of now because I didn't know it would import them wrong. If you don't mind that, you can just not pick the one's with apostrophies and you can load everything else and be done importing.

How to edit the Current.gpx file from the Zumo so the Infotainment will import it:

I looked at the xml code in the Current.gpx file and compared it to the code in the exported HD Route Planner route. These are the minimum fields required for successful import. I am not sure about <sym>, because every favorite had one and I didn't try to remove it and see if it failed to load or not.

<wpt lat="44.000000" lon="-89.000000">
<name>Toms Place</name>
<desc>111 First Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53000</desc>
<sym>Waypoint</sym>
</wpt>

Those fields are the absolute minimum for a successful load.

Wpt is the exact location.

Name is the common name that will be listed.

Desc is the address by default, but can be any text you would like it to be.

Sym is the symbol on the GPS. I don't know what all is available, but the value Waypoint always works. I have one that imported as Restaurant, but forgot to look and see if there is a different symbol for it or not.

The /wpt closes that location/favorite/saved place.

You can have carriage returns in the .gpx file if it helps you to read it better.

There are <extentions> in the Zumo Current.gpx file. You can leave them in or delete them. Again, I did not review closely to see if they imported or not. They would be the address and phone number fields if you scroll down after selecting a saved place and look at the details. The Ride Planner also adds extensions, but they only appear to be an http address and how to display the waypoint.

The ride planner version will also have a <cmt>...</cmt> that looks to be the same as the <desc>...</desc> section. You can leave it or delete it. It is not needed that I can tell. It worked both ways for me. With and without it.

Don't use Word or an editor like that. Use Notepad or Gedit. Be sure it is a simple editor that won't embed any special code in the file. If you use word, the infotainment will not recognize the data in the file. Save it to a new name so you don't loose your original file!

During the edit remove all apostrophes, the &apos; text strings, and make sure every waypoint <wpt> has a description <desc> field.

You might want to remove the "home" favorite so you don't end up with 2 on the infotainment. I also deleted the 3 Garmin locations that come with the Zumo. I deleted quite a few others that I no longer go to, or that are for people who have moved.

Copy the file to a USB device you know works on the infotainment. Plug it in before turning the ignition on. Go to Navigation once the infotainment is booted up.

While in the GPS/Navigation main page, select Menu at the top right. Then Import. Then USB. Then select the file name. All of the waypoints, including those in routes, will show up if you are using the Current.gpx file. You may not want all of those waypoints saved, so keep this in mind if you select Select All. You can then select the waypoints you want to add individually by clicking on them. When you have the ones you want to import selected, add them by clicking the middle of the up and down buttons on the right. Another question will come up asking if you want to add them. Answer yes and it will pop up a screen about adding them. It is quite fast, so if you have the adding message screen for a long time, there is something wrong like a waypoint with an apostrophe in it.

If you import a favorite that is already a saved location by the same name, it won't say anything and will create another saved location with _1 after it. If you add a 3rd one, you will have another with _2 after it.

So there you have it. How to import a Zumo Current.gpx file.

My last issue is that the GPS now seems to take longer to start up than before. Maybe 45-60 seconds instead of faster than I can get to the navigation screen after starting the bike up. I figure it has a bigger "database" of information to load now.


For those who want to know more about the xml code ...

The file will be one long string with no line seperators. What I like to do is find </???> and put a linefeed/carriage return after it. That seperates each individual item in the file.

The Current.gpx file has 5 sections.

First is a comment <? is the comment marker.

Then a header which starts with <gpx. That is actually the whole code wrapper since you will see the </gpx> as the very last line. The stuff after <gpx and before the next > character are things you can ignore.

Then there is a <metadata> tag and some stuff. You can ignore that up to the </metadata> tag.

Next are the favorites or waypoints. Each is marked inside of a <wpt...> and </wpt> marker set. There are as many of these as there are favorites in your Zumo.

The next section is the routes. They are marked inside of <rte> and </rte> with each waypoint on the route included inside. You will see <wpt...> </wpt> entries betwen the <rte> tags. These are the waypoints you have on the routes for turns and also include the starting points and destinations. There may even be <name> and or <desc> fields. These are not the favorites. This whole section can be removed since it likely has more than 9 waypoints per route. But, you may also have some actual waypoints you want to select one at a time too. I deleted this part to make my list be the favorites only. If you have routes with less than 9 waypoints, you could import them from this file I assume. I have not been successful yet doing that.

The last section is the Track. The Zumo kept track of everywhere you went! I like to clean this up often just so the evidence isn't there! This section starts with <trk> and ends with </trk> I would just remove it. The file is kind of large, and this is most of the file size.

Of course, the very last thing in the file is the </gpx> which closes the xml code. You should have found the </trk> right before it if you want to find it fast to remove the thousands of lines for the track. Don't remove the </gpx> tag!

Good luck if you choose to try and edit the file yourself.

 

I tried this procedure ver batium several times and it still did not save the address. What do I do now???

 

I tried several times also with no luck. Finally after I saved it I pushed go like I was headed there now. When it started I stopped it and then went to the saved section and it was there.

 

Old thread, but very helpful as I was planning a couple destinations yesterday.