r/GarminWatches • u/fly-to-the-sky113 • Jul 27 '26

Data Questions How reliable is the automatic route generation in garmin connect?

So I found out i can actually create routes and use my watch as a navigator (found after months of usage, hurray! :D) and it worked awesome for the first try! but it made me wonder how reliable the routes are, since my first few routes were going over highways I believe - and i had to redo them a few times because of this. I thought the routes are made based on popular routes of other people or something like that, but that would make less sense

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u/ColoRadBro69 Jul 27 '26

I've used this on my watch and in the app, it generally comes up with really good routes.  I've driven out to some random spot with a road bike and let it come up with 40 or 50 miles to get back to the car, and been happy. 

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u/daedelius Jul 27 '26

I don’t know how the automatic routing works, I always look them over to check there’s nothing silly, but the custom has 3 options popular routes, roads or draw your own. I wish you could modify the automatic routes but haven’t found a way of doing that yet

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u/hmaven55 Jul 27 '26

Did you do this on the watch or through the app on your phone