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I'm using Garmin Connect with the Open Street Map mapping to create a route. It's in Lithuania and much of the route is gravel roads, and some of them don't appear on Google Maps at all but are on OSM.
There are purple lines on some of the routes, similar to the purple lines you can see around the course in the image below. What are these? Known cycle routes? Popular routes on other courses? Any ideas? Google comes up with absolutely nothing.
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Thanks.
Don't use Garmin Connect - it's bloody terrible for route planning for anything other than road routes. Personally, I've been using http://www.plotaroute.com recently as it mixes some decent functionality, with OSM road routing which is much better for gravel and off-road trails. I can't speak for your country, but I'd give it a go and see.
(Once you have plotted your route, you can always import the GPX into Connect if you really want to do it that way anyway)
Normally I wouldn't but for some reason my GPS is having a shitfit and won't let you import GPXs or TCXs manually through the Newfiles folder, it only registers stuff synced from Connect.
I think I've figured it out, it looks like popularity routing.
Have you by any chance exceeded the maximum limit for the number of routes on your device...? IIRC, most Garmins only let you have 100. If you hit this limit, move a few out of the courses folder and you'll be up and running in no time.
Happened to me recently and the symptoms are what you described - it just doesn't accept GPX files from the newfiles folder!
No, there's only about 20 on there.
...it also includes any that are on external SD cards too. (this caught me out!)
As another option for you - if your Garmin is a reasonably recent one (i.e. supports IQ) then you can use these two apps:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/de11adc4-fdbb-40b5-86ac-7f93b47ea5bb
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.surfsite.gexporter
Simply install the IQ app on your Garmin and the matching export one on your Android device. Fire up the app on your Garmin, and the matching one on your phone and you can pull any GPX files down from your phone to your device. Really useful when you realise you've forgotten to load the route up and your stood in the car park, ready to go!