![]() ![]() If I send this route to someone I don’t want them coming to my home to start and end their journey.Īfter you clean up the track you can use Basecamp to convert it into a route with just one click. I edited the track and moved the start and end points to a junction on the Bambolim bypass. For example, the track for today’s ride through the Anshi National Park in Karnataka started and ended at my home in Porvorim. ![]() So a route usually yields a track, and not the other way around.īut if you are wandering around aimlessly or doing a recce for a future ride, then the ability of converting a track to a route comes in handy.īasecamp comes with track editing tools which let you trim or delete parts of a track where you took a wrong turn or got lost and had to turn back. After your journey ends the GPS saves a track of where you had been. Under normal circumstances you create a route in Basecamp, save it to your GPS and then navigate using the route. A route is a plan of where you want to go. ![]() A track is a record of where you have been. GPX file.One of the nice features of Garmin’s Basecamp software is the the ability to convert a track into a route. Now I can do all the customizing within Google Maps which is quite easy by just dragging the track onto a specific route then creating the appropriate. The whole process was a bit cumbersome anyway by always having to drill in enlarging the Trip Planner map to find a specific road I wanted to travel on only to get that annoying error message when I touched it. But more often I would touch a road on the map and get a message like "Invalid Location" which is clearly not correct. Sometimes I would have no problem touching the screen over a specific road on the map and adding it as an intermediate point to shape my trip. I am very happy I can finally do this as I was having trouble trying to create a custom route directly using the shaping option with Trip Planner itself. When I examine the resulting Trip I notice that the route is composed of the same number of Lat/Long waypoints created in the BaseCamp route and the Step-by-Step instructions faithfully follows the original tailored Google Maps route. GPX file with the "Maps to GPX" tool, import the file into BaseCamp, examine the resulting Track file, edit it if necessary, create a "Route" from the Track that I can then send to my DriveSmart 61 which is automatically downloaded into my Trip Planner trips. I am now able to successfully create a tailored map within Google Maps, create a. Thanks for the clarification about Tracks and Routes made up as a collection of Lat/Long waypoints in BaseCamp. Take a look at the Routes and Track links in my post #2 above, it is all explained on that page, if the Route is generated in Basecamp rather than being imported into Basecamp then the program can pick up names from it's map and attach them to waypounts, see link below :. With a Route you get from one waypoint to the next by following a road, path or other map feature NOT a straight line, so with a Route you could have just two waypoints a hundred miles apart and the satnav will calculate all the twist and turns for you, with a Track you would need many waypoints to show every change of direction. Basecamp produces Routes and Tracks, they are not the same thing, both Routes and Tracks are made up from Lat/Long waypoints BUT there are differencies in how you move from one waypoint to the other, with a Track the jump from one waypoint go the next is always a straight line so if you want a curve you need lots of waypoints close together. ![]()
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