The course illustrated is from Philip’s Cycle Tours Yorkshire Dales by Nick Cotton: ‘From Skipton to Ilkley Moor and Bolton Abbey’ listed as 26 miles but BaseCamp reckons about 27.5. gpx opened in Garmin BaseCamp for transfer to GPS In Mapsource you right-click the course (via the menu) to view its properties, in BaseCamp you double-click the footprint symbol. gpx file that was saved from GPSies needs File / Import into ‘My Collection’ to open the file. BaseCamp doesn’t do File / Open as just about every other program does. Garmin BaseCamp replaces Garmin MapSource. Planned course in Google Earth – save as.
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Rather than install another unknown (possibly dodgy) program I am now using the GPSies file conversion facility online. Garmin MapSource doesn’t seem to like the computer either (I’ve used MapSource for years as well).
I’m not saying it’s a bad program (I’ve used it for several years) but it doesn’t seem to like my newish Windows 8 PC, probably something to do with Java (what’s Java anyway?). That’s where RouteConverter comes in, or it did. The only thing – Google Earth doesn’t produce. I still use Google Earth to plan the trips, which takes a little longer than something like GPSies but I think it’s better – you see things on the ground and that is a big advantage. Things move on but they don’t necessarily get any simpler. kmz file into a Garmin BaseCamp file I can then transfer to my Garmin GPS unit. Things have a habit of moving on, and that includes converting a Google Earth. A slight update to Creating a GPS cycle route on Google Earth.