Export of Google Maps to Base Camp 4.5.2

When you selected Export to KML, did you Export 'Entire Map' to KMZ?

There's an issue in BaseCamp 4.5.x where KML or KMZ has tracks (LinearLine or LinearRing elements) with a coordinates node containing more than around 5000 points. This has been fixed for the upcoming release of BaseCamp. For now, you can use a 3rd party tool to convert the KML to GPX, then import the gpx into BaseCamp. Or you can break your route up into smaller segments in google maps, then export the KML.

How ones knows how many points a route has? I tried to export a point to point and a about 20 points routes.

Sorry, I don't know if there's a way to determine how many track points there are in a google route without first exporting to KML and importing into BaseCamp. In BaseCamp you can double click or 'Get Info' on a track to determine how many points it has...

Sorry, I don't know if there's a way to determine how many track points there are in a google route without first exporting to KML and importing into BaseCamp. In BaseCamp you can double click or 'Get Info' on a track to determine how many points it has...

Hi Wurth,
Is it possible to modify the number of points on the imported track before you make a route out of it? I was able to import using Safari as browser instead of Chrome.

Is it possible to "force" Basecamp to go thru a road. I have to change from RV activity on BC to car (and also on the RV760) in order to navigate thru roads that I have been using for over 10 years. It looks like the logic on the RV760 and the RV ACTIVITY actually uses the 18 Wheeler (760DZL) for road access and weight limitations. I have not been able to shape the route and keep it as is.

Hi Wurth,
Is it possible to modify the number of points on the imported track before you make a route out of it? I was able to import using Safari as browser instead of Chrome.
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You can split the track, delete points, or filter points from it. Double click the track or select 'Get Info' from the track's context menu (right-click). There's a little gear-shift icon in the bottom left corner where you'll find the options to delete selected points as well as filtering and splitting the track.

Hi Wurth,
Is it possible to "force" Basecamp to go thru a road. I have to change from RV activity on BC to car (and also on the RV760) in order to navigate thru roads that I have been using for over 10 years. It looks like the logic on the RV760 and the RV ACTIVITY actually uses the 18 Wheeler (760DZL) for road access and weight limitations. I have not been able to shape the route and keep it as is.

Sorry, I don't know off hand and I couldn't quickly find any roads that don't allow RV routing. Perhaps there are more experienced users that can help? Or I can experiment a little if you tell me which roads you're having an issue with?

Sorry, I don't know off hand and I couldn't quickly find any roads that don't allow RV routing. Perhaps there are more experienced users that can help? Or I can experiment a little if you tell me which roads you're having an issue with?

Here we go Wurth...

I am in Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area. Please try to route with a RV profile thru highway 152 off Highway 101. Start on 101 South, exit on Tennant Ave, Morgan Hill, turn left on Monterrey St., turn right on Watsonville Rd. Turn Right on 152 (Hecker Pass HWY) and go all the way to the entrance of the Mt. Madonna County Park at Pole Line Road. I have done this road with my RV more than 50 times in the last 10 years. Hwy 152 has a limitation of 45ft. If you use the RV profile, Base Camp will not allow you, no matter what, to go the last 5 or 6 miles before the entrance of the park. It will send you around the world so that you can approach Pole Line from the other side of 152. The only way to navigate this road is using a car profile. Once you import this route into the RV760, it will reroute everything unless I use the car profile.

Hwy 85 (north of Morgan Hill) has a limitation of 4.5 Tons for Commercial Trucks. There is no limitation for RVs or Buses. My RV is 13.5 Tons. If I use the right weight on the RV profile on the RV760, it will route me around all freeways, Hwys and bridges that have Commercial trucks limitations. The logic on the RV760 is the same as the 760DZL and it thinks the RV is a 18 Wheeler and therefore can't use the roads with limitation. I have to lower the weight to 4.3 Tons so that it will allow me to actually travel on most roads. However, there are places in which the limitation is real for ALL vehicles above certain weight and I am trying to pay attention to the advisory placards so that I do not get in trouble.

The logic in BaseCamp, even though you create the profile similar to the RV760, does not route the same way as the RV760. Someone needs to really gets deep and highlight all the differences so that users can adjust for this issues. Similarly, we need a recipe to STOP the RV760 to recalculate what has been done on Base Camp. Otherwise, as I said before, why use Base Camp. If creating a route on the RV760 would be easy....

At the moment, I am using Google Maps to explore all possibilities, then I go into RV forums and validate assumptions with locals or people that have travelled the roads in question. Then I change the profile for both BaseCamp and RV760 to car and create the route accordingly. I did this before Thanks Giving weekend as I was going to a new place in Santa Paula, Southern California. My route was set up for 101 all the way South with Shape Points. Imported the route into the RV760 as a Trip. Once I started navigating the Trip (using car profile), the RV760 change the route to use HWY 5 South (Truck preferred Route) off 101 using HWY 152 East that is the connector between the 2 HWYs . At least I know this part and simply kept going on 101 and then the RV760 recalculated as the difference is just 4 miles shorter on 101. Very unreliable if you do not know the place where you are navigating!!!!