OK, follow me on this. I go on a hike. I save on my Oregon 450. I get home and transfer to IMac. So now I want to export that track/tracks to to a file on the computer. So I export to a file (.GPX) Now I right click to open it and it opens in text edit but it is in code. I have tried to export to documents and open it and tried to open it in just about every way I can think of. I would like a hard copy of this hike. I can print the map with tracks on it right off BaseCamp but would like to print the data from it and the only way I can see to do this is to save it to the computer and than print it. With out everybody getting too technical on me, could someone walk me through this?
If you are trying to open the saved file in Basecamp, you need to use the Import command.
File > import.
Basecamp does not open gpx files if you double click on them.
GPX files are code, The application that opens them interprets that code and displays it on a map.
Still am not sure what you want to do with that file.
Once it is saved as a GPX file you can delete that same information from BaseCamp. Then if you want to use it later, just reimport it.
You mention that you want to print the data?
What format do you want that data in?
If you double click on the Track in the left pane of BaseCamp that opens the Track properties. You can print that data from inside BaseCamp.
There are some tabs in there each contains different types of data.
We are not connecting here. I already have the saved file (imported) from my garmin in BaseCamp. I can click on files in my collection and open them. What I see is nice map of my hike with tracks. If I double click on that file (in basecamp) it brings up a detailed list of every move I made on that hike. I just want to know how to no.1 print it and 2. can I save it to, say, documents or someplace on my computer. I say again, if I open the save track on BaseCamp it will open the map of the hike. Than I double click on that track(in the left pane) and it opens a detailed list of everything I did on that hike. MPH, distance, average speed, and so on. If I try to print, it will only print the map. You say import it. Its already in my basecamp. I just want to know how to get all that info out of BaseCamp to, lets say a documents folder so I can open it or print it. Wouldn't you export it to a folder out of BaseCamp? And if I'm not seeing something than walk me through this.
It is nothing but plain Text, that is why it opens in TextEdit.
The data in the gpx file is the definitions of the track points, waypoints, and route points that make up whatever it is.
Other programs Like RoadTrip, BaseCamp, RouteBuddy read that code and interpret it and display it on a map so that humans can view it in a way that makes sense to them.
After reading 3 times I think DAVEMAGUIRE just wants to print the information in a track window. I don't believe the current version of BaseCamp supports printing of the track window. You can select the information and the copy function is not grayed out but I can not paste into a word procession or text application. It copying clears the clipboard when you copy form the track window.
Probable not what you want but shift command 4 will take a screen shot of the data visible on the screen.
Dennyhenderson and PSEABOLT are both right. Denny you are right on as to what I have trying to say. If you look back at my last thread, I think that is what I have been trying to say. I said that I could print the maps but not the data (list, detail, distance, speed, and so on like you sent me). So it looks like I can't just print the data right off basecamp. I wanted this info out of my basecamp and keep it in folders or whatever documents like you said for future use and than clean out my collection. So once it is exported out I can't open it without sending it back to basecamp. Make a long story short. I wanted it out of BaseCamp and be able to open the list and read it and print it.
I also wanted to do what Dave was asking (that's how I found this thread). As Denny's picture shows, gpx files are actually XML files. These types of files can be opened in XML Editors, Notepad, and most spreadsheet programs - like Excel. When I opened my track files with Excel, I was able to get a "reasonable" list of all of the track points. Note that the XML tag "ele" - i.e. elevation - represents meters (1 meter = 3.2808399 feet). The Track properties rounds the calculation to the nearest foot. Example, I had one elevation point listed in the XML file as 149.62 (meters) which showed up in the Track Properties display as 491 feet. The actual conversion calculation yields 490.879265838.
Downside: the XML file contains only minimal raw data. If you want the "leg length" (i.e. distance travelled), you have to create your own formula (readily available if you do a google search). Similarly, for bearing and time.
As of BaseCamp 3.1, you can also export the data in comma (CSV) or tab-delimited format as well, which is even easier to open in spreadsheets or to read in a text editor. As Brian.Davies says, all the data is in metric.
