Basecamp Import Requirements

Hi folks.

Exported a route from an online map, received an XML file with the following structure, that Basecamp says is invalid:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<gpx version="1.1" creator="http://cycleroute.org web application">

<rte>
<name>PA14</name>
<rtept lat ="48.8734788" lon="2.4704008999999587"></rtept>
<rtept lat ="48.87114469999999" lon="2.470850700000028"></rtept>
<rtept lat ="48.8744131" lon="2.483006400000022"></rtept>
<rtept lat ="48.874569" lon="2.483826000000022"></rtept>
<rtept lat ="48.8771321" lon="2.4844087000000172"></rtept>
<rtept lat ="48.8838035" lon="2.531102400000009"></rtept>
...
</rte>
</gpx>

Anybody know where I can find requirements for importation, so that I can modify the file? This site (cycleroute.org) seems like a keeper.

Cheers

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

You might try an online xml validator.

Here is a link: http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/

0 beerich over 11 years ago

Hi there.

Document is well formed, but no declaration. Are there any posted requirements for importation into the application?

Cheers

BTW There's a BMW R in my future methinks

0 alandb over 11 years ago

Ok, here is what I did to get Basecamp to import your short route segment:

1) create a short temporary route in Basecamp and save it.
2) Export the temporary route as a .gpx file
3) open up the temporary .gpx file in Notepad and delete everything between the <rte> and </rte> tags.
4) Copy the contents of your route file between the <rte> and </rte> tags and paste it into the temporary gpx file.
5) Import the temporary file into basecamp.

This worked for me.

0 beerich over 11 years ago

Ah good show. I'm tired, should have just tried that.

Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers

0 beerich over 11 years ago

Update:

OK, so I exported some waypoints (POIs?) that I had in my Basecamp. Nothing close to the rte directive in the GPX file I was given. Confusing.

0 alandb over 11 years ago

To use the method I described, you would want to export a route (use the route tool to create), not a list of waypoints

0 beerich over 11 years ago

Why would I choose a route instead of waypoints? The exported file type is indeed a route, as well as the exported file from that site. But a route instead of waypoints doesn't make sense.

Upon importation, it created a route instead of waypoints.

0 alandb over 11 years ago

Sorry. Guess I don't understand what you are trying to do. I thought from your OP that you were trying to import the GPX route file from the other site into Basecamp. Since that file contains a route, I would expect Basecamp to import it as a route.

0 beerich over 11 years ago

You know what? I'm confused. I was trying to import a route. I had to go back in the thread to find out. So the DTDs were the issue. Garmin has to have those directives in order to parse through these relatively simple files. So that is now handled.

Now onto POIs. I'm going to test how to get a list of POIs into Basecamp. The current list is a CSV which isn't recognized by Basecamp.

Cheers