Hello friends. Longtime Garmin user but new to Basecanp and this forum. I have Basecanp version 4.7.1 running under Windows 7 Professional.
My current GPS (Drivesmart 61) seems to have a limit of 1000 way points. I want to have many more than that, but won't need all of them at the same time. What I've been doing is a backup of my device to Basecamp (via Device>Receive from Device), then manually deleting some entries from the device to make space. I guess I have about 15 backups in Basecamp in the Library under 'My Collection'. Naturally, with this method, I have a lot of redundant data in these files.
What I want to do is create a List in the Library called 'Master List". Then highlight the way points from each of the backups and send them to Master List.
Question #1: If I do this, will it -by default- automatically append Master List only with the unique way point entries from each subsequent list? (it seems to do that)
Once Master List is populated with all of my way points, I'll create new geographic lists based on the counties where the way points are located. If that turns out to eventually exceed the 1000 way point limit, I could further break them down, but that shouldn't happen for a while. It seems I can highlight a section of the Master List map, then right click on any one of the highlighted entries in the lower box and then send those entries to the new list. So what Intend to do is to make a copy of Master List called Working List, export the selected entries from Working List into the appropriate county list, then delete those same entries from Working List. Eventually, I'll have a Master List full of entries, a couple dozen County lists with a subset of those entries, and a Working List with no entries. I'll probably have an 'Always' list with places I want permanently in the GPS (like Home) and the Always list will be co-located in every county list as well.
I plan to then use the 'Send to Device' feature to upload the counties list(s) to my device as I need them. I'll also build my routes in Basecamp; seems a lot easier than trying to do it on the device.
Question #2: Will using the 'Send to Device' cause Basecamp to overwrite what's in the device, or merely append to it?
Question #3: Is there an easier way to do this that I'm missing?
Question #4: How do I create a new way point in Basecamp based solely on street address, city and state?
Thanks in advance!