Routing

Former Member over 14 years ago

Hi Carmin I have a problem with the routing in BaseCamp. I try to create rout on my TransAlpin Map but sometimes I come to points on the map where basecamp is not able to follow the street anymore. He stops in the middle of the way and starts searching for a way around it in most cases it is a way around from 100km :(. I tried so solve this with direct routing but then I have the Problem with joining my tracks with Auto Routing and the tracks with direct routes. This always ends up in everything direct routes. I have the same problem in places where a trail stops 5mm before the next one.
Is there a trick or workaround for this?
Thx Michael

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

@PBRIGNER5150

Ken's spot on, that's exactly how basecamp works at the moment, and indeed exactly how my nuvi 1490 works if I select points that are not part of the 'routeable' map. If you think about it that really is the only way it could work. Any GPS device and Basecamp don't 'see' a map like we do, so you can't expect them to do anything different. Incidentally I've looked at your files and without knowing which map you're using and how your profiles are set up it's impossible to comment on the points you make, but from what I can see it seems perfectly normal.

The hope is that one day BC will enable you to link both direct and other routes, so you can make adjustments for any map issues. Even that though won't help in all situations since if you then send the route to your GPS many will then recalulate based on how they have been programmed to work. The routing issues are not as trivial as some think :)

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Your description is exactly what I was talkingabout. I just didnt write a comprehensive manual. Clearly if you are far enough from a ro ad section with routing data in the map Basecamp. will ignore it and continue with direct routing between your track points. Get a track point too close to a road section that contains routing data and Basecamp tries to drag you over there. I just don't know what proximity to routing data will cause the behaviour.

If you have specifically selected Direct as the method of routing you want, this is clearly bad behaviour. But it is absolutely consistent and predictable if it is in fact ignoring your selection of Direct.

...ken...