Cannot import gpx files

GPX files do not contain maps. This is at least how we look at it.

That's why I am moving this thread from the "Installing Maps" forum to the BaseCamp forum.

You are trying to do the right thing if you are using BaseCamp to transfer data from GPX files to your 62.

Most likely the GPX files you are trying to import into BaseCamp are faulty and cannot be read by our apps (or our units apparently).

You could try attaching an example GPX file and hopefully someone will point out what is wrong with them.

Alternatively, you could try using GPSBabel (http://www.gpsbabel.org/) to fix the GPX files. Choose GPX as both input and output format and see if GPSBabel can handle it.

yep i already used GPSbabel to do that and it seems to handle fine. I cant attach the file is 5mb :-)

here it is the file:

http://www.mediafire.com/?d4kqc9dq9zm3udj

Thank you

My largest Track file (.gpx) is 179kb for a trail which is 110miles long. Your file is 5.6mb! I have no idea what a "shapefile" is, but .gpx files are "normally" used for Tracks.

When I open your file in EasyGPS, it shows up as a Route, not a Track. It also contains lots of Waypoints, but they are all at N45.00000, E060.00000.

The Route data shows numerous points with 0 distance and numerous waypoints within that segment.

Very Strange.
I am not an expert on .gpx files, and certainly not Routes, but as an example:
one of my .gpx Track files has this format:
<trkpt lat="34.183897096663713" lon="-114.22572297044098"/>

Your file has this:
<rtept lat="449965.051" lon="217273.328">

It looks to me--your Lat & Long are not formatted correctly.

Sorry I can't help much more than that with this file.

Try to download a .gpx file from MapMyRide as an example and Import it to BC or MS and then Send to your 62s. Does it look ok?

Ron

If you really want to use the shapefile as a map, you have to create a map from it. You can't just arbitrarily dump it into a GPX file and hope for the best.

Mapsource and Basecamp expect map files to be in *.IMG format so even if you have managed to get the shapefile info into a legitimate GPX format, neither program will use that info to display a map. Both programs expect things like tracks and routes and waypoints in GPX files but not maps.

I'm pretty sure you need to run either the original shapefile, or possibly the GPX file you have created, through a utility(ies) that will produce a proper Garmin-compatible *.IMG map file.

...ken...

There's a program called DNRGarmin that converts shapefiles to .gpx files (never used it), so I'm guessing this is an example of something similar. But .gpx files are going to be a bit kludgy for use as maps. I saw a program that somebody wrote to actually build maps from .gpx files. It was kind of cool actually but I don't know where I saw this... maybe in one of the other forums here?

Shapefiles are vector data that can be in the form of either polygons, polylines or points. But each shapefile can only contain one of those types. They can also have a lot of data associated with each entity via a separate .dbf file. I don't think a .gpx file can contain that much data on the individual objects.

As for what the problem is... sorry, no idea. But that's what I know about shapefiles. :)

In QGIS you have to reproject the layer (see vector/datamanagement/reproject) to WGS84/EPSG4326 and then export to GPX