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Routes and the Waypoints Contained Within

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I have a route I sent to my GPSMAP62s. Basecamp adds a "1" to many of the WP's within the route even though none of the individual WP's have that. Additionally, when I review the route on the GPS some of the WP's display the contents of the "Comment:" instead of the contents of the "Name" field! This only occurs within the route, the individual WP's used to create the route appear normal.

I can edit the gpx file in Notepad and remove the "1"s but, in viewing the file, I can't see what the problem is with the files named with the "comment". For those, I edit the route in the GPS deleting the wierd WP and inserting the correct WP (actually the same one!). Rather tedious to get the GPS to display the WP name properly.

In looking at the gpx file, I noticed a series of "wpt"s in addition to the WPs for the "rte" entries.

As a side note to this, I would find useful, the ability to edit the name of a WP within a route.
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    The problem waypoints in the route have the format below. The non-problem waypoints do NOT have the <time>, <cmt>, and <desc> lines. By process of elimation, the line <cmt>MP 140.2</cmt> is the culpret! That line is displayed instead of <name>San Diego Jct</name>. Removing the <cmt> line allows <name> to be displayed as I desire.

    The corresponding <wpt> has the same format but displays without problem. I manually edited all of these entries and the route displays fine on the GPSMAP62s.

    <rtept lat="xx.xxx" lon="-xxx.xxx">
    <time>2011-08-24T01:51:18Z</time>
    <name>San Diego Jct</name>
    <cmt>MP 140.2</cmt>
    <desc>MP 140.2</desc>
    <sym>Crossing</sym>
    <extensions>
    <gpxx:RoutePointExtension>
    <gpxx:Subclass>000000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF</gpxx:Subclass>
    </gpxx:RoutePointExtension>
    </extensions>
    </rtept>
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    So there are really two issues here:

    1. BaseCamp adds a 1 to certain waypoints in the route. I would like to know the specific steps you used to create such a route, so I can reproduce it. How did you create the route? Did the '1' appear in BaseCamp already when you checked the route properties, or did it only appear after your sent it to the device?

    2. The device doesn't display the name of a route point, but the comment instead. Could you attach a gpx file of the route and tell me which map product you used to create it? At first glance, this looks like a device issue, but we'll see once I can reproduce this.
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    I have a route I sent to my GPSMAP62s. Basecamp adds a "1" to many of the WP's within the route even though none of the individual WP's have that. Additionally, when I review the route on the GPS some of the WP's display the contents of the "Comment:" instead of the contents of the "Name" field! This only occurs within the route, the individual WP's used to create the route appear normal.

    I can edit the gpx file in Notepad and remove the "1"s but, in viewing the file, I can't see what the problem is with the files named with the "comment". For those, I edit the route in the GPS deleting the wierd WP and inserting the correct WP (actually the same one!). Rather tedious to get the GPS to display the WP name properly.

    In looking at the gpx file, I noticed a series of "wpt"s in addition to the WPs for the "rte" entries.

    As a side note to this, I would find useful, the ability to edit the name of a WP within a route.


    Well I do not have a 62s and I do not use BaseCamp but I have had a similar problems with 1's being added.

    Whenever I load a gpx file that has waypoints into my 705 and some of the waypoints are already in my 705, then the 705 adds a "1" to the names of all duplicate waypoints.

    I use MapSource and you cannot enter duplicate waypoints into it, it gives a warning and stops so the problem is with the gps.

    Regarding the display of name or comment. It should be much easier to edit on the computer with BaseCamp.
    In MapSource ( probably the same in BaseCamp) open the gpx file then click the Waypoint tab, select a group with Shift-LeftClick and/or add more individual waypoints with Ctrl-LeftClick. After all that you want to change are highlighted then right click, pick Waypoint properties, now whatever symbol and Display option you pick will be applied to all selected waypoints.

    Also I'm sure that it will be easy to fix all the waypoint names using BaseCamp.

    I only load 1 gpx file with waypoints at a time in my 705 so, before loading, it is easy for me to Delete All waypoints then load the new file and I get no duplicates with the hated "1's". :D
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    I tried all this again with the same results. I'm thinking now that the portion of the route that I created in the 62s acts normally while the points added to that same route via Basecamp are presenting the problem. The attachment: route0.gpx is an existing route where I added waypoints using Basecamp. These added waypoints (rtept) are displaying the <cmt> field instead of the <name> field when I examine the route in the 62s.

    The attachment: route1.gpx is a newly created test file using only the problematic waypoints (using Basecamp). All of these exhibit the same behavior as they did when added to the existing route described above. These waypoints all look normal when examined in the routes properties in Basecamp. For some reason, when using these waypoints in a route, they are also added as individual waypoints in the route file. The "normal" waypoints are not.

    As far a the "-1" goes, I understand that is how BC handles duplicate names. When creating these routes, there were NO "-1" items in My Collection. I routinely go through and clean that stuff up. It would be nice if BC would handle this like Windows...inform the user of a duplicate and then provide information, especially date, and give the user a choice to overwrite or, keep both thus producing a "-1".

    Waypoint names may be edited but, once contained in a route they may not. That is why I use Windows Exporer and Notepad a lot to clean this stuff up.

    Thanks, John
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    As a followup to my previous post...using the same waypoints, I created the same route again using the GPSMAP 62s instead of Basecamp. The route is displayed on the GPS as it should be...it displays the <name> field, not the <cmt> field.