Joining routes?

Former Member over 13 years ago

OK, I'm learning to use BaseCamp with my Zumo 665 and Rino 655t. And I have Topo U.S. 24K Southwest loaded on micro SD cards in both, and that's what I'm using in BaseCamp.

I'm working to build an off road route using BaseCamp and a National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map. This is being done in an area I have been visiting for three years now, but want to better understand.

So I've added a "new file" and put in it the waypoints that I have put in myself and tracks from past trips.

So I'm in the process of developing a route using ATV as my activity profile. I come to one section where the trails in BaseCamp and on the Natl Geo map don't appear. But, I have a track follows a trail. Yup, I believe in "stay the trail" so there is a trail there.

So, I put waypoints at the two points in the track that mark the start and end of the section of the track where it joins mapped trails. Then I edited a copy of the track to just what is between those two new waypoints and converted it to a route. The newly created route is exactly what I rode before.

Now the hard part. How do I put this newly created route into the route I was building in BaseCamp? I've tried a number of things, including looking at the created route properties. Hmmm...no all the vias in the new route aren't there. I converted each of the vias in the created route into waypoints and inserted them into my built route. No that made thiings go crazy.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Rooster

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

Creating a route on trails that do not exist in the map data is not currently supported by BaseCamp.

You are probably better off just to use a track, or just use Direct Routing all along.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

Joining routes

That's what I have figured out.

So I've continued my route along identified trails.

Put a clearly identified waypoints where my "track route" starts and ends and use them to identify where I can choose to change routes.

I was looking at my original route properties and it appears that every waypoint is set to "alert on arrival". But, if I just have the waypoint where my two routes meet, do I have the ability to tell a waypoint to alert as I arrive? Or do I have to put it into my original route?

Thanks,

Stuart

0 SUSSAMB over 13 years ago

You can right click any waypoint and select it to either alert, or not alert, on arrival :)

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

SUSSAM

Hmmm...if I right click on a waypoint either in the browser or on the map screen, I don't get an option to "alert upon arrival".

Am I missing something? Or what does the wording say for turning on the alert?

Thanks,

Rooster

0 SUSSAMB over 13 years ago

You can't do it on the map screen, at least I don't believe so? You need to go to Route Properties (right click route and select Properties) and right click the points in there.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

SUSSAMB,

Yup, I have seen that.

But I'm wondering about waypoints I have put it, that aren't part of a route. So that if I'm the area I can have it alert me that its close by and I can decide if I want to check it out.

Here in Colorado, old mines and small ghost towns fit this well. They aren't on the trail, but some are on various maps or in books and I can scale off pretty accurate waypoint coordinates.

Thanks,

Rooster

0 SUSSAMB over 13 years ago

Ah, I see what you're trying to do now, just simply alert when you're within a certain radius of a waypoint that's not part of the route?

On certain handhelds you can set a proximity alert for a waypoint, but I don't believe you can set that within Basecamp then send the waypoint (with associated alert) to your handheld.

There are ways to save POIs onto GPS and then set alerts for those, but that's probably not worth the effort.