Cutting and Pasting Between Applications

Not sure what you want to hear :)

I don't want to hear anything in particular. Having the choice of using old maps and Mapsource or current maps and Basecamp I'd prefer to use the current maps so I'm trying to come up with a workflow that will achieve what I want to do in Basecamp without going through too many hoops and hurdles (and I don't want to go through extra hoops and hurdles because I don't know the better way that exists). If I can't do that I'll go down the old maps and Mapsource route.

Did you read my original question? (and that's all it was, a simple question). I'll précis it for you - is it possible to create a route in Basecamp without having to create waypoints? From what you are saying it appears I can if I know where the places are and they are identified well enough on the map for me to be able to click on them using the new route tool. In the circumstances of one or other of those not being true, and they often aren't, the answer appears to be no.

I thought I'd found a way to do it by searching for something then clicking 'Create route from result' for the first then 'Add to route' for the subsequent locations but they both create waypoints from the search result I've used which need to be tidied up afterwards. It's a PITA but no great hassle now I know that's what I need to do.

Of course if you can't identify the point on the map you can't click on it, but in those circumstances you can't click on it in Mapsource either.

As per my original post on this, I wouldn't be trying to click on the map in Mapsouce (it was you who suggested that method). In Mapsource I can create a route using the route properties/find tool which is quick, easy and efficient as I don't have to tidy up waypoints afterwards (well, as quick, easy and efficient as anything else in Mapsource and Basecamp).

<snip> I'd start by creating a waypoint at the first location if I knew where it was or use the search tool to find it. Right click it and select 'Create route using selected waypoints'. Then use the search tool to find the others, once found in the search box you can right click them and select add to route. No need to save anything as a waypoint unless you want to.

I must be missing something there as the first two bits I've emboldened don't appear to fit with the last.

Kevin