maximum number of waypoints in 4.1.1

I have a gpx that contains 16000 public camping spots. I have broken that down into the 1800 or so that provide electricity, but when I try to stick the 14,000 in, I get an error. Am I struggling with a messed up gpx, or just not possible to stick that many waypoints in.

My plan was to have all the campsites that provided water and electric under one symbol, then just water under another, and dry campsites in a 3rd.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Well FALAGAR should be able to tell us what the BC limit is if there is one.

Under the hood BC saves data in a GDB file. I'm not aware of a practical limit (as I recall 32-bit integers are used for counts--so 4,294,967,296 is the limit) to the amount of data it can contain.

There is no (practical) hard limit.

However, there is an issue with reading (and writing) large gpx files. At some point we run out of memory and fail to import the file. When that is depends a lot on what kind of PC you have. If you want to import large gpx files and BaseCamp fails to do so, try converting the file to gdb and import it that way (use GPSBabel to do the conversion).

Improving XML handling so we don't choke on large gpx files is on the to-do-list.

0 atlas_cached over 12 years ago

There is no (practical) hard limit.

However, there is an issue with reading (and writing) large gpx files. At some point we run out of memory and fail to import the file. When that is depends a lot on what kind of PC you have. If you want to import large gpx files and BaseCamp fails to do so, try converting the file to gdb and import it that way (use GPSBabel to do the conversion).

Improving XML handling so we don't choke on large gpx files is on the to-do-list.

What constitutes a large GPX file? :confused:

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

One that chokes Basecamp ;)

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

One that chokes Basecamp ;)

Pretty much. It's highly dependent on your system. But I don't think it's something you would encounter during normal use with your GPS.