.gpx export from BaseCamp to micro sd card - device nuvi 1340

Former Member over 11 years ago

Hello
I have searched the forums. Unable to grasp from various posts answers to below questions:-
What folder(s) and directory paths do I need on the micro sd card to place the .gpx files I have created?
Do I need to create this before loading the card to device? (Once card in device and device connected to pc I have tried [in BaseCamp where device shows] to right click to 'Create New' and it won't allow - is only showing 'Memory Card (G:)/User Data). Unless of course the answer is to just place the files in the 'User Data' folder?
In an earlier answer to an earlier process question by myself the folder 'Maps' was given. If so where should that folder be on the sd card? Or do I just rename the 'User Data' folder through direct link to my pc before placing in device?
(I created the .gpx files by following a Youtube video from jobybyrne - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPvV_c1M8yc. I'm eager to try them as if they work would be a real answer to my 3K cycle journey through France).

OR - Are the instructions here correct - http://smallbusiness.chron.com/download-maps-micro-sd-card-garmin-device-56099.html

Also saw a POI of some 9000 + campsites in France but can't find the web site again. Any ideas? If so, how would I put this on to nuvi 1340

Many thanks for any help
Phill

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

If you use Basecamp to send routes etc to your Nuvi/card it will place the files in the correct folder. They will be placed in the GPX folder, both on the nuvi and card. To manually use .gpx files copy them into the GPX folder on your nuvi, or if you want them on the card and there is no GPX folder then you will need to create one.

POI files need to be placed in the POI folder.

Note a folder for maps should be named Map, not Maps.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Thank you though please make clear for me? Take sd card out and put direct in pc with adaptor. Now make a path on sd card of (currently while in pc) D:/GPX

Is that what I do? Then put card back in nuvi and export to that folder from within BaseCamp?

Do they have to go anyway into nuvi anyway? Or can I just have them on a sd card alone? Worried if have to always go onto nuvi all the maps I create for 3000 mile trip will exceed nuvi memory - could it?

Very new to all this so sorry - obviously accept note re 'Map'.
Phill

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

If the card is in your nuvi then you can send data to the card from within Basecamp and it will create the necessary folders. Only if you are manually copying .gpx files onto a card would you need to create a GPX folder (assuming it doesn't already have one). Note that the nuvi's 'Internal storage' folder you see in Basecamp is the one you need to send data to, it won't show separate folders so don't expect to see a GPX folder there.

You can put .gpx files onto nuvi or card, it really doesn't matter, same with maps. As to whether the internal nuvi memory would be exceeded who knows ... it would depend on what you're trying to send there :)

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Thank you again and so quick.

Done that and me of little faith! BUT! I see files on the sd card both on my pc and when card in device and selected on BaseCamp shows up the one route I sent to card (I right clicked it selected send to). The sd card in BaseCamp shows the route on screen but not the files (I see these including the GPX folder etc when I load card to pc)

How do I see it on the nuvi 1340 when out and about! I go to Tools/Settings/Map the INFO at bottom and it only gives me CN Europe NT 2013.40 (which is green ticked).

What else have I missed doing. The files I saw on the pc were very small!
Phill

p.s. re-booted nuvi as well

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Apologies, just realised you are sending routes to your nuvi, I had assumed it was just waypoints as the 13xx series cannot handle routes. The best you can do is send the waypoints which will appear in Favourites on your nuvi.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Aaaagh! So what you are saying is there is NO way I could plan a whole series of routes round France to complete a 3000 mile cycle on ANY application on my pc which could then be uploaded/exported/sent to any Garmin nuvi 13xx series (which obviously includes my 1340!)?

Which means the past four days of investigation and uphill pushing from my first post (stating a nuvi 1340) have been fruitless?

Can Garmin forums now offer any options (except don't go!)? The 1340 has a 'cycle' option however with this selected it will route you down, for example the A1 !!. Planning to date has used Google Maps - brilliant (as said in first post) as around all the 3000 miles it tracks all cycleways/canal sides/riversides/disused railway lines. All optimum for a cyclist, including in the Pyrenees!

Can Garmin offer a solution as to now it seems all to be a waste of time. Thank you to everyone who has either answered or read anyway, even though the answer was impossible but not noticed until now.

Phill

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Well your 1340 will route you, but it would have to be from waypoint to waypoint, inputting the next as you reach each one. The 'solution' would be to get a Garmin that does routes/trips.

Unfortunately your earlier posts didn't really explain you wanted to import routes, otherwise you may have received the bad news earlier.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Thank you.
What 'type' of Garmin does routes/trips please? How do I identify them?
As explained in my first post in 23rd February, in which I used 'routes' I'm very very new to this at 63 years.
Accept I'm probably speaking a different language but when I'm ignorant what do you do.
Again, thank you if you could recommend a device.
Phill

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

The 14xx series do routes, I have a 1490, and most of the newer nuvis do 'trips'. This table might help, although it's not exhaustive, you need a nuvi that does multi-point routing.

http://gpstracklog.com/compare/garmin-nuvi-comparison-chart

However if this involves buying a new device it may be worth you looking at the Garmin Edge, which is specifically aimed at cyclists. With maps though it would be a more expensive option.

And yes, while you mentioned routes in your first posts all GPS will do simple routes, but not all are capable of the mutli-point routing it's now clear you're after.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Most kind
Thank you.
Think it will have to be Michelin maps by the look of it. Shouldn't put expectations out of reach
No more from me.