Routes failing to import

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Re: Routes failing to import

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Oop North John wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:05 am [Looking for the trips in the "Systems" file, I don't see it in my internal drive, only in the external when I have the SD card installed, is the system folder a hidden one?
It sure is hidden. This page app.php/ZXT-P84 shows you how you can make it visible.
Having said that, I think the XT will stil work if you dont delete them. It's just something I would clean up.
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Re: Routes failing to import

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@FrankB
FrankB wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:49 am Conclusion: It might be as simple as "You cannot have multiple Via points in a route with the same name."
Hmmmm - maybe you've trapped an error(?), which often occurs in the last months! There where so many postings with 'could not import this route' in many of the navigation-based forums.

It seems logical, when thinking about how Basecamp handel the names of points in his database - no two points with the same name are allowed! Thinking about this import-problem, this now makes more sense!

This are the problems to avoid when using third-party-sources of routes and tracks...
Bye, Robert :)
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Re: Routes failing to import

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Rofor wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 9:11 am This are the problems to avoid when using third-party-sources of routes and tracks...
I do agree with your statement about 'using third-party-sources'. But in this case It was reproducible with Basecamp. First create a Waypoint, and then use that same Waypoint twice in a route as a Viapoint. No combination of Exporting, Importing, recalculating in Basecamp fixed it.

I am unsure if this is an error in Basecamp or in the XT. May be try it on some different models (like the 595) and see what happens.
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Re: Routes failing to import

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Oh, maybe i've misunderstood that!?
Was the same point used twice or where there two different points with the same name used?
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Re: Routes failing to import

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Rofor wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:28 am Was the same point used twice or where there two different points with the same name used?
The same point was used twice. The GPX files posted will show you.
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Re: Routes failing to import

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Frank had already sorted this out before I got to read it - but it intrigued me anyway, so I tried a few things.

The original route transfers but will not import.

I took a copy into Basecamp and moved all of the points that were off road, onto the road - wondering if that was an issue.
In doing this, Basecamp asked if I wanted to duplicate the route points as well. Yes I ddi, becasue I was going to move them, and it would have moved the originals too. That roue transferred and imported perfectly Ok - but that was becasue it renamed all of the points 'Whatever 2'. Except Queens View for which it created Queens View 2 and Queens View 3. That imported perfectly well.

I renamed the route and created a GPX file and emailed that to my mobile phone and transferred that across. The XT told me it had imported a new route, but it wasn't there - according to the XT. But the gpx files was still there in Internal Storage / GPX folder.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Trip files in .System - there is one for each route - contain a flag to say don't bother loading this - it has a fault. But I had a look and I cannot spot anything.

It seems as though it just aborts when it comes across the same Waypoint in a different location.
Which is odd - I've often done that. At least, I think that I have.

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