Going To New Zealand, taking my XT

[Peobody]

Currently planning New Zealand days using XT plugged into Windows laptop , sd card map set driving basecamp, then putting routes into XT internal storage.

Be aware that the XT can change the original route file in internal storage but will never change one stored on the SD card. Consider putting the routes on the SD card from Basecamp and then import them using the Import function in Trip Planner. This way, should the imported route get inadvertently modified, you can delete it from Trip Planner and then re-import the original from the SD card.

I don't know all of the conditions that will cause the imported file to be modified but I have experienced it when I inadvertently changed a shaping point to a via point or vice versa (don't remember which). Worthy of note here is that you can give meaningful names to the .gpx files on the SD card, and the \GPX directory on the SD card can have any subdirectory structure you want. This is handy because it makes it easy to identify files that you no longer need on the card once a trip is complete. An example is a directory of \GPX\New Zealand containing route files named:
NZ Day 1.gpx
NZ Day 2.gpx
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[INBOC]

Hi
Some useful tips there much appreciated, I normally date and time start each route in basecamp and when I open route planner they are in order, but I may try your naming and filing convention and see how I get on. the sd card way seems the best way of keeping them locked in.
Many thanks INBOC

[Peobody]

Some useful tips there much appreciated, I normally date and time start each route in basecamp and when I open route planner they are in order, but I may try your naming and filing convention and see how I get on. the sd card way seems the best way of keeping them locked in.

The filename of the .gpx files in the SD card will not affect anything you do in Basecamp. All of that is contained within the .gpx file. The route name will not change. Departure date and time info will be maintained when the route is imported from the SD card by Trip Planner.

[INBOC]

HI
so i am now sorted to a level i am happy with, i am now using the downloaded map set on the sd card in the XT. i use this via the usb cable to use basecamp to plan all the routes as i would do normally. i then put the routes into the sd card on the xt. i disconnect the XT from the laptop. i go into indoor gps use. i then use a saved favourite in the XT to set a location and you need this for something else. i import a trip through trip planner. i then import the start of the trip by going to front and selecting where to, then use favourites to import the start of that particular route. ( if you dont have at least one saved favourite on XT when you start this process it wont see the ones on the sd card, you don't need one if routes directly imported into XT hard drive) set the location to the imported favourite of the start of the route and then calculate and simulate the route to check it in indoor gps setting.

so very pleased with the result and extremely happy with all the help i have been given
many thanks
INBOC

[twowheelstom]

now INBOC, what you did and are describing here is good, but for my simple mind, it sounds too complicated. in the past when i had a 550 i could work with SD cards on the 550, but now , i lost all my knowledge of how to use SD cards, I do have an SD card on my XT but only put MP3 music on it. but what i wanted to say is congrats on your XT