Hi All,
Can anyone comment about the choices Basecamp presents regarding file formats when exporting a route for use in another navigation system? I'm attempting to create a route that can be imported to my Honda Goldwing (2023) navigation system. One of my dilemma's is that I can't find the file formats this system prefers.
I don't expect anyone here to be experts on the Goldwing navigation system, but if someone has accomplished this successfully , I love to hear from them.
Thanks,
Mike
Exporting Basecamp Route Extension Formats
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Re: Exporting Basecamp Route Extension Formats
When the latest generation of 'wings first came I considered upgrading but one thing that was a major deterrent was my understanding that you could not load an externally created route into its nav system. I hope that has changed. Regardless, I would be posting a question like yours on one of the Goldwing forums.
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Re: Exporting Basecamp Route Extension Formats
GPX is a very widespread format for routing. It has built in safety measure so that it a particular pices of software doesn't understand the tag (eg <Wpt>, <trkseg>, <Rtept>) It can just ignore that section of the file and process the rest.Ridethebus wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:04 pm Hi All,
Can anyone comment about the choices Basecamp presents regarding file formats when exporting a route for use in another navigation system? I'm attempting to create a route that can be imported to my Honda Goldwing (2023) navigation system. One of my dilemma's is that I can't find the file formats this system prefers.
I don't expect anyone here to be experts on the Goldwing navigation system, but if someone has accomplished this successfully , I love to hear from them.
Short answer . Use GPX. If a device or mapping program doesn't understand gpx, then its not worth its salt.
Longer answer.
GDB - is a database file which you can use to export (save) your current database. If you then wipe out your existing database or you have to re-install Basecamp, load in the database, and all is re-imported - however this method does not keep the Lists and list folders.
CSV - Comma separated Variables. Can be used for importing data into a spreadsheet, where each comma is used to indicate 'start a new column'. This can be dodgy with GPX files, as some fields will contain commas (eg like the address stored with a waypoint.
TXT is used for text files. In this case it says it is tab delimited (ascii 9) as opposed to comma (ascii 19). This too can be imported into a spreadsheet without having to worry about commas in text. CAn also be imported easily into word tables, or processed by a program reading the files as text.
KML is Keyhole Markup Language. I had to look it up, I didn't know what it stood for. But I do know that it used by Google earth. So if for example, you wanted to fly through a 3D landscape following you route, then you would export it as a KML and load it into Google earth. Link
TCX. I can read and understand XML files, but I am no expert and I try to avoid them. Difficult because my word program interprets all gpx files as XML. So I import gpx files into notepad and then paste them into word if I want to read them or do any significant find/replace or run macros on them.
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Use Basecamp (mainly), MyRouteApp (sometimes), Competent with Tread for XT2, Can use Explore for XT - but it offers nothing that I want !
Links: Zumo 590/5 & BC . . . Zumo XT & BC