How to plot a route on Google Maps and export into Basecamp

Normski
Normski
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Publicado 2021-04-13
Plotting a route for an upcoming adventure is a fascinating project that I usually enjoy over the winter. There are a lot of complaints from bikers about Basecamp and people wanting to throw their Garmin/Navigators into the nearest river. Even read about one owner who, in frustration of yet another wrong direction, got off his bike, threw it on the floor and stamped it to death! I have also been very close, two years ago on a trip through the Pyrenees. So I came home and did a lot of research......see if this video helps. I use Google Maps to very quickly plot the route and then into Basecamp to load it into my Navigator, or send it to my fellow bikers who can download a gpx file into their BMW App and TFT Screens!

Here are the instructions for Apple Mac but similar to PC?
1. Go to Goggle Maps and sign into your MY MAPS.
2. Go to Menu, Your Places, click and MAPS
3. At foot of Maps click CREATE MAP
4. Click the icon with 3 little circles and lines that says Draw Line. Then add driving route.
5. Click empty white box above the draw a line icon and that adds a Driving untitled layer with A and B
6. Type in A your Start place and it will find it. Type in B your end and find it.
7. The route will be displayed, make any adjustments by left button on mouse and dragging the route to where you want it.
8. Tap the 3 dots next to untitled maps and click Export to KML File. Save on desktop or wherever you normally save.
9. Open Base Camp with your Navigator plugged in, make a New List and name. Drag and drop the KML file into that New List.
10. It appears as a Track and Change the colour so you can see it better...Green best.
11. Change ACTIVITY to DIRECT
12. Top toolbar hit Basecamp Preferences, ADVANCED
13. Change Track Conversion Via points to approx 1 per every 4 miles CLOSE
14. Go back and hit the TRACK and Create Route from Track...straight helicopter lines.
15. Change activity to Motorcycling and it is good to check each via point and move if off position, especially roundabouts.
16. Transfer to device and export if you need a gpx file to send to mates
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  • @stephenc127
    Another brilliant tutorial!! It has helped me plan a group trip to visit my friend in the East of England. Many thanks, Norman.
  • @WhiteKnulp
    Thank you so much for your video! The logical progression and clarity allowed me to plot and add the route for our trip to the Southern Cape in South Africa without any frustration! Thank you again!
  • @hkhajah
    This was very helpful thank you ! Very clear and detailed explanation . I always use the Google map and you are absolutely right, it does take you on closed routes some times which is very annoying.
  • @stuipooey1
    Such a useful video, i was having a terrible time with converting tracks to routes from Kml files. Now on the basis of one waypoint per 4 miles the routes are now usually spot on, also with this number of way points its a lot easier to fix any route errors after transferring to basecamp. I have also been a victim of google map creations in Europe, on the bike not so bad however I once towed a caravan through the centre of Geneva in the rush hour and took a motorhome down what looked like a road on the map in France, 8 miles of torture as i couldnt turn. Basecamp may be a challenge to learn however it is worth the effort.
  • @raymondwright2660
    Super video Normski made trip planning much easier, I had been planning in Google Maps then doing it again in Basecamp.
  • @100868ful
    Very helpful,Well done video. Thank you.
  • @MillfieldWheels
    Well done! Great video. The devil in me is grinning as you have the same MacOS glitch as I have. The map Font being a serif font instead of the sans serif it is on every other PC.
  • @cozydram1
    as ever norm your educating me thank you
  • @yellownev
    A great video and something I'll certainly be looking into as an alternative to plotting routes on basecamp.
  • @outdoorstours
    So nice upload, I wish you all the best and have a great day. Like 16
  • @PavyJP
    Great explanation and very nice trip afterwards! Makes me wanna go back to Britain again! One thing which is super useful when you plan a trip, is to actually "navigate" the routes you are not sure in Google Streeview. Can save you from those nasty gravel tracks. Also one question, how do you insert a Relive video in a Youtube video? Using Relive for quite some time now and I'd like to add the results in my videos as you did. Thanks!
  • @acehandler1530
    I could not make this happen on my Garmin 1450. I had to rebuild the route (about 3000 kms in Canada) using waypoints - which BaseCamp puts in stupid order so the route goes back and forth...but you can make a 'symbol' for each waypoint, some of which available are numbers. So I numbered each sequential waypoint with the corresponding sequential number and - voila, worked! Sent it to my Nuvi 1450 and there it is as a 'route'. Phew.
  • @bobprince1472
    The 651 or so points are `shaping points` necessary to draw the graphic following the road. Not really anything to do with navigation.
  • @thomashocker5088
    Such a useful and enjoyable video; thank you very much! I followed your instructions, but when it comes to converting the track to a route, I just don't manage to get more than 2 waypoints, i.e. those for start and finish. I played with the general settings, i.e. setting the maximum number of waypoints under the advanced settings and using direct as the driving profile, but the driving profile always seems to switch back to Motorrad automatically which then results in 2 waypoints only. I'm using the latest version of Basecamp on a Mac. Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks!
  • @MichaelBrown-yt7tu
    All was going so well up until adding a new list and dragging the KM file across. Error message " is not a valid GPX file and could not be opened" Unable to add it to Basecamp. What have I missed? Basecamp 4.8.12 and Mac OS 10.13.6 High Sierra.
  • @Oysterseagull
    I’ve long given up with basecamp. It’s awful to use. I use MRA which is so much easier to use.
  • @garyreinke5161
    I don’t understand why anyone would create a route using google maps, re-routing, converting, ect, ect and spending far too much time when I could have created the same route in Basecamp in one fourth the time and NO conversions and READY to send to friends or my XT? What is the advantage?
  • @OriginalKaw4Life
    You may have noticed ... after you created a folder in Basecamp and dragged the KML into that folder ... it did not place the data into it but rather created a new folder. That said if you drag another KML into base camp that folder will be replaced with the new data. Do some poking around and you will see what happened ... more Basecamp discombobulation of reality.