BaseCamp Help and Information

No difference....

Sure do appreciate all the suggestions....
Am working on each of them now.

Thanks Everyone....

On Basecamp I just took a file that works Attractions...(Brownwood) that has two pois in it.
I added two pois from the city of Budapest to it.

I used POI Loader and deleted everything from my Estras.

I then used POI Loader to upload only the Attractions,
The Brownwood file is their with it's two original pois but the other two from the city of Budapest are not there.....

Pulling out my hair.

I put my Budapest file in Word (the one that has some Budapest pois and one Prague poi)
They are all there and look the same.

I will put my Brownwood in Word and see what it look like

The same result...

Just looked at this video.
It is just what I do.
Thanks...

Perhaps more eyes may see something weird...

How do I post the gpx?

I can go to BaseCamp and send to device and the POIs are saved in the Favorites. They are correct and in the correct space on the map.

Using Basecamp to Export them to my file and then using POI Loader they will not go into my Extras.
Have worked on this for three days. I use Basecamp to export my other files, Prague, Vienna, Munich, etc and all works great... Just not Budapest...

Going to go to my craft room and sew for a while to get my mind back...

How many different files (folders) do you have under Attractions? I don't think Garmin has ever addressed the 32 file/folder limitation.

I don't think it is my file structure because I can put the files in my Brownwood folder with the two files in it and the two Brwonwood files are seen but not the Budapest files.

I put two of the files individually under Attractions, not in a folder. They showed up but when you click on them they say "No information found" just like the folder for Budapest does.

I open the files in Basecamp and the information is in the waypoint. They show up in my waypoints.....just not my Extras... I have over 27,000 files in Extra and am doing the same thing that I did to put these files there.....

I open them in Extra POI Editor and they are there and show correctly on the map.

It is very strange.

I just wiped all Extras off Garmin

Made a new folder on my computer
Put only two files in it.
Castle Hill Budapest
Charles Bridge Prague

click on Castle Hill Budapest - "No matches found"
Clidk on Charles Bridge Prague - It is there...

Assuming that you first deleted all the other POIs using POI Loader, when you ran only the Budapest file, what messages did you get from POI Loader as to the number of POIs loaded?

Then assuming your unit is similar to my 2595, what happens when you do Where To? > Categories > [down arrows] > Custom POIs > All Categories > All Categories (note the 2nd All Categories)?

At that point my 2595 gives me the closest 50 of all the Custom POIs - regardless of any categorization.

When Garmin added the feature in POI Loader that would automatically "correct" reversed coordinates, I think it was based on the concept that most land based coordinates when reversed will put you over an ocean somewhere. But in Budapest, reversing the coordinates actually puts you in the Saudi desert. I wonder if POI Loader is incorrectly reversing your Budapest coordinates, putting them in the wrong place. Not likely, but maybe something to check out.

Export the points in question. Open the new exported file in a text editor, copy from there, paste here.

I deleted everything and when I loaded it said 2 files.

I just made a Budapest file with Extra Poi Editor.
I put it in the same Test folder. Now I have 3 files in it. I used POI Loader and it said 3 files.
Three files are there but clicking on them only the one Prague file will show. The other two say "No match found"

Are the two non working ones really small? There may be no data in them due to some encoding issue.

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Phone:

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19.041358027607203,47.496883040294051,Castle Hill,"Lánchíd Utca 11
Budapest 1
Budapest 1013
Phone:

Lánchíd Utca 11

1013, Budapest 1, Budapest, HUN"

Just posted one...

Everything else is working ok when I use POI Loader.

I am going to delete my Loader and go to Garmin and redownload it.

My POI Loader does not say how "files" it loaded. On a run I just did with revised Jo-Ann files, it said the following

Please try JUST the budapest file again and let us know how many "POIs" that POI Loader says were loaded.

It's also a CSV format with column headings.

It said POIs.

I just deleted my poi loader and re downloaded it from Garmin

Reloaded all my data - said 27,353 POIs

But no luck....still the only poi in my Budapest folder is the Prague file.

Not sure what you mean. Basecamp saves it to .gpx so I went to Extra poi editor and changed it to a csv so I could open it in Notepad.

<gpx>
<wpt lat="47.496883040294051" lon="19.041358027607203">
<name>Castle Hill</name>
<cmt> </cmt>
<desc>Lánchíd Utca 11,1013, Budapest 1, Budapest, HUN</desc>
<extensions>
<gpxx:WaypointExtension>
<gpxx:Address>
<gpxx:StreetAddress>Lánchíd Utca 11</gpxx:StreetAddress>
<gpxx:City>Budapest 1</gpxx:City>
<gpxx:State>Budapest</gpxx:State>
<gpxx:Country>HUN</gpxx:Country>
<gpxx:PostalCode>1013</gpxx:PostalCode>
</gpxx:Address>
<gpxx:PhoneNumber>Phone:</gpxx:PhoneNumber>
</gpxx:WaypointExtension>
</extensions>
</wpt>

</gpx>

If you do a run with POI Loader pointing to ONE single folder that contains JUST the Budapest file (no other files or folders beneath the folder POI Loader points to), how many "POIs" were loaded successfully?

2014-03-18T17:08:10Z
"47.496883040294051" "19.041358027607203
"47.496883040294051" "19.041358027607203" />

lat="47.496883040294051" lon="19.041358027607203">
Castle Hill
Lánchíd Utca 11

1013, Budapest 1, Budapest, HUN
Lánchíd Utca 11

1013, Budapest 1, Budapest, HUN
Flag, Blue
user

SymbolAndName

Budapest

Lánchíd Utca 11
Budapest 1
Budapest
HUN
1013

SymbolAndName

Budapest

Lánchíd Utca 11
Budapest 1
Budapest
HUN
1013

My test folder has 3 .gpx and 1 .cvs.

I ran the new poi loader I just downloaded.
It said 4 pois

Only 3 show up The .cvs one that I forgot to remove does not show up.

When I click on these this is what I get.
Castle Hill Budapest ("No matches found")
Charles Bridge Prague (it's there and correct"
Castle Hill Budapest from POI Editor (no matches found)

Is there another way to get the POIs in Extra without using POI Loader?

Based on what you just said you have 3 .gpx files EACH OF WHICH HAVE ONLY ONE POINT OF INTEREST.

Sorry to shout like that but we really need to know what you are doing.

Then you had 1 .csv file but it did not show up.

Now you said there were 4 POIs loaded and the .csv file did not show up so that implies that one of the .gpx files had 2 POIs.

Three are .gpx and one is .csv
It seems not to matter if they are being seen my poi loader tells me they all four were sent. The map just doesn't recognize them.

Even when I change the lon and lat it doesn't work.

When you changed the lat and lon were the pois in the correct spot on the map?

I still can't get mine to work

I found this on a search on Google

""After wasting umpteenth amount of time, recreating POI file and reinstalling it on GPS over and over again.
It turns out to be "IMHO" a bug in the 1450, to see my newly installed custom POIs, I need to "Where To?" -> "Near" -> "A Different City" -> "Extras" -> "Custom POIs", and "bingo". I got my newly installed custom POIs.""
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I can see my Budapest POIs in Extra if I do what the above said. I have a 2450. When I do this I can not see any local POIs in Extra.

To see my local POIs again I have to go to Where to--Near-- Where I am now.

Then I have to go back to the top directions again to see Budapest again.

I don't have to do this with Prague, Munich, Vienna, Salzbury, only Budapest.

Strange.....

John took my files and worked on them, he could get them to work on his GPS but I could not get them to work on mine.

This is the email I sent back to John.
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"I did the steps on my 2450 that the post told to do and it worked as to the Budapest Extras but while doing this I had “No match found” for my local Extras.

So the files are on the 2450. You just have to go through a few hoops to see them.

I looked at everything and the only thing I can figure out is that Budapest is my furthest place with POIs.
My next pois are 5450 or so miles away. Since I can see my Extras to Budapest but not my local pois when I go through the directions I found, I am assuming that if you have POIs over 5500 miles away you have to change the city closer to your POIs to see your Extras.
I haven’t tested any further away places than Budapest to see yet but that is my theory."

The steps are in my above post.

So many have helped me and it has been a frustrating 3 days... Don't wan't to see Jill for a while.

Thanks again everyone.

Instead of trying to resolve the Budapest problem in this thread you should open a new tread for that hpurpose. It does not relate to Basecamp help and Informaton and it is saturating this post

The answer is also in the Garmin knowledge Base:

Why are my Custom POIs not showing up when I go to Extras on my device?

"If they are several hundred miles away, they will not show up even when searching by name. To find these points you will need to set your location near the Custom POIs and then search for them."

Thanks, Didn't find this in Garmin. The one I found was on another site.
Thanks

Thanks for your concern, but the problem occurred while using BaseCamp and there was no way of knowing if it was BaseCamp without these post.

Thanks anyway.

@Ginpi

I am likely the major offender of posts working with mgarledge to try and solve her problem. My original assumptions was that Basecamp somehow created a file with bad information. It turned out to not be a Basecamp problem but it was only after looking that the files that such was apparent. We are still not quite sure what the problem is but when we continue the discussion, we will open a new thread.

John

Thinking about downloading software I can use to create routes and upload to my Garmin Nuvi 2xx7 GPS. I believe from these comments Basecamp is available but no longer supported. What software would you all recommend and steer me toward as of today?

BaseCamp is still supported and gets occasional updates. The current Mac version is 4.6.3,

Installing now, on Windows 7. Will give it a whirl. Didn't realize it was free, I hadn't tried it previously because I thought it was close to $100. Don't know where I got that idea :-/

As far as I'm aware all development of BaseCamp has ended. Like MapSource though it should continue to work for many years to come

Basecamp has a pretty steep learning curve. There are many helpful tips in this ongoing post as well as in the FAQ section:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/41134

Many here, including myself, still use Garmin's older Mapsource program as a companion to Basecamp. I find it quicker and easier to use for simple tasks.

Although Mapsource support was discontinued in 2010, the program is still available here:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=209

For the links.

I understand that the default install location for maps (e.g. CN NA 2020.20) on a PC is in C:/ProgramData/GARMIN/Maps

Is it possible to install maps in another location and have BaseCamp find them? Or BaseCamp let me browse to them? Or create some symlink?

I'd like to put my maps on my D: drive instead of my C: drive.

thanks.

Simplest way is to use JaVaWa's GMTK program to move the maps

http://www.javawa.nl/gmtk_en.html

Thanks for this. Sorry I got sidetracked.
-ceej

I use BaseCamp to store all my personal map/travel data. Specifically my Favorites. I keep them in lists, export the lists by name, move them to the (Zumo) GPS, then import them. They show up in groups. This is all good.

Occasionally when I am on the road (or it is not convenient for me to access BaseCamp), I will add a new favorite through the GPS interface. I don't do a good job of remembering when and what I have added, so those favorites don't get entered into BaseCamp.

I'm wondering if it is somehow possible to compare Favorites in BaseCamp and on the GPS to find those in one place and not in the other? I'm not looking for some sync function. But a 'differences' would be really nice. Or anything close to such a thing. I realize there is unlikely any program to do this. But does anyone have (or suggest) even some kind of manual procedure for doing so?

Thanks,
-ceej

When I want to do this I simply delete the data in BaseCamp and copy the current data across from my device, only takes a few seconds.

I do this all the time.

In BaseCamp, you can sort the points by newest, oldest, name and type. When I want to transfer the new points I created on my GPS to BaseCamp, I attach the GPS to the computer, then in BC, I sort the points by Sort by Date: Newest First. That displays the recently added points on the GPS on the top of the list. I then select those points and drag them to the "On My Computer" location.

Play around with this and you figure out all you can do with it.

Where do you do that, all I see are sort by symbol, name, ascending, descending? Never found a way to sort them by date etc