Base Camp Route to Trip Planner

If you are wanting to import a route on your nuvi 2300, I think this is one of the few Trip Planner nuvi's that does not allow route import.

I am wanting it for the 765. How to get from route to trip planner has nothing to do with what gps I am wanting to use.

Routes and trip planner are two different animals and I'm not certain what you want to do is truly possible (at least easily).

I don't think your 765 is compatible with trip planner but then I've never used trip planner for a route because of the difficulties in getting it to do what you actually want accomplished. If all you want to do is get from A to B, then trip planner works but it isn't any different than plugging the destination into your 765 and hitting GO.

Personally, I map the route in BaseCamp inserting the needed shaping points and then build a route from the waypoints. But my 3795 takes shaping points where it doesn't alert but my older units don't.

never mind.

I believe what GPS your using has everything to do with your issue. Since the 765 doesn't support Trips, only Routes, you can't create a Trip on that device, whether transfered from Basecamp or created on the device.

On the other hand if you want to create a route in Basecamp and, for some reason, create a Trip in Basecamp from that route, I have no idea if that can be done. I'd just create the Trip in Basecamp in the first place.

We are confused as to what you mean by "Trip Planner" as the 765 does not have this.

Are you trying to get a "Route" into the 765? If so, you might look at How To Copy A Route From Basecamp To A GPSmap 60CSx at http://www.poi-factory.com/node/42216 and adapt it to the 765.

Routes transferred to Nuvi2460 using Basecamp take quite awhile to appear in the Trip Planner App. This, even though Basecamp indicates completion of transfer. If the user is not aware of the time lag it might seem that the unit is not working properly when in fact this is normal for some devices. Any comments are welcome.

I have a series of cities I want to visit across the US. The furthest point is Spokane. I also have specific cities I want to visit on the way. I do not know which day I would be at each city

home, AL
Wichita, Ks
Albuquerque, Nm
Las Vegas, Nv
Spokane, Wa
Fargo, Nd
home, AL

This is the route as optimized. How do I create a trip plan for this route?

I would just enter each of the destination cities as a "Saved Place".

Since you do not know when you will be in each city - only that you know which city will be next - just pick the appropriate city each time you want to continue and let the 765 get you there.

If your just dealing with a series of cities you could easily create the route right on the Nuvi (although I agree with jgermann that you could just start off each day by picking Where To? - Cities - and enter the city you want to go to next from your starting location).

If you want to create an actual route one way would be to create 2 routes. The first would be from your home to Spokane. That would be Where To - Cities - Spokane - OK, then Where To - Cities - Las Vegas - Ok - Add to current Route. Repeat these steps for Albuquerque, and then Wichita, in that order.

The second route would be for your return trip home. Use Where To - Home, then Where To - Cities - Fargo - Add to Current Route.

Once you have the 2 routes created you just need to load the one required (to Spokane or from Spokane) and use it on a daily basis to take you from your starting location on that day to the next place in the route.

You could try doing this using a single route but you'd have to careful to enter the cities in the right order to keep the Nuvi from routing you to, say, Fargo before Spokane.

I don't know trip planner. I was wanting to do it in trip planner to see if it was any good. So far the answer is no.

My biggest issue with BaseCamp's Trip Planner is that it is not flexible for the way I travel. It starts out asking you to first enter the number of driving hours per day and length (in days) of your trip and then assigns a distance for each day's travel based on distance and the number of days allotted. If you want to go further than what is set in trip planner then it fails because you can't easily adapt the routing/stopping points on the fly.

Trip planner works on segments in that the trip is broken into segments and you can't modify a segment once Trip Planner has made up its route and distances to be covered. Now, that being said, it may be possible to modify a trip, but by then I'm so frustrated with the software I won't investigate further.

I use the routing tool in that I enter my starting point and end point then add stops/waypoints as needed to build the route. Once the start and end are set, you can add the waypoints in the order needed and then transfer the entire route to your 765. As the entire route is entered as a whole, if you extend a day's travel by traveling either more or less distance than trip planner allocated, the route doesn't care where the trip planner itinerary would be messed up because it couldn't handle the change on the fly.

If you try to do this in Trip Planner, from my limited experience you would do it by city pairs. In other words the first pair is Home to Wichita, then Wichita to Albuquerque and so on. You don't want to do the entire trip as one plan.

That was what I was finding. I do not see any advantage in trip planner. It should be an extension of routing not a poorer replacement.

If you can export the trip as a GPX file, and want to route the trip on your Mac computer, try Road Trip Planner:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/road-trip-planner/id80507124...