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

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3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Another brilliant tutorial!! It has helped me plan a group trip to visit my friend in the East of England. Many thanks, Norman.

@normski3091 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Stephen ... really appreciate that 🤗

@hkhajah 3 ай бұрын

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.

@normski3091 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Haroon, now I am trying to get my head around Calimoto and Apple car play😵‍💫

@WhiteKnulp 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@normski3091 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Emil. I would do love to ride to the Cape. My son and his wife live in Johannesburg, we visited in 2019 and loved every single minute, what a fantastic country 🤗

@WhiteKnulp 2 жыл бұрын

@@normski3091, well, if you do, you'll have a bed here in Cape Town.

@stuipooey1 3 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Super video Normski made trip planning much easier, I had been planning in Google Maps then doing it again in Basecamp.

@normski3091 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant Raymond. I have two computer screens so now I plan on Google Maps on one screen and then on the other screen I open Basecamp and just follow the route 😅

@100868ful 8 ай бұрын

Very helpful,Well done video. Thank you.

@normski3091 8 ай бұрын

Thank you Tony🤗

@SalopianBivvyman Жыл бұрын

excellent information, thank

@normski3091 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Salopian 🤗

@cozydram1 2 жыл бұрын

as ever norm your educating me thank you

@normski3091 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil 🤗

@MillfieldWheels 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@normski3091 3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha eagle eyes Ian 🤣

@yellownev 3 жыл бұрын

A great video and something I'll certainly be looking into as an alternative to plotting routes on basecamp.

@outdoorstours 3 жыл бұрын

So nice upload, I wish you all the best and have a great day. Like 16

@normski3091 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your comments.....much appreciated 🤗

@PavyJP 3 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq video? Using Relive for quite some time now and I'd like to add the results in my videos as you did. Thanks!

@normanhill316 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Pavy, Thanks for your comments and you are right about checking, even a few dodgy sections on Google street view. I learnt the easiest way ever with Relive from a KZfaq guy. In Relive you can send to Instagram (even if you do not have Instagram). Send your route and then go into your pictures library and there it is, which then can be easily imported into your video. I couldn't believe that it would work but I still find it the quickest way. Any problems let me know.

@PavyJP 3 жыл бұрын

@@normanhill316 hi Norman! Thanks for the answer! I’ll take a look into that! I’m new to Garmin Zumo as well and still struggling with it after one week! If you don’t mind I have an additional question: when you import your route created in Basecamp in the Zumo, do you get the turn by turn instructions when you ride it? I tried and didn’t get them … maybe I missed something or it just doesn’t exist?

@normski3091 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I get turn by turn instructions but I actually turn them off because every time they come on it stops our rider to rider conversation. Two years ago I left a petrol station in Spain and stayed on the WRONG side of a main road as I approached a corner😱. My brother was behind screaming into his Senna to warn me but as the Sat Nav was giving instructions I couldn’t hear him🤦‍♂️. He kept his hand on the horn and I pulled across seconds before a 40’ lorry came around the corner 💀. We both have Sena’s and you are supposed to be able to correct that but I cannot make it work. Also if your filming then you do not want instructions being recorded all the time. However yours should at least work??

@acehandler1530 Жыл бұрын

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.

@normski3091 Жыл бұрын

Hi Ace, yes agree never easy. I have dropped the Google map part, just have it open next to me and plot direct into Basecamp. Just so fast and perfectly accurate 🤗. You will see me doing that on latest The Peak videos😊

@acehandler1530 Жыл бұрын

@@normski3091 Now...if I can just figure out how to keep the rain out of the power socket...fresh Vaseline every day? 🙂

@thomashocker5088 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@normski3091 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Thomas, let me have a look 👀. Just leaving for the first ride on my rebuilt 1150GS so will not be today 🤗

@thomashocker5088 2 жыл бұрын

@@normski3091 Thank you and have fun with your rebuilt GS. I ride the 2015 1200 RT ;-)

@thomashocker5088 2 жыл бұрын

@@normski3091 I could actually resolve it. The problem was that I changed the driving profile in the preferences to direct. This didn't work. However, there is however a drop down "activity" menu on the top of the main window and when I change the profile to direct there and do the track to route conversion thereafter it works like a charm. I can now have as many waypoint as I like in my route. Fantastic...

@normski3091 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant Thomas, I was scratching my head 🤯

@bobprince1472 Жыл бұрын

The 651 or so points are `shaping points` necessary to draw the graphic following the road. Not really anything to do with navigation.

@FB-yp5dk 26 күн бұрын

Its called Waypoints and they are single coördinates. It all has to do with navigation.

@MichaelBrown-yt7tu 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@normski3091 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, not sure why that is happening. Let me try to recreate and come back to you!

@Oysterseagull Жыл бұрын

I’ve long given up with basecamp. It’s awful to use. I use MRA which is so much easier to use.

@garyreinke5161 Жыл бұрын

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?

@normski3091 Жыл бұрын

Hi Gary, yes, you may be surprised, but I totally agree. Please watch a new series around the Peak I have just started and uploaded the first video last week. I plot on Basecamp as you describe. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g56cic6pubm8nHU.html

@JBK647 4 ай бұрын

Could you now make a video about creating the route in Basecamp?@@normski3091

@stevewolf2620 3 жыл бұрын

What? WHAT?

@OriginalKaw4Life 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@normski3091 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Richard....I will have a close look.

@Bonzodogdick 10 ай бұрын

13:06. I can't find 'preferences', let alone 'advanced' (Basecamp version: 4.7.5)

@normski3091 10 ай бұрын

Hi Bon, yes I found the same when I went on last week. Basecamp have changed Preferences to something else. Will open it up and come back to you🤷🏼‍♂️

@Bonzodogdick 10 ай бұрын

@@normski3091 Thanks Normski, well you could probably sense the frustration I was having plotting a route with the BC software, but your video did help me, and somehow (I'm not even sure how 🤔) I managed to sort it. I find it much easier to make up a route on Google My Map - cheers mate 👍