keithy wrote:A plus with Basecamp is that if you already have a Garmin routeable map on your Garmin handheld, you can use that map as the baselayer (but the device has to be connected to the MAC when Basecamp is running). Then you can use the routing on the Garmin map to route on-road. Off roads, you will have to trace a route yourself.
If you still want to use google, you can still do it with the MyMaps, and create the route and then export it in KML format but then you have to use a converter like GPSies, or I use GPSBabel to convert it to GPX and then check it on Basecamp before copying it to the GPS.
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Thanks.
RidewithGPS is more useful to me than MyMaps as I can switch between OSM variations and Google and still export it in various forms, including into Basecamp to finish off. I am playing with Basecamp for a specific ride of the Holland Track at the moment. Still learning with it.
What I think I will do is work out the route in RidewithGPS then export to Basecamp to add the waypoints (campsites, features, water sources etc). Then from Basecamp to the GPS.
Http://gpsies.com was to clunky for me last night; maybe my Internet connection but it differently not as polished as RidewithGPS but then RidewithGPS does not allow waypoints by coordinates. Trade-offs I guess.