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

[@raymondwright2660]

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

[@normski3091]

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 😅

[@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!

[@normski3091]

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]

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

[@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.

[@normski3091]

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

[@stephenc127]

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

[@normski3091]

Thank you Stephen ... really appreciate that 🤗

[@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.

[@100868ful]

Very helpful,Well done video. Thank you.

[@normski3091]

Thank you Tony🤗

[@SalopianBivvyman]

excellent information, thank

[@normski3091]

Thank you Salopian 🤗

[@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.

[@normski3091]

Ha ha eagle eyes Ian 🤣

[@bobprince1472]

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]

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

[@cozydram1]

as ever norm your educating me thank you

[@normski3091]

Thanks Phil 🤗

[@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.

[@normski3091]

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]

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

[@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!

[@normski3091]

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

[@thomashocker5088]

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

[@thomashocker5088]

@@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]

Absolutely brilliant Thomas, I was scratching my head 🤯

[@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

[@normski3091]

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

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

[@normanhill316]

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 KZbin 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]

@@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]

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??

[@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?

[@normski3091]

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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2nPh56uibiLoqM

[@JBK647]

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

[@pauls4708]

you dont have to LOSE your route if you deviate from your route. You can set your garmin NOT TO RECALCULATE.

[@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.

[@normski3091]

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

[@Oysterseagull]

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

[@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.

[@normski3091]

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

[@stevewolf2620]

What? WHAT?