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GPS Navigation
- Basecamp
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- Training Videos
- GPS Visualizer
- Free Maps for Garmin
- Topo Maps
- Displaying your Trips
- Videos for your GPS
- Videos on Tracks and Routes
- Creating a route by clicking on the map in Basecamp
- Convert a track to a route in Basecamp
- Creating a folder structure for your Trips
- Transferring maps and data to and from Basecamp
- GPS – Video #1
- Getting your computer organized and copying files from your GPS Unit to your computer
- Creating a folder for ATV TRIPS Creating folders for each ATV Trip in ATV TRIPS For example June 4-2015-Paldi to Mt Brenton
Date with short description In Basecamp Creating Lists- Original Tracks Routes Waypoints Photos
Departure Areas- Paldi Shutz Falls George’s Place Mesachie
Dragging files from Garmin folder to ATV folder
- GPS – Video #2
- Importing files from PC to Garmin Basecamp, editing gpx file, and saving a kml file
Import to Departure List Edit gpx file Remove any lines from departure area to your home- Use s for select Use x for trimming
Difference between kmz and kml files Saving a kml file
- GPS – Video #3
Creating Routes Creating a Route from a Track Problems- May want to modify the orginal track and it’s hard to do Even when picking Direct Route still snaps back to roads Works quite well Can pick your points where you change direction
Creating a Route in Basecamp Problem Creating a new Track in Basecamp and converting to a Route Advantages
- GPS– Video #4
- Creating a track in Google Earth
- Creating a track in Google Earth
- Save the track as a kml file
- Import track into Basecamp
- Edit track in Basecamp
- Convert track to a route
ATVing in the Cowichan Valley
Cowichan Valley ATV Club 