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Tracks 4 Africa on my Garmin.. A couple of questions
I've searched, but not found anybody posting about this issue, so hopefully someone can help..
So I've got T4A loaded onto my Garmin Nuvi50 and I'm putting waypoints and tracks and the like onto Basecamp and transferring them over to the Garmin and getting confirmation that it's there and it's displaying as being on the unit, but when I look, I can see one hotel that I plotted as a waypoint, but I can't figure out how to find my routes or my tracks?
Anybody have experience with all of this? Also I'm surprised at how little detail T4A has for Moroccan cities as a whole..
Appreciate any advice..
Here is a pic of what I'm working with:
If I "View Map" on the Garmin, I can find the hotel in Fes that I made a waypoint, but I can't find my routes at all. Also is it possible to search for my waypoints a better way?
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Everything I've been reading references Mapsource which from what I'm seeing doesn't work with Macs.. :confused1:
I really wanted to sort most of this out before I headed to Morocco!!
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I think I've read elsewhere in this forum that T4A is not a great map for Maroc - it seems to be more regarded for further south in Africa.
Also, in here you will find that "Olaf" mapping is recommended for Morocco and some folks like OSM (see the sticky in here).
As for routing with a Garmin: I haven't got very far with that, much as you describe ( http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...sing-osm-68591)
Hopefully some one who knows more about Garmin/Nuvi can answer that bit.
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The main reason there's not much info on places etc in Morocco is that nobody has sent any info in to T4A.
The maps are built on actual travellers information.
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Originally Posted by mrsgemini
The main reason there's not much info on places etc in Morocco is that nobody has sent any info in to T4A.
The maps are built on actual travellers information.
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Yep, I think this could be because T4A are based in, or near, South Africa - therefore their client base will tend to be travelling down that way.
Chris Scott recommends Olaf maps for Morocco, but all that can be found in the Maroc forum.
ajctraveler,
Very interested to learn how you get on with your Nuvi. There are so many different Garmin models! 
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A nuvi cannot import tracks unless you rename them the same way as the nuvi produces them itself. Mostly something like activelog001 etc.
Routes show only when activated.
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A nuvi cannot import tracks unless you rename them the same way as the nuvi produces them itself. Mostly something like activelog001 etc.
Routes show only when activated.
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Hmmmmmm, maybe I have to go back to Basecamp and see what I was doing in there in a bit more detail in terms of what the files are called.
As for "Routes show only when activated" I am not sure what this means- activated in the Nuvi? and, if so, then how? (I did try it a while back and I couldn't find a simple, test route that I thought I had uploaded to my Garmin from the Basecamp software.
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You don't need to be in or around South Africa to add to the T4A data base. Go to their web site and find out how you can help.
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A nuvi cannot import tracks unless you rename them the same way as the nuvi produces them itself. Mostly something like activelog001 etc.
Routes show only when activated.
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I'm still not sure what "routes activated" means, but I have looked in basecamp and my data is labelled as follows:-
route.gpx, route0.gpx, route1, gpx etc
Track.gpx, Track0.gpx, Track1.gpx etc
Waypoints.gpx, Waypoints0.gpx, Waypoints1.gpx etc
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What you have to do is to open a track file and look to the names given by the nuvi to a recorded track. If you put files withe the same name they will show. You have to set the preferences of the nuvi on show all tracks if possible to switch on/off on this device. I don't know specs of all nuvi's but there is a manual in PDF on the device itself where you will find the specs of this specific device.
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Jervig,
Thanks for those pointers: looking in the file structure in the internal memory of the Nuvi, there are routes files with lower case names that belong to the previous owner of the Nuvi and they are in "English" i.e. I have not generated those file names and each of the file names consist of something that gives a clue about the route that each one covers (I can't copy them from the file lists or I would cut and paste them into here).
And, there are newer ones that I think I must have made in basecamp and then exported to the GPS - those consist of random numbers and letters, all in upper case, and all beginning with GC. All of them consist of 7 digits in the file name except one which has 6 digits.
Everyone of them is a .gpx file; lower case, or upper case, as outlined above.
With the Nuvi hooked up to basecamp, all of these routes show OK in that software.
I'll spend a bit more time with the Nuvi 205W in standalone mode to see what shows up there.
Apologies to ajctraveler for stealing your thread. 
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What you have to do is to open a track file and look to the names given by the nuvi to a recorded track.
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I took my Nuvi for a drive today and it recorded the track as an "active log" name when showing in basecamp with the date and time to differentiate between the outbound journey and the return; both of these went into the internal memory of the Nuvi and I think this is a first because all of my earlier tracks have definitely been kept in the SD card.
Within the memory the data is in the folder garmin/gpx with the file name "current.gpx" (it has to be this file because it is the only one in there apart from the map).
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I'm still not sure what "routes activated" means, but I have looked in basecamp and my data is labelled as follows:-
route.gpx, route0.gpx, route1, gpx etc
Track.gpx, Track0.gpx, Track1.gpx etc
Waypoints.gpx, Waypoints0.gpx, Waypoints1.gpx etc
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Following my experience above - of data going into the internal memory for the first time (to my knowledge) - I have deleted all of the above routes and tracks, just keeping the waypoints; this gives me a "clean sheet" to contiinue monitoring where data is stored and with what file names.
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On my 60CX there is somewheres in the set up that determines where the tracks go - either on the card or memory. You might find the same buried somewheres? Think there was also something about when it gets full as to what to do.
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On my 60CX there is somewheres in the set up that determines where the tracks go - either on the card or memory. You might find the same buried somewheres? Think there was also something about when it gets full as to what to do.
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Thanks for the ideas! I have tried every menu item I can find in the Nuvi (there are not that many actually) and I have read the information contained inside it - I guess that is the user manual, although it is very basic.
I haven't found anything that tells me how to control what the Nuvi does with its' internal memory viz a viz a SD card; the only control I have is to remove the card basically.
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Within the memory the data is in the folder garmin/gpx with the file name "current.gpx" (it has to be this file because it is the only one in there apart from the map).
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After another week of travelling and experimenting with this Nuvi, all of the track log data is definitely going into just the one file, as named above; the file "current.gpx" is growing in size each time I use the GPS.
(There is one other file in that folder, "temp.gpx", but its' size has not changed).
As for routing, I've commented in here about how the Nuvi performs.
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...-220-gps-69026
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