I connected my GPS, and transferred the GPX into it.

I got an idea, and had it import the GPX that was produced by RunKeeper. It’s $74, but has good topo map support, and would get aerial imagery and overlay it. One good program that had promise was ExpertGPS. These didn’t do a good job of letting me edit, or they didn’t produce a good altitude plot, or there was some other problem. I played around with a number of other GPS programs, including those that support GPX files, such as Google Earth, and Open Street Maps. So to the Garmin corporation, a general observation: you suck. It also keeps me from viewing downloaded GPS tracks to “preview” hikes. MapSource/Basecamp does this pretty well, but again, only for tracks downloaded from a Garmin GPS.īTW, the issue with MapSource/Basecamp not importing GPX data is clearly an administrative decision made by Garmin. When a GPS unit loses lock, or is turned off, you need to be able to edit the track information to join segments due to signal loss, or delete spurious track pieces that are generated during the GPS unit startup). So I need a function to separate the single GPS track into two. I found out from my hike yesterday that when you use Runkeeper, and use the pause function, then restart the app again (we hiked a loop, paused Runkeeper, drove to another trail, restarted Runkeeper and hiked that loop), the uploaded tracks are joined on the Runkeeper website. BUT: I discovered quickly that MapSource/Basecamp only accepts tracks from Garmin GPSs, not general GPX files. I use my Samsung Galaxy S3 with the Runkeeper app in that case, which uploads GPS tracks to the Runkeeper website, and can export GPX files. They asked for $15 donations, I sent them $50.īut occasionally I forget to bring my Garmin GPS. They ran $50 PER STATE! I found a project that had digitized maps for all states (and a lot of international locations) and converted them into the format needed by MapSource/Basecamp. One thing I didn’t like was Garmin wanting huge dollars for topo maps. Both would extract GPS tracks with relative ease. Eventually MapSource was replaced by Garmin Basecamp. The unit came with Garmin MapSource, which I used for several years exclusively. I use a Garmin GPS-60 when I backpack or hike.

Export expert gps to garmin