MyRoute-app to BaseCamp Route Waypoints

[Sam Kramer]

Is it possible to convert a MyRoute-app route to a Garmin BaseCamp route, keeping all waypoints intact? If so, would someone please point me towards a video or a description on how to do so? I have been about to import a route, but I lose the waypoints.

[Con Hennekens]

@Sam-Kramer, You can simply export to a GPX file and use that for import in Basecamp. If you loose waypoints, maybe you should use v1.1 instead of v1.2. Be sure to import as a route, not as a track if that option exist. If not, you can probably open the GPX instead of importing it. A GPS contains all waypoints, so if they get lost it is basically a BaseCamp problem.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Sam-Kramer

Why use Basecamp?
You can export the gpx file (1.1 or 1.2) directly to your Zumo.

When you import a route from MRA you get both the route and the track.
However, the route is a direct route and you will have to recalculate and align with the track.

[Sam Kramer]

@Hans-van-de-Ven-MRA-Master
I don’t want to use BaseCamp, but I think that is necessary to bring the route into the BMW Motorrad app that will be running on my cell phone in order to display the route directly on a 2023 BMW R1250RT’s TFT screen, without any external GPS unit hanging on my handlebars. The cell phone will be in the glove compartment, out of sight.

I may be wrong about that, but it is what I can figure out from watching YouTube videos. I ride a Harley-Davidson Road Glide Special with a terrific Boom Box GTX display. I import MyRoute-app routes via a Harley app using Bluetooth. It’s very straightforward and my bike has nothing hanging off it other than the occasional video camera. I am considering a switch to the 1250RT (primarily because it is almost 300 lbs lighter), but most of the BMW videos I’ve seen show a bike with a TFT, a GPS, and a cell phone! I want one display instead of three.

That is why I am trying to figure out BaseCamp; using it as a necessary evil to use only one display. If there is an error to my logic, please explain; I am all ears.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Sam-Kramer

Download the BMW connected app on your phone and download the MRA Mobile app on your phone.
Logon in both apps with your credentials
Open the MRA Mobile app, open the route you want to drive, then click on download end export. Then choose the BMW connected app.

Then you can start the route on your BMW R1250RT TFT

[Sam Kramer]

@Hans-van-de-Ven-MRA-Master
That sounds great, I will give it a try! Thanks!!

[Dikke Wim]

I tested a GPX 1.2 export from MyRoute App and opened it in Basecamp. The via-points and their names are visible. See figures below.

After import you have to "recalculate" the route and what then happens depends on your settings in Basecamp.

As you can see there is a deviation of the route in Basecamp compared to the track (dark grey line which is the correct route). In Basecamp you can adjust the route to the track.

Original route

The waypoint with the correct names

A Map of Basecamp showing the track (dark grey) and the WRONG route"

[Reinhard-32]

@Dikke-Wim Use the GPX 1.1 Format instead of 1.2.

[Dikke Wim]

@Reinhard-32
When I use the GPX 1.1 format the route corresponds much better with the track (intended route) than with GPX 1.2 Unfortunately, all shaping points become visible in the list of the route and the via-point cannot be distinguised. This way you have to search for the via-points by hand and mark them in the route.

In conclusion, both GPX 1.1 and GPX 1.2 have their (own) draw backs

Screendump of route imported as GPX 1.1 showing all the shapingpoints towards the coffee stop. De coffee stop is shown as a 'regular' waypoint, not as a special via point.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Dikke-Wim

Gebruik gpx 1.0 bij de navigator V

[Con Hennekens]

@Dikke-Wim said in MyRoute-app to BaseCamp Route Waypoints:

In conclusion, both GPX 1.1 and GPX 1.2 have their (own) draw backs

That's why they exist both
Why do you want them in Basecamp anyway?

[Sam Kramer]

I am able to transfer my MyRoute-app routes to the BMW Motorrad app and then to the 1250 RT TFT, but in both of them, I don't see the waypoints I made. The display on both my phone's app and on the TFT looks like a completed track, not like a planned route. If I make a route with 42 waypoints, I would like to see the 42 waypoints. Am I missing a step?

Also, in the BMW Motorrad app, there is a submenu where I can select Imported Routes or Planned Routes, or several other items. How do I get a planned route other than importing it? Does BMW have it's own routing software, like MyRoute-app?

Sorry for all the dumb questions. I am a Harley rider that really wants to give the 1250 RT a fair shake, but I'm not finding the audio & display features of the RT close to that of a Harley Boom Box display (no Apple CarPlay!). Please tell me I am wrong. I am looking for a reason to get the RT!

[Sam Kramer]

A post in this forum by Nick Hodge titled "MRA and the BMW Connected App" seems to have answered my question above. I'm going to give that a try.