create multiple routes

[CasinoKai]

I'm going on a 2 week long trip and have picked a few spots each day to spend time at geting 35-50 park & grabs. What I would like to do instead of trying to enter all the stops one at a time in then gps is to just use my old Garmin dakota 20 as my routing GPS ( I also have a Nuvi 2555LMT I could use).

 

I dont have basecamp and was wondering if there is a way to create and save routes on my computer then download them to the Dakota and use the automotive routing on that? ( I have never used the Dakota's automotive routing feature)

 

Also-does anyone know how close I would have to get to each waypoint/geocache before the Dakota would send me to the next one- I have used my car GPS(nuvi) in the past ( entering one at a time which mans scrolling through hundreds of caches or spelling each) and if I dont drive "OVER" the exact point it will keep sending me there and not on to the next, as you know Caches rarely can be "driven over" but I usually get within 100feet, so I then have to cancel that destination and manually enter the next only to keep repeating that proccedure.

 

So Basicly, on a computer I want to create 14 different routes with Many waypoint(caches) each then upload them to a GPS ( either a Dakota 20 or Nuvi 2555LMT), on each route be able to drive Close to the waypoint(cache) and then have it send me on to the next one.

 

If I am able to create these routes, is there a specifc folder to put them in or name/extension I have to use.

 

Thanks

[+Red90]

Easy enough. Basecamp would be the easiest (it is free). It will put them on the GPS in the correct location.

 

I assume you have a route-able map? If not, you will need to get that first.

[39_Steps]

If you have no objections to using the Nuvi2555 Trip Planner, that is probably the most user friendly way to road route to(near) max of 29 waypoints - sequentially or randomly.

[CasinoKai]

I have a routeable map, but dont want to deal with basecamp.

 

I would be Fine using the Nuvi I would love to be able to just load a file into the NUVI that has the waypoints as a triproute BUT, 1st I dont know how to create such a file (hint) and 2nd as I mentioned If I dont hit that exact point with the NUVI, but am 100' feet away, it wont advance to the next waypoint. Is there a way to tell it to "skip this waypoint and preceed to the next"?

( I would like to create the trip/file on a computer because I dont want to spend 2 days tapping in a couple hundred points/or searching though the 40,000 Poi's already loaded on the NUVI)

[+Red90]

Like I said, it is all possible and easy to do on the computer with Basecamp. You say you won't use it, but want to do everything on a computer. What exactly are you asking from us? You want a suggestion for alternative software?

[alandb]

Your question about "skipping" via points depends on your model of nuvi. On many of the newer nuvi models, route via points can be changed to shaping points which can be skipped. I am not sure about the 2555. It is a 2011 model, so it may not support shaping points.

Edited May 6, 2016 by alandb

[CasinoKai]

Like I said, it is all possible and easy to do on the computer with Basecamp. You say you won't use it, but want to do everything on a computer. What exactly are you asking from us? You want a suggestion for alternative software?

 

I was hoping for something simple such as a way to take a gpx file with the days caches and rename it to whatever name the dakota would use and then copy that to whatever folder the dakota would use.. or find something like POI loader but for trip routes. I did look for a gsak macro but didnt see one.

[CasinoKai]

Your question about "skipping" via points depends on your model of nuvi. On many of the newer nuvi models, route via points can be changed to shaping points which can be skipped. I am not sure about the 2555. It is a 2011 model, so it may not support shaping points.

 

I havent heard about Shaping points, but will check in to that. as with the dakota, I wish I could 'import' a gpx containing my intended caches for the day directly in to a Route

[+Red90]

You can copy a GPX file to the Dakota of waypoints, but that won't make you a route. You can make a route on the Dakota, but it is a lot of work. It is very simple in Basecamp. Select the waypoints and tell it to make a route. It takes seconds.

[+Atlas Cached]

If you are versed in GSAK, and want to create a route for specified group of geocaches, there are macros for this. Go to the GSAK macro index page and type 'route' into the search box, several options are there.