Fugawi UK Digitial Maps ver 2 workaround?

Could I ask a few questions :-
1) What is contained in the RTE files you wish to transfer to your Etrex 20x?, I'm guessing it contains routes (tracks or Waypoints)
2) Do the RTE files load into Basecamp?.
3) Can the RTE files be converted using GPS Bable?
4) What 'software' did you use with the old Etrex + USB cable and Fugawi software on computer / laptop?

I have found a Data Exchange Guide for Fugawi software, but it is for version 4.5 so it may not be applicable :-
http://www.fugawi.com/web/support/utilities_and_docs/fugawi_data_exchange_guide.pdf

 

Maybe I misunderstood what you are saying, I thought you were saying that you could transfer an RTE file generated by Fugawi containing a route and successfully transfer it to your old Etrex, but that the same procedure does not work with the new Etrex 20x. My question 3) was trying to determine whether you have managed to get GPS babel to accept the RTE file as a valid input file, if so it should be possible to convert the RTE track file into a GPX track file that Basecamp and your Etrex 20x will accept.

Can you upload an RTE file to this thread, if so I can have a go a using GPS babel on it.

No, basecamp won't work with GPSs with a serial COM port, see Garmin link here :-
https://support.garmin.com/support/...caseId={e69a0b50-e2b4-11df-73e5-000000000000}

 

Here are the fields displayed on a route in Basecamp

 

I would export just Latitude / Longitude to an RTE file and then convert that to a GPX file for Garmin Basecamp (rather than a GDB file) all the other fields can be calculated by Basecamp I think

 

I have had a look at your Test.RTE file but have not has much luck with it, all files GPS Babel files I have created with it are zero lenght i.e. an empty file, I can see the contents of the Test.RTE file using a hex viewer, the results are here :-

but I can't see anything useful , it looks like there are possibly 8 waypoints that could form a route but GPS babel versions 1.5.0 and 1.5.2 don't seem to be able to do anything with it.

I would try to use the Fugawi Export >> text file option, at least then we should be able to read the output file and maybe get GPS babel to convert it, GPS babel does seem to be looking for a txt file when you select Fugawi as a input file type.

Could you upload a Fugawi text file (in a zip format) to this thread and then I can have another go at it

 

Just Latitude and Longitude (position) should do it

 

This is what Test2.txt contains :-

Code:

# Latitude, Longitude and UTM coordinates are in WGS84 datum
#
# Each record includes the following fields
#
#    Latitude in decimal degrees (negative is south)
#    Longitude in decimal degrees (negative is west)
53.4661538,-1.5430558
53.4615582,-1.5400927
53.4573377,-1.5411925
53.4533787,-1.5401811
53.4510412,-1.5400557
53.4519091,-1.5320654
53.4532395,-1.5275331
53.4527806,-1.5251288
53.4476476,-1.5227769
53.4423618,-1.5272021
53.4447160,-1.5315422
53.4472521,-1.5364830
53.4494233,-1.5400732
53.4513264,-1.5441183
53.4564544,-1.5452683
53.4625756,-1.5476128

These 16 waypoints can form a route, however, I haven't managed to find a GPS babel setting yet that produces a working GPX

 

I have managed to create a track from the 16 waypoints above, however I did it by manually inserting the co-ordinates into Basecamp, as I still haven't found a way get GPS babel to do it, the closest I got was to get it to produce a GPX file with 6 false and 16 real waypoints, it looks like selecting Latitude and Longitude in Fufawi may not be enough as this only produces waypoints, i.e. 16 individual locations, it won't string them into a track.

Note the attached file isn't a zip file, it has just had '.zip' added to the end of the file name, to use it just edit the file name to remove the '.zip'