• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

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Hey folks,
I am new to GPS units on motorcycles (currently learning to use a Dakota 20), but thought I would start a thread dedicated to Basecamp information. I am very green when it comes to Basecamp software but see that it could be extremely handy for ADV riders. If you have favorite maps, tutorials, links, or any other Basecamp/navigation related info please post it up here. As I learn a little more about how to use the software I will post some of my favorite rides near Pisgah National Forest. Right now the biggest deterrent to doing this is RAIN :( I can't seem to get out for a ride to log in the GPS...
 
I have been using Basecamp recently/daily and the new version allows viewing in Google earth. G-Raster is a additional piece of software that makes slices of the images embedded in a KMZ file for better use in the Garmin.
http://moagu.com/?page_id=155

I grab maps from any pdf files or images I find online and then create KMZ files on Google Earth with image overlays, then slice in G-Raster, which re-saves a new KMZ, and drop into Basecamp.
 
I've used BaseCamp, it's predecessor MapSource, StreetAtlas, Microsoft Streets & Trips, and variety of others. I'm firmly in the Microsoft Streets and Trips ($19.95 these days) camp for ease of use and route visualization. That said I usually use it for either for hard core competitive scavenger hunts mostly on paved roads using the wonderful utility of colorized and different shape pushpins...so I've developed a very ritualized process that doesn't bank on complimentary internet access for things. That and I've use companion utilities of Excel for waypoint naming and GPSU to bridge any gaps when it comes to uploading data to the GPS.

For BaseCamp....I've just never been able to like Garmin's stuff for software...even after I wade through their Byzantine process for map activation or get over the idea of having to have your GPS connected and powered while you use it. Bleh and bleh!

If I had consistent internet access I've found Google Maps a pretty-good tool when set to bicycle or hiking mode for off-road ADV use..although haven't gotten the whole .KML file to a GPS waypoint routine consistently down. The price is certainly right though.
 
This is a good start for me, thanks folks! Work is picking up again right now, and there are a ton of little items around the new house that need attention, but I will start wading through the advice above.
 
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