The Waypoints tab

Select the Waypoints tab from the BioBase trip viewer to view the Waypoint upload tool. The Waypoint upload tool allows you to manage the selected trip by manually adjusting coordinates or adding additional details where data collection was not possible.


A	Upload waypoint link
B	Download waypoint link
C	Delete waypoint group
D	Waypoints or Waypoint Groups
E	The measured distance between Waypoints
F	Checkbox for measuring between Waypoints

Adding new waypoints manually

When the selected trip is displayed in the BioBase trip viewer, you can add up to 1,000 waypoints to any position on the track.

To manually add a new waypoint, right click the preferred position and select Add Waypoint.

Saving a waypoint

Once you marked your waypoint, the Create New Waypoint dialog is displayed. You must enter the Name/Label and a Comment is optional before saving the waypoint. Once saved, the manually added waypoints is listed in the Waypoints tab.

Measuring the distance between 2 waypoints

To Measure the distance between 2 waypoints, click in the box (F shown in the image above) of any 2 waypoints in the same Waypoint Group. Once you have selected the waypoints the distance will be shown and a yellow line will appear in the map between the selected waypoints.

Uploading a *.gpx waypoint file

You can upload a GPS coordinates (*.gpx) file that is generated from your Lowrance or Simrad MFDs to your selected trip in the BioBase trip viewer.

Note: If you have a large number or size of trails in the downloaded .gpx file from your Lowrance device, you may encounter upload issues. We recommend deleting the trails from the .gpx file prior to uploading to BioBase.

Uploading a *.csv waypoint file

You can upload a spreadsheet (*.csv) containing a list of waypoints to your selected trip in the BioBase trip viewer. The *.csv file is only valid if the following requirements are met:

File contains columns headers in the first row.
File contains commas to separate columns.
File does not contain pipe characters ("|").
File contains the required columns with the following named headers:
- Latitude
- Longitude
- ID
- Date
Format of the "date" field is UTC and formatted as:
- MM/dd/yyyy
- MM/dd/yyyy HH.mm.ss
Latitude and Longitude fields are in WGS84 decimal degree (i.e. 47.27203721 or -98.373820272).
File contains a maximum of eight columns (i.e. the four required columns plus a maximum of four additional columns).
The order of the coulmns does not matter as long as the required columns are properly named and present.

The image below is an example of a *.csv spreadsheet:

Downloading waypoints

You can download your waypoints added in the selected trip. Use the Download waypoint Link found in the Waypoint tab to download the waypoints into *.gpx format.

Note: The GPS coordinates listed on the file can be used in your Lowrance or Simrad MFD.

Deleting waypoints

To delete either a waypoint group or individual waypoints, click the black X on the Waypoints tab.