Creating an Event file with Atlogis?

Posted by Ken Gullins on
URL: http://maprun.308.s1.nabble.com/Creating-an-Event-file-with-Atlogis-tp854.html

I don't represent an O club; I'm just a hobbyist having fun so I haven't purchased OCAD. Plus Google Earth is too big to run properly on my computer so it chokes when I try to do anything in GE. I'm trying to create my KML Event file for Check Sites in an app called Canada Maps, from a German company called Atlogis, which I've been using for years and I really like.

I have succeeded in creating a "Route" file in Atlogis which I can export as a KML, so far, so good! I've re-named the first and last points to S1 and F1 as required for CheckSites but this file is not accepted by the MapRun's CheckSites uploader. The error being the S1 and F1. (I assume because the Atlogis KML still uses the original names as S and E despite my renaming them?) Thus my KML file can not be loaded into MapRun's CheckSites and my event cannot be created.

I believe I'm doing everything else right because I did succeed in getting a different KML file to upload. I created this one by exporting it from a working MapRun QuickStart event. Which is kind of dumb but I just wanted to see if it would work!

Does anyone have any suggestions?

And this raises the broader question: Is MapRun intended for amateur hobbyists, such as myself? Or is it targeted strictly to O clubs who know what they're doing and have the proper hardware and software?