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First of probably many questions re Basecamp, from a beginner, starting with how to install it.
1st attempt on IPad - not compatible with this device.
2nd attempt on MacBook Pro - You need to install Rosetta. Do I ? If I do will I then be able to plan routes, and export to my Nav 6?
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Rosetta is the part of MacOS that lets you run older (Intel) software. Just accept the installation requests.

Said that, Basecamp has been abandoned and is no longer actively developed and/or supported. It still works on Mac, but there a few bugs here and there and it will just keep getting worse.

I still greatly prefer it to MRA (I have MRA Gold) as it will be faster and I find it easier to use (once you know it), but might not be a wise time investment to learn a software that might be completely dead on modern computers in maybe a year or two.
 
er-minio said:
Rosetta is the part of MacOS that lets you run older (Intel) software. Just accept the installation requests.

Said that, Basecamp has been abandoned and is no longer actively developed and/or supported. It still works on Mac, but there a few bugs here and there and it will just keep getting worse.

I still greatly prefer it to MRA (I have MRA Gold) as it will be faster and I find it easier to use (once you know it), but might not be a wise time investment to learn a software that might be completely dead on modern computers in maybe a year or two.
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Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I’ll have a look at both options.
 
I do and have been using Basecamp for many, many years. Apparently it’s not going to be supported for much longer. What that means in reality I don’t know. Will it still work but not be updated? Maybe. Will it just stop working? I hope not.
I have looked at My Route App and Calimoto. They’re pretty good but hardly progress from Basecamp.
I’ve just updated Basecamp to 26 something so it appears to be still up to date.
Just play with Basecamp it is very, very easy to use. Just click on start point then use the pencil icon to pick out your route.
Any routes you create can be kept or shared with other users.
The advantage over the likes of google maps etc is the benefit of having endless shaping points along the route. As far as I can remember google maps only allows 10 points for shaping.
I don’t have a Mac type of computer so cannot comment on how Basecamp works on them but it works very easily on my laptop. The Mac type of computer doesn’t seem to be very good but Basecamp works very well on my old laptop.
My Zumo 660 is at least 12 years old and my 760 camper is around 5 years old. Both can have routes sent to them. Just updated the maps on both of them this evening without resorting swearing at them or calling for help.
Both have worked as advertised since buying them. I hope Garmin do continue to update Basecamp but if not I will continue to use the current version for as long as possible.
 
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Garmin have only ever offered token support for Macs. It's a bit of a faff even to connect the device sometimes.

The optimist in me is hoping that the reason for abandoning Basecamp (which let's face it looks like something from Windows XP :D) is that they've re-written it from the ground up and have made a beautiful and fully featured multi-platform program.

The realist in me thinks they'll possibly be moving it to the cloud and making it subscription based.
 
Akulaking said:
Not heard of MRA but just Googled and looks interesting. Can routes be sent to the Nav 6 with this?
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They can. Much easier to use MRA than that Basecamp rubbish.
I'm a new MRA user and it's easy to use. So much so that that I'm using it more than TomTom planner.
 
siddo said:
They can. Much easier to use MRA than that Basecamp rubbish.
I'm a new MRA user and it's easy to use. So much so that that I'm using it more than TomTom planner.
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Weird isn’t it. I’ve been using Basecamp for many years and find it much more user friendly than the MRA and far easier to send routes to my Zumo 660. I find plotting routes on MRA much more of a faff. On Basecamp I just put the start point in then drag the route to whichever route I want it to follow. On MRA and calimoto I seem to have to put start and end points in, the app then picks its own preferred route and to change it I need to put in points I want it to follow.
I’ve not heard of Tom Tom planner as I wasn’t aware that Tom Tom had any form of route planning.
 
On MRA you can plan a route in a similar manner to how it is done in Basecamp with the segment tool.

Instead of using the segment tool, in MRA you place the first waypoint (flag) and the place all the subsequent ones till the end of said route. MRA will mark the waypoints in the middle as shaping points.

You can do start/end and drag, but can lead to confusion imho.

Apart from that, I agree, i find the file management in MRA fairly convoluted (reminiscent of early 2000s web software), you can only manage one route per file (I know you can reference other files but it's a faff) and I still greatly prefer using BC (it's faster).

In my experience, and considering the way I am used to plan routes and/or tracks, I operate faster with BC.
But I find MRA very useful when doing the initial planning as i can overlay viaMichelin layers.
I keep using both for now.

Sadly, I think the only alternative to BC Garmin is working on is Explore and that has already proven to be sub-par. :D

There is, apparently, a big MRA overhaul underway. We'll see.
 
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siddo said:
They can. Much easier to use MRA than that Basecamp rubbish.
I'm a new MRA user and it's easy to use. So much so that that I'm using it more than TomTom planner.
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I was asked this by a friend recently - how do you transfer routes from MRA to a NAV 6, or to rephrase the question, can you transfer said routes without using a computer (he’s having difficulty getting his MacBook to connect to the Nav 6)
 
Akulaking said:
Seems there’s plenty of info in the above thread for Mac users. Are you saying it’s much easier on a Windows device?
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as some of the comments demonstrate, people with Macs have problems

most of the threads on here relating to Basecamp and Garmin Express problems seem to be from Mac users. More often their Mac refusing to talk to a Garmin device. You can be a whizz with Basecamp but that skill is not much use if you can't actually use the end product on your satnav.

This is not something I have experience on a succession of laptops with Windows XP to 10 over the years.
 
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