You don’t need to know what any of the gobbledygook means. I certainly don’t. All you need to do is enjoy YOUR device / BaseCamp / lap top and let others enjoy THEIR choices.
Basecamp - So what if it’s no longer supported?
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You don’t need to know what any of the gobbledygook means. I certainly don’t. All you need to do is enjoy YOUR device / BaseCamp / lap top and let others enjoy THEIR choices.
I’ve no idea what others use. Some do however seem particularly keen on claiming Basecamp, city navigator maps etc are not going to work. They do.You don’t need to know what any of the gobbledygook means. I certainly don’t. All you need to do is enjoy YOUR device / BaseCamp / lap top and let others enjoy THEIR choices.
Basecamp is version 4.7.5 on mine which is covered 2008 - 2023 in the about tab
Just updated my Nav6 to City Navigator 2026.10
Maps loaded to the PC as well
Works as it should.....I like Basecamp...never let me down all over UK & Europe in the last 12 years
Just updated my Nav6 to City Navigator 2026.10
Maps loaded to the PC as well
Works as it should.....I like Basecamp...never let me down all over UK & Europe in the last 12 years
Why some on here are wanting to use something past its end of life is beyond me.
But people can use what they want, they just cannot complain when they get lost
For clarity my car is a 2013 model with an 8" built in Sat Nav, I've owned the car 8 years and never updated the thing, so I should be getting lost all the time, but surprisingly I don't.
But people can use what they want, they just cannot complain when they get lost
For clarity my car is a 2013 model with an 8" built in Sat Nav, I've owned the car 8 years and never updated the thing, so I should be getting lost all the time, but surprisingly I don't.
I don’t think they move the roads very often to be honest. They’re pretty much where they were before sat navs were invented.Why some on here are wanting to use something past its end of life is beyond me.
But people can use what they want, they just cannot complain when they get lost
For clarity my car is a 2013 model with an 8" built in Sat Nav, I've owned the car 8 years and never updated the thing, so I should be getting lost all the time, but surprisingly I don't.
Apart from when you ride a new road and your sat nav is impressed with your riding skills, when It thinks your off road riding through long grass and rivers at 50mphI don’t think they move the roads very often to be honest. They’re pretty much where they were before sat navs were invented.
In the UK perhaps. Elsewhere new roads and junctions seem to appear quicker than the new maps can keep up with. As @Barnoe says above it's not unusual to find yourself ploughing a furrow through a field at 90kphI don’t think they move the roads very often to be honest. They’re pretty much where they were before sat navs were invented.
It is very simple. People should use whatever software and GPS devices they like.
On the ‘Roads don’t change’ topic: Whilst the bulk of roads do not change too much for much of the populace, they do for others. Here’s a very current example, where the soon to be opened and very large Silvertown tunnel under the Thames (arguably potentially affecting in excess of 8,000,000 people) is starting to appear:
When open, the tunnel (along with the existing Blackwall tunnel) will be tolled. That data will appear on new maps, too. This will avoid the angst suffered by many bikermates on these pages who moan that they got ripped off because they didn’t know and / or don’t understand ULEZ or congestion charges and blame Garmin for having to pay a fee.
Of course, if bods refuse to go to London, they won’t give two fucks about a new road tunnel. But that’s an arguably childish response, as they’ll give two fucks when they ask their satnav for the fastest way to Rotterdam for their ferry in an emergency, as their old map will ignore the brand new motorway and route them up a goat track. They’ll also probably scream blue murder when their old map, directs them headlong into an oncoming lorry, as their map didn’t know it was now a one way street. That will be bloody Garmin’s fault, too….. as usual.
Have a great day all.
On the ‘Roads don’t change’ topic: Whilst the bulk of roads do not change too much for much of the populace, they do for others. Here’s a very current example, where the soon to be opened and very large Silvertown tunnel under the Thames (arguably potentially affecting in excess of 8,000,000 people) is starting to appear:
When open, the tunnel (along with the existing Blackwall tunnel) will be tolled. That data will appear on new maps, too. This will avoid the angst suffered by many bikermates on these pages who moan that they got ripped off because they didn’t know and / or don’t understand ULEZ or congestion charges and blame Garmin for having to pay a fee.
Of course, if bods refuse to go to London, they won’t give two fucks about a new road tunnel. But that’s an arguably childish response, as they’ll give two fucks when they ask their satnav for the fastest way to Rotterdam for their ferry in an emergency, as their old map will ignore the brand new motorway and route them up a goat track. They’ll also probably scream blue murder when their old map, directs them headlong into an oncoming lorry, as their map didn’t know it was now a one way street. That will be bloody Garmin’s fault, too….. as usual.
Have a great day all.
Yup just opened and very useful indeed to skirt around Rotterdam…
If headed east directly. If south no difference as old motorway is still needed
The point of the motorway extension was for cargo traffic from Rotterdam into the Rhine/Ruhr area of Germany…
Anyway I digress and it’s off topic.
If Mods want to move this to travel as tip for using the Rotterdam crossing fine by me
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The best one was when Gamin split their maps into Northern and Southern Europe. Folk left the Eurotunnel shuttle in Calais and had little or no France.
Anyone who had updated Garmin Express before updating their maps was OK.
Garmin devices became "sh*te" overnight.
Anyone who had updated Garmin Express before updating their maps was OK.
Garmin devices became "sh*te" overnight.
FAT file size limit.
4 GB
Cock up by Garmin, mended via a patch. I think it took them two goes.
Ha! I made up the example, as I had no idea there is a new motorway around Rotterdam.
It has though made my point exactly. I had no idea the new road was there and, had I not updated a GPS device’s maps, it wouldn’t know about it either.
New road updates; who needs ‘em? Roads don’t change! I read it here.
My XT still has North & South.
Each file < 4gb
Indeed it does.
It was Garmin’s glitch / bug in a map update at the time which caused some devices (not all) to load only the northern section of Europe. I recall Nutty (amongst others) falling foul of it and calling me in some distress in the hope of me mending it remotely. He was sadly disappointed.
Ah. I never suffered that.
Neither did I, but lots did.
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