Fundamental Help With Basecamp Please

[Cook1e]

Hi Chaps,
It's not the most intuitive software, is it... I've been getting the hang of it slowly but surely, but I am still a bit bamboozled by something that I think should be basic. Would you mind putting an idiot on the right track, please?

If I create a route in Basecamp between points A & B, then tweak the Route Preferences and Avoidances to get the route I want, there are still only 2 waypoints - A & B. If I then transfer this to the Garmin (Zumo 660, if it matters), only points A & B get transferred and the Garmin then calculates the route it thinks, based on it's own settings, preferences and avoidances.

So, I thought I could convert the "tweaked" route in Basecamp into a Track and then transfer the Track to the Garmin, which would then take me the same way as in Basecamp. This doesn't seem to work

Now, I know about setting extra waypoints in Basecamp to make the route go where I want, but that's not my problem. How do I make the Garmin follow the route chosen by Basecamp, even if there are only 2 waypoints?

Hope someone can help

 

[walrus]

I think you have to ensure preferences and settings match on basecamp and 660. Someone who knows what they are talking about will probably give you the right answer soon

 

[Cook1e]

Cheers 'rus, but that would be a pain as I tend to mess about with the prefs for different routes - would need to re-do prefs on Garmin every time. May as well not use Basecamp?

 

[cookie]

do the A to B route in basecamp. get hold of the route by right clicking on it with the cursor and drag it to where you want. this will create a Via point which is transferred to the gps with the route. repeat until the route goes where you want.

i don't bother with Avoidances.

 

[Cook1e]

Ta Mr c, I know that one and use it when I know just where I want to go. But in this case, what I'd like to do is make the Garmin follow the same route as Basecamp has plotted, without having to manually define each waypoint.

The reason I want to do this is that the routes I am working out in Basecamp are in France, in areas that I am not familiar with. I figure that if I let Basecamp work out (for example) the shortest route avoiding unpaved roads, it will do better than me guessing where the waypoints should be.

What if I convert to a track and then back to a route? That seems to put many waypoints in the re-converted route.

To put another way for clarification, if Basecamp calculates a route from A to B (2 waypoints only), then I convert this to a track and back to a route, I get a new route with as many waypoints as I choose (or about 500 if I let Basecamp choose.

This works, but it seems very clunky.

Am I making sense or missing something basic? (I suspect the latter )

 

[cookie]

what I'd like to do is make the Garmin follow the same route as Basecamp has plotted, without having to manually define each waypoint.

i'd like that too, but AFAIK it's not possible on the new garmins. to my mind, it defeats a lot of the point of route planning on a computer

used to work fine on my old 2610

i can't help with tracks. i've never used them.

 

[Bumpkin]

It gets it approximately right most of the time. Best to stick in a few extra routing nodes to make sure, that's what I do.

Plotted this years trip to the Vosges mountains in Basecamp and following my usual practices I would say that it's no less reliable that Mapsource.

There are a few Basecamp tutorial videos on my Youtube channel that you might find useful.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

used to work fine on my old 2610

Still a cracking bike GPS

 

[Bumpkin]

used to work fine on my old 2610

Agree with above, great GPS. SP2720 pretty good as well, putting mine on eBay soon

It's more Basecamp and it's activity profiles that are the issue. If you use Mapsource and disable the avoidances (see video named 'Correcting Motorcycling Activity Profile - Basecamp & Zumo' in my post above) then everything should be, roughly, as it was with 2610.

If you do the same with Basecamp, disabling the pre-set avoidances for each activity profile (leaving any you might have set on the device), then the result will be broadly similar.