Help wanted- Basecamp & Nav V

[Liberator]

I've just upgraded to Basecamp and a Nav V, from Mapsource and a series of earlier Garmins. I have put my saved waypoints in Basecamp into various lists, which I assume is the same as using "Categories" in Mapsource. When I transfer these lists to the Nav V, they do not appear as separate lists - all the waypoints are jumbled together. Am I doing something wrong or missing a trick somewhere down the line?

 

[Sleepy]

Basecamp isn't an upgrade, go back to Mapsource...

 

[Liberator]

Wish I could have stayed with Mapsource, but Mapsource stopped recognizing any of my devices. When I spoke to Garmin about it they said Mapsource isn't supported any more - plus my Garmins were too old to be supported as well. So i didn't have much choice in the matter.

 

[RedRick Esq.]

Happy to try and help but first of all why do you want loads of way points stored in your Nav V ?

if you have your way points etc on basecamp you should only need to use them for creating a route which you then transfer to the device.

As a starting point though in the upper left hand pane of basecamp you will have "my collection" and what i have in there are folders that i have created to store routes and way points in You can name these folders anything you like) and from these i drag and drop or copy and paste into any new routes that i am creating (this is in the lower left pane of basecamp) and when the route is done I just transfer it to the device although i tend to use the way points as shaping points so it keeps the route simple. there is a huge thread on here somewhere about the difference between way points and shaping points. and this will become essential to you later on your journey of NAV 5 discovery !

Make sure that you have basecamp and the unit on the same updates and with the same settings

 

[daesimps]

In early versions of Basecamp the lists did equate to categories but that disappeared in later versions.

If you open up a waypoint in Basecamp (double click on it) there is a categories tab where you can add your own categories for waypoints. These will transfer to the Zumo when you send the waypoint to it.

 

[daesimps]

This is the category tab I referred to earlier.

 

[Liberator]

Thanks daesimps. That's answered my query - it works just as I wanted it to. I am not using these waypoints as part of a route but as individual destinations for a club competition. Brilliant, thanks again.

 

[daesimps]

Thanks daesimps. That's answered my query - it works just as I wanted it to. I am not using these waypoints as part of a route but as individual destinations for a club competition. Brilliant, thanks again.

No problem. In the earlier releases any waypoints were automatically categorised with a name that matched the list(s) that they waypoint was in in Basecamp. That featured then disappeared in one of the updates.

 

[chrisjk]

In addition, you can also still organise POIs on the unit as before. I have folders of POIs for stuff like cafes, bike services etc. I store these in regular directories on my computer and use the Garmin POI loader to transfer them.

Basecamp is OK as a repository for a limited amount of data (routes, tracks, waypoints etc) but too much and it starts to bog down so I try to limit what I keep in there and have a number of small Basecamp data bases rather than one big one.

To keep stuff separated on transfer to the unit, you can highlight a single individual item and transfer the "selected user data" rather than a list containing several items.