I love MyRoute

[JonnyBravo]

Love it when people post MRA routes - literally a quick tap - app opens on your phone and you can review the route in detail.
App is worth every penny.
My go to.
Garmin days are long gone.

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I have started you a fresh thread, in case the fellow’s ‘planning’ of his holiday turns into a debate over the virtues (or otherwise) of MyRoute.

Richard

 

[Arsey]

Love it when people post MRA routes - literally a quick tap - app opens on your phone and you can review the route in detail.
App is worth every penny.
My go to.
Garmin days are long gone.

Agreed . MRA is genius . Ditched my XT over five years ago . Never again !

 

[Rasher]

Agreed . MRA is genius . Ditched my XT over five years ago . Never again !

I love MRA, so easy and intuitive, multiple map over;ays that have various pro's and cons (Michelin for Green routes and generally clear) Google for seeing whats along the route, click a button and you get street view integrated....

....But I still find running the route on an XT is better, the route gives me more info options, distance / time to next stop / journey's end, bigger screen and the ability to clearly see the track overlayed with the route, but I use MRA on the phone in the car for convenience and these days it is pretty damn good, and if you have a large phone and a really good mount that won't fuck up your expensive phone then great, but I buy cheaper phones and the top rated mounts with the anti-vibration and inbuilt power / charging cost almost as much as an XT when they appear on a special deal....

...Also means I have a "backup device" if one were to blow up, and my (admittedly mid-range) phone gets really hot running MRA (or any intensive app)

 

[grantmac]

MRA is indeed a great alternative to Garmin established by a couple of Dutch computer geeks one of whom lives a few miles up ‘t’ road from me. I had the pleasure of catching up with him in the early days when they were just starting out. …….
BUT….it still relies on your phone or tablet to translate routes ito a navigation device so either you use your phone or you buy a Chigee or Capuride unit. Great thing is you don't have to cart your laptop around with you in case you need to change your route mid tour…..

 

[glenn2926]

Love it when people post MRA routes - literally a quick tap - app opens on your phone and you can review the route in detail.
App is worth every penny.
My go to.
Garmin days are long gone.

What? You pay for it? Why? Just why? Basecamp is free and much, much easier to use.

 

[JonnyBravo]

What? You pay for it? Why? Just why? Basecamp is free and much, much easier to use.

Don’t be a dick …..

 

[Bravo]

Much easier than getting a route on the Nav 5

 

[glenn2926]

Don’t be a dick …..

Tried mra and it’s certainly not as easy to use as Basecamp. Also the route created in mra cannot be sent to my garmin. So not much use to me.
You seem to be advocating paying for a mapping system that is not as good as the free one I currently use.

 

[wilbjr21]

Tried mra and it’s certainly not as easy to use as Basecamp. Also the route created in mra cannot be sent to my garmin. So not much use to me.
You seem to be advocating paying for a mapping system that is not as good as the free one I currently use.

That is incorrect - or are you trying to be contrary ?

 

[siddo]

Tried mra and it’s certainly not as easy to use as Basecamp. Also the route created in mra cannot be sent to my garmin. So not much use to me.
You seem to be advocating paying for a mapping system that is not as good as the free one I currently use.

Why can't you send MRA routes to your Garmin? I send them to mine easy enough.

 

[grantmac]

Tried mra and it’s certainly not as easy to use as Basecamp. Also the route created in mra cannot be sent to my garmin. So not much use to me.
You seem to be advocating paying for a mapping system that is not as good as the free one I currently use.

Had the same view in the beginning. Nothing was going to get me off my Garmin and Basecamp “addiction”
But now that i am used to both am pretty happy with the MRA apps. Yes I paid about € 80 if I recall for lifetime gold membership about 5 years ago….
Used MRA first time on my Chigee AIO 6 last year and found it very easy.
Basecamp still has its advantages but i wouldn't say one is better than the other. MRA is so much easier to make routes on. Phone or ipad is all thats needed, no more lugging around my lap top if i want to make changes and thats reason enough for me.

 

[er-minio]

Also the route created in mra cannot be sent to my garmin.

As I wrote previously on these pages, I am not a massive fan of MRA (I tested it with a paid Gold subscription for a few months), but you can send the routes to any Garmin GPX and MRA also provides different type of GPX export, along with the explanation of what that entails based on different GPS devices/brands.

To be pedantic, if people wanna play that game, Basecamp is not free. Its development cost is subsidized by Garmin's hardware sales (and its roadmap affected by those too). Reminder: it is also - for the millionth time - no longer actively developed or maintained. In software parlance it means that, sadly, at some point it will stop working properly on modern machines.

Signed, another (current) happy Basecamp user.

MRA has a few very useful features (easy sharing/embedding and Michelin map layer being a couple) I appreciated.

There is (or should be), usually, a variety of software to cater for a variety of use cases. People choose what they prefer or is better for their workflow.

Nothing was going to get me off my Garmin and Basecamp “addiction”

"Lock-in". It's called lock-in
One egregious example (or, at least, one I lived previously) was the migration from Quark's Xpress to Adobe's inDesign back in the day, in print software.

 

[Arsey]

Tried mra and it’s certainly not as easy to use as Basecamp. Also the route created in mra cannot be sent to my garmin. So not much use to me.
You seem to be advocating paying for a mapping system that is not as good as the free one I currently use.

You really talk some utter bollox

 

[glenn2926]

Why can't you send MRA routes to your Garmin? I send them to mine easy enough.

On basecamp there is a send to device. Just click it and the route is on the device. Done. No saving to this or that, no changing format literally send to device. Mra doesn’t have that feature so for me it’s not as easy as basecamp. Why would I want to complicate it?

 

[siddo]

On basecamp there is a send to device. Just click it and the route is on the device. Done. No saving to this or that, no changing format literally send to device. Mra doesn’t have that feature so for me it’s not as easy as basecamp. Why would I want to complicate it?

Only trying to help. I find it simple, as it is.

 

[grantmac]

On basecamp there is a send to device. Just click it and the route is on the device. Done. No saving to this or that, no changing format literally send to device. Mra doesn’t have that feature so for me it’s not as easy as basecamp. Why would I want to complicate it?

Yes, you´re right on that front. However with the MRA app there´s no sending anything to anything. If you´re using your phone or Chigee, the routes Sync themselves and as soon as you open the route in MRA on whatever you want to use as navigation hardware its already there.
I would ask however on sharing. I believe on a Garmin device then its easy to bluetooth the route over whilst on the go. For MRA it s more complex as you have to ´´invite´´ friends to join your profile so sharing basecamp files when on the go with fellow Garmin / NAV users is easier

 

[casbar]

On basecamp there is a send to device. Just click it and the route is on the device. Done. No saving to this or that, no changing format literally send to device. Mra doesn’t have that feature so for me it’s not as easy as basecamp. Why would I want to complicate it?

Funny that, it does to my Garmin. MRA save to drive app, which then sends via bluetooth to my Garmin XT.

 

[Arsey]

Yes, you´re right on that front. However with the MRA app there´s no sending anything to anything. If you´re using your phone or Chigee, the routes Sync themselves and as soon as you open the route in MRA on whatever you want to use as navigation hardware its already there.
I would ask however on sharing. I believe on a Garmin device then its easy to bluetooth the route over whist on the go. For MRA it s more complex as you have to ´´invite´´ friends to join your profile so sharing basecamp files when on the go with fellow Garmin / NAV users is easier

Agreed.
MRA is brilliant and so user friendly. I gave up on Basecamp years ago as it was utter shite with unnecessary layers and crap user interface . Subsequently ditched Garmin when I sold my XT after doing a trip running the XT and MRA on phone side by side .
You can now get an Aoocci CarPlay unit for £70 and they are pretty much faultless. Why would you pay SIX times that for an XT3 ?

 

[Berin]

On basecamp there is a send to device. Just click it and the route is on the device. Done. No saving to this or that, no changing format literally send to device. Mra doesn’t have that feature so for me it’s not as easy as basecamp. Why would I want to complicate it?

there is this feature on MRA too. Connect your device to the computer via USB, then export the route to device.

 

[er-minio]

Yep. I was going to add this too: MRA can send directly to the device.
And, again the explanation of the variants of gpx file versions was much appreciated (by me) as that is completely overlooked in other software, namely BC, and helped me solve a couple of issues when using BC.

Again, I no longer use MRA as I didn't love it and didn't work well with the way I build travel plans, but it's a very good alternative, it has its strengths and unique features. It's "fresh" so it can only improve over time.

My only concern is (or could be) that they now have a strong association with its sister navigation app, of course, and they will focus (rightfully) mostly on that feature or direction-wise, while I hope there is a device-agnostic planning software available out there. But it's an assumption I made, and they might keep the developing the MRA-planning part of the software device agnostic.

I guess it will depend on the funding going forward...