Zumo 360 help
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Other people manage.
Try harder, perhaps?
You post is infantile in its appeal for help. What problems are you encountering; start with the simple ones first. It might also help if you let your audience know if you are using a Mac or a PC.
Try harder, perhaps?
You post is infantile in its appeal for help. What problems are you encountering; start with the simple ones first. It might also help if you let your audience know if you are using a Mac or a PC.
iand46
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Yes indeed wapping that's true. I can't actually get the Zumo correct it's a 340 LM. I have a PC and the points transfer as I can see them on the zumos directory when plugged in. Can't access them later though.
iand46
Registered user
If you are used to Mapsource - Basecamp can be initially daunting..........
But once you get to grips with it - it's pretty good.
It's always possible that you struggle with the technology, or to be less PC........................
That you are "shite"
Al
But once you get to grips with it - it's pretty good.
It's always possible that you struggle with the technology, or to be less PC........................
That you are "shite"
Al
The Grey One
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Basecamp is still a sow's ear, there is a long way to go before it could be called anything but challenging. All these new devices will work with Mapsource if you set them up to do it. Interesting that some choose to be rude to the OP right from the off. None of us are born with knowledge, we have to acquire it and asking questions is a good way of starting. Wisdom however requires a little more effort and humility.
Maybe the OP could tell us if he has any previous experience of sat navs and mapping programs or is the 340 his first device?
John
Maybe the OP could tell us if he has any previous experience of sat navs and mapping programs or is the 340 his first device?
John
Maybe the OP could have told us anything to have described his problem, which could have embraced anything from the lead between his computer (we now know it's a PC and not a Mac) to a lack of electricity, to some bizarrely created route with all but useless waypoints, through to the wrong file format.... The list goes on and on....
PS BaseCamp is not shite. Tyre is. Just an opinion, mind.
The Grey One
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Maybe that's my problem, I come into the first category but am not yet in the second!
But seriously why should anyone have to try so hard to work with Basecamp? A newer improved system should be easier to use than what went before. Basecamp is certainly not that. Personally I can't be bothered for my own use; I can see no benefit over Mapsource for what I use it for.
I do use Basecamp because I work with guest's devices and most people don't have them set up to work with Mapsource. What I can say from this is that the vast majority of users who have experience of other systems (Mapsource, Tyre etc) have nothing good to say about Basecamp. As for those who have just started using a modern Garmin most haven't even downloaded Basecamp.
Whilst I applaud those of you with the spare time and commitment to make Basecamp work I still think that is far more difficult to use than it need be and as the routing system for a market leader it fails miserably in that so many Garmin owners don't or won't use it. Could it be that this is part of the strategy from Garmin? After all they no longer make devices with software specifically designed for motorcyclists use, they might see making routes on a PC as something to be discouraged. It would save them the trouble if we all just asked the device to take us somewhere, routing us as it saw fit. After all this is what most car drivers want, just to get the journey over with as painlessly as possible. For most of us the journey is the thing to be savoured, hence our wish to plan our own route rather than letting the machine decide.
John
So what I have I learnt .
1. Posting a half arsed question on this forum while panicking on a ferry to Spain will be punished.
2. Take more time to play with the Zumo.
3. https://www.motogoloco.com/map/ works really well, thanks for the heads up
4. The Zumo needs web bolt on to communicate with my laptop
5. The Zumo needs lots of way points to form its route, it can't cope with thinking for itself.
I have had a great two days riding down to Barcelona. Northern Spain is fantastic.
Thanks
1. Posting a half arsed question on this forum while panicking on a ferry to Spain will be punished.
2. Take more time to play with the Zumo.
3. https://www.motogoloco.com/map/ works really well, thanks for the heads up
4. The Zumo needs web bolt on to communicate with my laptop
5. The Zumo needs lots of way points to form its route, it can't cope with thinking for itself.
I have had a great two days riding down to Barcelona. Northern Spain is fantastic.
Thanks
The Grey One
Registered user
So what I have I learnt .
1. Posting a half arsed question on this forum while panicking on a ferry to Spain will be punished.
2. Take more time to play with the Zumo.
3. https://www.motogoloco.com/map/ works really well, thanks for the heads up
4. The Zumo needs web bolt on to communicate with my laptop
5. The Zumo needs lots of way points to form its route, it can't cope with thinking for itself.
I have had a great two days riding down to Barcelona. Northern Spain is fantastic.
Thanks
1. are you surprised, a half arsed question cannot be properly answered by those who might have the knowledge to assist so that only really leaves the sort of replies you got
2. Absolutely right, there is a learning curve with these things and investing a little time pays dividends
3. yes look fine
4 it needs a lead, usually supplied with the kit. Did you expect anything else? And maps plus routing software on your PC, no surprise there either.
5.The Zumo will "think" for itself and route you where you want to end up. Just put in your destination and say go! As I have said that's what most people do in a car, they just want to get there. Whilst it will get you there most of us have our own ideas as to what makes the best route on the bike. For instance when I rode from Santander to Barcelona the device would have taken a more or less direct route, being a July I wanted to stay as far as possible on the high ground where it would be cooler so I plotted a route on my PC that did just that.
John
MotoGoLoco
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So what I have I learnt .
1. Posting a half arsed question on this forum while panicking on a ferry to Spain will be punished.
2. Take more time to play with the Zumo.
3. https://www.motogoloco.com/map/ works really well, thanks for the heads up
4. The Zumo needs web bolt on to communicate with my laptop
5. The Zumo needs lots of way points to form its route, it can't cope with thinking for itself.
I have had a great two days riding down to Barcelona. Northern Spain is fantastic.
Thanks
Glad to hear it
Give us a shout if you need any pointers.
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