I have invested a lot of effort as many others have, in getting mapsource to behave!
Now that basecamp is here, I have tried to start using it but have discovered that it is no better than I expected....ho well.
having produced a set of some 18 route sectors in mapsource for our forthcoming tour, I thouhgt it would be a good idea to import them into basecamp and have a bit of a play.
I am now stumped so please help if you can!
I imported the routes as a folder, then this became a "collection". i wanted the routes separated so i could work on them, tweaking any garmin idiot re routes, these became "list" items
Question.
where do I access the "route properties" ( mapsource name)
having given up on basecamp I went back to mapsource on me old lap top to tweak the routes, then thought I had imported them again into basecamp, but now it seems not..
question
how do i ensure that what i have in basecamp is the version i want (ie the latest) of the routes?
on mapsource I would save as to ensure the latest version is the one saved, but this option or indeed "save" does not appear to be available to overwrite a folder with a later version.
one neat thing basecamp did when it downloaded the routes into my zumo 660 was it offered me the option of downloading them onto the sd card, which is nice I thought, and I wonder if this might be a quick fix if I was to copy them across direct to the sd card using explorer on the old laptop, so I can then import them as and when each is needed....because the zumo seems to be doing weird things at the moment ( even more so than before!)
such as telling me memory is full ( sorted I hope by deleting files as per other helpful threads on here) and
and insisting on recalculating the routes even thought he map version is the same on both zumo and pc(s) 2014.4)
I have also tried updating to the latest version 2015.2 and took the option to load mapset onto sd card (8gb so it should be enough for these and the routes)
as I hoped this would free up more space in zumo... assuming whne the new file is written to the card it will also delete the old file off the zumo internal memory
question
anyone else had this and did it work ?
I am sure someone must think the garmin way works well for them, personally I prefer the rather old fashioned view that I want to be a user not a software engineer delving into the strange world of garmin to try and make this do the basic stuff I want from a gps... ie show me where i am and show me the route I wish to follow to get to where i want to be!!!
Now that basecamp is here, I have tried to start using it but have discovered that it is no better than I expected....ho well.
having produced a set of some 18 route sectors in mapsource for our forthcoming tour, I thouhgt it would be a good idea to import them into basecamp and have a bit of a play.
I am now stumped so please help if you can!
I imported the routes as a folder, then this became a "collection". i wanted the routes separated so i could work on them, tweaking any garmin idiot re routes, these became "list" items
Question.
where do I access the "route properties" ( mapsource name)
having given up on basecamp I went back to mapsource on me old lap top to tweak the routes, then thought I had imported them again into basecamp, but now it seems not..
question
how do i ensure that what i have in basecamp is the version i want (ie the latest) of the routes?
on mapsource I would save as to ensure the latest version is the one saved, but this option or indeed "save" does not appear to be available to overwrite a folder with a later version.
one neat thing basecamp did when it downloaded the routes into my zumo 660 was it offered me the option of downloading them onto the sd card, which is nice I thought, and I wonder if this might be a quick fix if I was to copy them across direct to the sd card using explorer on the old laptop, so I can then import them as and when each is needed....because the zumo seems to be doing weird things at the moment ( even more so than before!)
such as telling me memory is full ( sorted I hope by deleting files as per other helpful threads on here) and
and insisting on recalculating the routes even thought he map version is the same on both zumo and pc(s) 2014.4)
I have also tried updating to the latest version 2015.2 and took the option to load mapset onto sd card (8gb so it should be enough for these and the routes)
as I hoped this would free up more space in zumo... assuming whne the new file is written to the card it will also delete the old file off the zumo internal memory
question
anyone else had this and did it work ?
I am sure someone must think the garmin way works well for them, personally I prefer the rather old fashioned view that I want to be a user not a software engineer delving into the strange world of garmin to try and make this do the basic stuff I want from a gps... ie show me where i am and show me the route I wish to follow to get to where i want to be!!!
