Hubcap
Registered user
Firstly, many thanks to all the people who replied to my pleas for help with my Nav 6, which I was struggling to get to work with Basecamp, specifically that my Mac would not display the maps in my unit on Basecamp. This site was SO much more helpful and responsive than Garmin support who slow-fed me endless nonsense, and no responses from the escalation team, until I threatened to write directly to their MD for UK & Eire, Jon Oliver at which point magically I started getting very quick responses indeed from someone who knew their arse from their elbow.
As you may have read on here, some of us MacbookAir users wish to preserve our limited disk space for other uses and not keep huge map files on our MacBooks. Garmin says you can view the maps on your Nav in Basecamp, which seems like a good solution to the disk space problem. BUT there's a catch, revealed to me by Garmin support which is that in order to view the Nav's maps on the Mac, there must be a minimum of 20GB free disk space. So back to square one.
Long story short, my issue of viewing my Nav's maps an my Mac was finally resolved by freeing up 20GB of disk space, and following some advice on here, rather than Garmin's, using the Garmin USB cable instead of another USB data cable that works perfectly with every other device I own.
So problem solved. BUT there are other buts. I read on here (and elsewhere) of issues with the Nav sending people down types of road they have selected to avoid and on routes that are far from the 'fastest route' option they have selected. Of slow recalculation, causing missed turns. Of missed turns resulting in unnecessarily long detours. And of multiple crashes and resets. Of the curvy roads option routing down motorways. All of these I have personally experienced on a two week trip in Spain. Plus routes which take me into the middle of a housing estate and then tell me to do a U turn. Multiple times, multiple journeys, multiple countries. Grrrrr!!!
I find that entering a simple journey in Basecamp, for example Salisbury to Exeter, offers me an address in Birmingham with no mention of Exeter in it. I read that the car setting is better for route planning than the motorcycle setting. I fear that every time I try to use basecamp in the future I will be tripped up by yet another quirk that will require yet more questions on forums and endless frustration.
For me, the only saving grace of the Nav6 is its readability in very bright sunlight.
Is there an answer to all this, or shall I take it back and get a refund? Thoughts very welcome.
Thank you
As you may have read on here, some of us MacbookAir users wish to preserve our limited disk space for other uses and not keep huge map files on our MacBooks. Garmin says you can view the maps on your Nav in Basecamp, which seems like a good solution to the disk space problem. BUT there's a catch, revealed to me by Garmin support which is that in order to view the Nav's maps on the Mac, there must be a minimum of 20GB free disk space. So back to square one.
Long story short, my issue of viewing my Nav's maps an my Mac was finally resolved by freeing up 20GB of disk space, and following some advice on here, rather than Garmin's, using the Garmin USB cable instead of another USB data cable that works perfectly with every other device I own.
So problem solved. BUT there are other buts. I read on here (and elsewhere) of issues with the Nav sending people down types of road they have selected to avoid and on routes that are far from the 'fastest route' option they have selected. Of slow recalculation, causing missed turns. Of missed turns resulting in unnecessarily long detours. And of multiple crashes and resets. Of the curvy roads option routing down motorways. All of these I have personally experienced on a two week trip in Spain. Plus routes which take me into the middle of a housing estate and then tell me to do a U turn. Multiple times, multiple journeys, multiple countries. Grrrrr!!!
I find that entering a simple journey in Basecamp, for example Salisbury to Exeter, offers me an address in Birmingham with no mention of Exeter in it. I read that the car setting is better for route planning than the motorcycle setting. I fear that every time I try to use basecamp in the future I will be tripped up by yet another quirk that will require yet more questions on forums and endless frustration.
For me, the only saving grace of the Nav6 is its readability in very bright sunlight.
Is there an answer to all this, or shall I take it back and get a refund? Thoughts very welcome.
Thank you