![]() While it undoubtedly has its limitations and lacks versatility, I find it pretty good for planning routesfor Garmin devices. ![]() although I still don't trust it I struggle to appreciate why many find BaseCamp so much to their dislike. So, though at first I was close to sending it back, I'm gradually getting used to it. The other feature that I find curious is the fact that it will occasionally ask if you want to skip the next waypoint ? Why ? I'd spent time putting the damn thing on the route ?Īnd once or twice, it sent me onto a Toll Road despite having carefully set both MRA and Zumo itself to avoid toll roads. Every so often it stthat it arts asking you if you want the Zumo to start looking to fuel stations, often when you're concentrating on riding through a busy town centre ! There are numerous features many of which I find frankly pure distraction. The apparatus itself is very good, a fairly clear screen, a solid mounting and easily removed. I then found that if I transferred my routes using "GARMIN OLD GPX 1.0" I could get excellent routes with all waypoints etc clearly displayed.īack to Zumo 396. I find it hard to believe that a company that can provide such serviceable hardware is so badly let down by abysmal software. That was a complete waste of several days. I even had a much closer look at Garmin Basecamp to overcome this. Creating routes on MRA and transferring them to the Zumo resulted in mostly straight lines ! Arguably better GPS than the $800 Zumo.I bought a Garmin Zumo 396 a few weeks ago to replace my Garmin Nuvi which had served me ,temperamentally, for the last 7 years.Īt first I was seriously disappointed. But I’ll put up with Garmin when I bought DriveSmart 61LMT 7” for $99 refurbished. I’m tired of paying premium prices for mediocre Garmin Zumo 595. I’d love for a company to offer a high quality GPS and supporting software. Then let’s not forget the problems creating a route on computer that is interpreted differently in the GPS. #Garmin basecamp forum windowsApparently this is not an issue in Windows where C:\ and c:\ are indistinguishable Today if your Time Capsule uses a case sensitive file system then BC will perpetually pest for permission to scan the volume to determine if it is Garmin-ese. If one’s root volume was case sensitive then BC could not read most Garmin GPSs. ![]() #Garmin basecamp forum macMost of Mac BaseCamp’s life it had juvenile coding errors such as wrong case for /Volumes/GARMIN. For years we had to mount the GPS as a file system then navigate to a folder to delete files in order to clean up the mess. Only means to delete is directly on the GPS. And same thing for track logs and other waypoints.Ĭan only upload a route to the GPS. Much data read from GPS again is confused with data previously read so one ends up with a collection of HOME, HOME-1, -2, -3. It doesn’t gave a clean means of archiving data then revisit. It doesn’t work with large quantities of data. The user interface for managing sets of data is a pie in the sky fantasy. You are a stupid Mac user who will be happy for anything. #Garmin basecamp forum codeSuch programmers do not write code that they themselves expect to have to maintain or enhance. Hired contract programmers who hang around until management signs off, then gone. ![]() I never got the impression as a user that Garmin was doing anything but the minimal effort for Mac. The problem is that a Garmin uses Windows developers and started from a Windows product (Mapsource) which was heavily optimized for Windows video updates. ![]()
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