Base Camp or Road Trip

Former Member over 14 years ago

I have a very basic question. I have a Garmin 465T that I use almost exclusively in my motor home and in my car. As several others in this forum have noted, the current Mac software does not do many of the tasks that Mapsource does in the Windows environment. I do not want to do off road or geocaching. I just want to get my vehicle from point A to point B - and I want to be able to download and edit my tracks, my waypoints, etc. I have Road Trip and know what it will and won't do. But on the Road Trip forum, lots of suggestions seem to have to do with Base Camp. So do I need both? Just one? Help me understand here.

Thanks in advance.

MFTDoc.

0 PSEABOLT over 14 years ago

All you need is BaseCamp. The switch is painless.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

Thanks

I appreciate the help. I will try that. I assume I can simply import my maps (which are stored on my Mac) into the Base Camp.

0 PSEABOLT over 14 years ago

No import necessary, BaseCamp uses the same map folder as RoadTrips

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

Hi,

I did that switch few months ago but I have trashed RoadTrip and it's .plist

One question please, in the Garmin folder ( ~ -> Application support -> Library -> Garmin ) I didn't thrash that folder...

Shall I trash it too ? As I have issue transferring routes from BC to my 660 would this help ?

Thanks

0 azdrmn over 14 years ago

Hi,
One question please, in the Garmin folder ( ~ -> Application support -> Library -> Garmin ) I didn't thrash that folder...

Shall I trash it too ? As I have issue transferring routes from BC to my 660 would this help ?

Thanks

No you should not delete anything in your Library/Garmin directory. This is one of the place maps are stored, so you should not delete them. There is no interaction between RoadTrip and BaseCamp, so deleting one will not help the other.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

Thanks for that :)

Would you be kind enough to take a look at my issue beeing not able to transfer routes from BC to my 660 with the correct mileage ?

Cheers

0 PSEABOLT over 14 years ago

I may be totally off with this reply, I don't have a 660. Garmin stores routing information on each map and if you change maps, you get different route and different milages in most cases. For example if you use a topo 24K map to create a route and transfer the route to a nuvi with city navigator, the routes will differ most of the time. If you transfer a route with only a start and end waypoint, the transfer is only the two waypoints. The gps must recreate the route and draw on the GPS map. This is the main difference between routes and tracks.