Pardon the dumb question, but when creating a path between two points using the hiking profile I get a crazy route. The starting point is a lake in the mountains, the destination is another lake less than a mile away. The hiking profile has me walking several miles to the highway several miles away, up the highway, back down the highway, then back in several miles. Has anyone had similar problems? I can attach a screen shot if need be.
This will be due to the map you're using, which one is it? BaseCamp can only route you the way you'd like to go if the map you're using has those trails marked as 'routeable'.
It's not a marked trail on the map. It's between two lakes. It's Basecamp that came with my 64ST. I've got the 100k topo maps that came on the unit. The magenta line is what it calculated. The gray line is the line of sight path.
Pardon the dumb question, but when creating a path between two points using the hiking profile I get a crazy route.
Have you tried using the "Direct" setting to force it to ignore any routing data the map might contain? It sounds like Basecamp sees that the highway is routable so it takes the route directly to the highway at the point nearest to the starting point, along the highway to the nearest point to the destination, then directly from the highway to the destination.
It would only do that if two things are in play:
1. You are using a profile that allows the use of any routing data the maps might contain.
2. The maps contain some routing data, perhaps just on major roadways.
