Base camp keeps taking me on other, longer roads when I am creating a route

Former Member over 8 years ago

I am new to basecamp, having previously done all my GPS routing with Microsoft Streets and Trips, which is no longer sold or supported.

When I am creating a route in basecamp, it seems to do OK when I am clicking on roads that I want to take, when they are interstates. I routed myself from St. Louis to Great Barrington, MA OK. When I try to route on smaller roads, as I click on the road ahead, it jumps to some route to that point, but off to the side on some other roads/streets. It is virtually impossible to route through city streets.
My specific area is that I am trying to route from Great Barrington MA to Pittsfield MA on Hwy 7. I have tried it 20 times or more, still get mo results except winding routes on other roads.

Can anyone give me some guidance?

I am using a new Win 10 computer, Version 4.6.2 of BaseCamp, under Driving Preferences, I selected Faster Time, only unpaved road avoidance, no feature avoidances. I tried shorter distance but it made no difference.

Is there some other program which I can use to generate a gpx file to download to my Garmin device?

0 SUSSAMB over 8 years ago

Just tried that and it seems to route perfectly well, along route 7 and then route 20. Are you able to post a screen shot of what you're seeing?

I assume you are using CN NA2017.20?

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Here is the screen shot. I am using 2017.1

As you can see, I clicked 4 times on Route 7, and this is what it gave me. It is useless to click more often, it always takes some side road.

I cannot seem to upload a screen shot, so here is a dropbox link

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37972300/Route%20errors_Medium.png

0 SUSSAMB over 8 years ago

I'm not surprised ... looking at your dropbox picture you have the hiking profile selected ... :)

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

SUSSAMB:

Each time I would click on ROUTE. I would change the activity on the newly opened box to DRIVING, drag in my start point and try to route. I did not realize I also had to click on the activity at the top of BaseCamp.

Thank you very much for this extremely rapid solution to my (lack of observation ability) problem.

0 SUSSAMB over 8 years ago

Hmmm ... You shouldn't have to. The one in the toolbar sets the default. If you've changed it in the route box it should work.

To be sure open the route properties and see what's shown in the drop down box top right.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

It seems to be working OK now, I will be more careful when I am starting a route to insure I have correctly checked the driving mode.
Thanks again for your help.

0 SUSSAMB over 8 years ago

Great. I'll close this thread.