turn ON snap to trail setting

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I'm new to this forum. I have an Oregon 450, which I bought five years ago in the UK, along with the entire Lake District Ordnance Survey maps. I have basecamp on Windows 7.

What I want to do is have the route I create from waypoints snap to the trail, but it doesn't; it just makes a random route that sometimes is north of the trail and sometimes south of it, but not on the trail. Sometimes the route it plots takes me across what looks like on the map to be completely unnavigable. It has me crossing a stream twice, whereas the trail on the map stays on the same side of the stream for its entire path.

I've looked at tutorials here:

http://www8.garmin.com/learningcenter/training/basecamp/#PC

They don't seem to work on my PC version of basecamp. Or at least they're not applicable; I can't find anything that actually shows plotting a route on a trail map.

I'm using the New Waypoint tool to set waypoints along the trail and then the New Route tool to connect them (by dragging the start and end points into the dialog). If instead I close the dialog and just draw the route with the New Route tool, it makes a similarly unusable route, with the additional complication of adding unwanted side jogs to points I have clicked on that it seems not to "like."

I'm making a return trip to the UK and if I can't create routes here on my PC and transfer them to the Garmin there's no point in bringing the Garmin along. Also, how to I create routes on the Garmin itself (because I won't be bringing my computer along)? I have two weeks to get this to work. I hope someone will be kind enough to provide instructions or point me to the best place to look.

Thank you.
  • You can only search for data in the database. The OS map is simply a raster map (that is a copy of the OS map) and so not fully searchable, features like Wasdale Head, Black Sail pass may not be included.

    Having said that I can find Wasdale Head by searching my OS map but not Black Sail pass, but then I have a different OS map to you I suspect.
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    0 Former Member over 8 years ago
    If the OS maps are just images, then is it true that when I am physically within the Lake District I can't search on my Oregon 450 for items any more than I can within basecamp on my PC? Curiously, or perhaps not so curiously, when I search the Garmin here (Calgary, Alberta) for "Wasdale," as soon as I get the letters "WA" typed, it starts displaying a list of WA-- venues in the Alberta area. It won't let me type the whole word "Wasdale." To see the OS map again I have to choose one of the routes I have been able to construct, with your (much appreciated) help.
  • The map comes with numerous POIs etc so yes, you'll be able to search but there's no guarantee that everything you search for is available.

    To search while you're in the US should work, but ensure only the OS map is selected.