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.
