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Route planning with Basecamp

Former Member
Former Member over 4 years ago

I;m not new to Basecamp or my Garmin Nuvi 3590. Over the years I have plotted a route to and from North Carolina using the minimum number of waypoints. WHen I look at the basecamp map, the route looks good.

How can I confirm that the Garmin NUVI is going to take EXACTLY the route I see in Basecamp? I don't seem to be able to see all the routes and turns until I am actually on the road, which is not a good thing.I want to have the confidence that the Garmin wont somehow recalculate the routes I so carefully have planned.

Any suggestions?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    You can't with a route.  A route is a set of points that the device routes between using its current maps and settings (road vs. dirt driving, etc.).  The device is free to do what it wants with the routing between points.  For example, I can have a route that is two points: one in SF and the other in NY.  When I load this into a device, I may/will probably get a different actual path in each device I load.  The ONLY sure way to get and EXACT path is to use a track.  With a track, the device never interprets "between" the dots - it just draws a straight line between each lat/lon point.  If you have the same map and routing hints in basecamp and your device you can usually get the same path drawn.  Best of luck.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago

    ANd so these same rules apply with the export to trip planner?

    What Garmin do I have to buy these days to offer something OTHER than a route -- a track.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I'm not sure the question you are asking.  As far as "seeing" the route on your nuvi, I'd look up how to use it.  I assume there are zoom and pan functions that let you see the plotted path?  Because of this crazy "route" stuff I wrote software that takes a track and plots a BIG FAT line on my garmin montana so it never alters my EXACT path.  This is good as far as that goes but you lose turn-by-turn instructions, etc. which I could careless about for my needs (90% off-road).  See tricktracks.org but it's probably killing a goldfish with a whaling harpoon.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    It's easy enough to confirm it. Having loaded the route to it disconnect your nuvi and then do a where to, select the route and hit Go. If your nuvi is going to recalculate it will do so then. Now connect it back up to BaseCamp and compare the route on your device with the one in BaseCamp. At this point I change the colour of one of them as it makes the comparison easier. If you spot any issues add more viapoints as needed.