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New member Basecamp Track and alarm points

Paul Ten
over 3 years ago

Hi I am new to this forum having recently purchased a Montana 700 My use is for hiking and cycling. I have spent a couple of weeks playing with routes and tracks in Basecamp and I think I must be missing something.

I have been able to create routes using the correct  profile for road cycling, no problem. For a mixed trail and direct route walk I thought I had been clever in creating 2 routes for two profiles and combining them. All good so far. When I walked my route today I found my mistake. When walking I am lapt to go off route when the fancy takes me. I know realise that my 700 wants to keep directing back to regain my route and that ends up a mess. I guess I should expect it and would appreciate it whilst driving. 

So my question. How do others tackle the problem of want a route on the display but not wanting to stick to it. As far as I can see with a track you cant control the map points like you can on a route so it is not possible to change points like you can with shaping and via points. 

Is there a way of creating a track but still having alarms at critical points.

Sorry if I am missing something obvious but as I say I am new to this. I have put a lot of time into learning Basecamp but I am still confused on what is the best way if one exists to achieve what I want

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Paul Ten

    Some good news. My reluctance to use waypoints was mainly based on the fact as I understand  that on the Montana you would need to set a proximity alarm on an individual waypoint basis. I could not find any way to set the proximity for multiple waypoints in one go.

    What I have managed to make work tonight in Basecamp is that I can indeed select multiple waypoints change the symbol and set a proximity. I have sent them to the Montana and the changes remain and work. 

    For the life of me I cannot see why a via point alarm or shaping point command wouldn't transfer to the Montana especially given that when I open the Basecamp gpx file and the Montana gpx file (sent back to my pc to explore) of the same route in notepad both have the same code showing them as shaping points or Via points (to my inexperienced eye that is). 

    So a bit of progress for me maybe I can get this thing to work as I want. Good luck to anyone who thinks they are buying a ready to go out of the box product. If you want to use direct routing it just ain't so. 

    Many thanks for the replies guys you really stopped me giving up and walking away from this.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Paul Ten

    Glad to hear that you have been able to create multiple waypoints with proximity alarms. Used with a track these should work fine. You can also use the Duplicate function to copy a waypoint and its attributes, then use the Move Point tool to reposition it. This can speed up the waypoint creation process.

    If you have not come across it before, you might want to checkout another source of material that may be of particular help with developing routes which is the New England Riders Learn BaseCamp tutorial available at: https://www.newenglandriders.org/learn-basecamp/.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Eyelet99

    Echo that. There is a bit of a learning curve with Garmin handhelds but once you're past that you wonder why you ever had an issue Slight smile