This might be the same as "Fighting City Hall" but for the user of Garmin GPS for about 11 years and the MapSource Product, BaseCamp is not an equal replacement. First of all, MapSource is more intuitive and easier to navigate on my pc, which I do all of my route planning. Second, I am able to store separate files. I do one each for long rides, say 2 weeks / 3000 miles / 250 waypoints. I do a separate file for each year for shorter trips of a few hours, thus I have 2012, 2011, 2010 ... files. As for the Route Properties -> Directions screen, I can cut and paste it directly into Excel so that I can use this data to develope route itineraries. Instead of a row and column structure that is used with MapSource, BaseCamp pastes all the data in one column that is very difficult to work with, taking a lot of time to spread it back out into different columns. I use the Categories feature quite a bit to diferentiate things such as food, fuel, attractions, Harley Dealers, route plan, etc. I cannot do this with BaseCamp. Everything about the data in BaseCamp is difficult to work with. I am sorry but unless Garmin can restore features and make it easier to find your way around and save files BaseCamp is a looser in my mind.
I created the route with another map and then switched to CN NA NT 2013.40 and found an area (N36.53959 W82.14231) where simply viewing the route crashed MS. That said it crashed when zooming from 0.3Mi to 0.2Mi.
Now I have a GDB file that can be used for testing I'll play with it and see what I discover.
Also crashing in MapSource 6.15.11 under Win2K although the error information has different details.
From this I'm guessing that new map feature(s), that is data, exists in newer maps at some locations and MapSource doesn't know how to deal with that data. A crash can occur when MS has to deal with that data either by viewing it (by zooming in), creating a route etc.
Just for grins, and to satisfy my curiosity, has anyone tried this with CNNT 2013.3 reverse converted and used in MapSource 6.13.7 or the current version for that matter? If not I'll try it once I get back to my main computer. I'm just interested to know where and when it broke.
This is why, about a year ago, I started archiving maps (.gmap folder, device IMG(s), GMA etc) and firmware.
Right now I have
CN NA NT 2011.10 (for my 76CSx)
CN NA NT 2013.10 CN NA NT 2013.20 CN NA NT 2013.30 \ Have issues with MS 6.16.3 CN NA NT 2013.40 /
I'm wondering if my 1490T has an issue with this route
I plan to test that later.
More: route calculated fine in my 1490T. Simulating it now.
Update: My 1490T shutdown (it was AC powered) while simulating the route :( It appears that whatever is in the map affects MapSource and older units :mad:
Another update: Oh wait--no shutdown :confused: Screen was off but route still simulating.
Final update: route simulated ok. Evidently my 1490T can cope with whatever data is in the maps that affects MapSource.
No, didn't go that far. I'll see how your simulation goes, my gut feeling is that it's an issue between Mapsource and the maps, maybe just some tiles, after all it works OK in BC. But then I've been wrong before.
