I have been struggling with Base Camp. I have been trying to produce a sensible route for a motorcycle ride of approx 130 miles, using bike orientated roads in the UK. I have tried using the "New Route" tool. I have found that unless I put in a huge number of 'via points' it takes bizarre routes all over the place. After many hours I finally managed to get a sensible route and downloaded it to my Zumo 660. The Zumo found it on it's memory card and asked if I should like to import it - I replied that I did and it then told me that it couldn't because there were too many via point. :mad:
This morning I decided to make a simple route using way points and asked Base Camp to create the route using these way points. The result looked as if I had tied the end of a ball of magenta string to cat and then fed it LSD :eek: It was insane and turned a 130 mile ride into hundreds of miles :mad:
Eventually I downloaded the way points to the Zumo and set the route on that.
I am very fed up with my Zumo, which I have had for a number of years. The original route software was pretty clunky and not great, but Base Camp seems to be absolutely rubbish :mad: The blue tooth and the speaker in the unit have gone a bit mad as well.
I chose this very expensive unit because I had previously use Garmin marine equipment, which was excellent and well supported. The Zumo 660 was very expensive for what is basically a not very special Sat Nav in a water proof case. My main reason for buying it was the ability to plan routes and because of the very clunky software this has been very disappointing.
Garmin technical support these days seems ill informed and of a massively lower standard than the marine support used to be, where one felt the company actually cared. In my opinion Garmin have become mass market and support doesn't seem to matter, even on the premium products
