Pulling My Hair Out Right About Now!! Please Help

Former Member over 12 years ago

Ok, So I have been at this Basecamp for about a week now. I have been learning that its not as simple as it should be. However, I am planning on taking my Harley for a 10+ hr ride and I don't want to plan a route for such a long trip only to find out halfway there and on some back road, IM LOST because I did not plan the route properly, lol. Anyways, I have some basic, probably for you guys, questions.

I have been watching some videos on youtube and I see when they create a route using the three green dots, they get a white pencil, click on a start spot and then click along the route. I then see them go up on the toolbar and select, lets say the magnifying glass, magnify an area, and then go back and click the green dots and continue with their route. However, when I do this, I create a separate route all together. So now lets say I have from Pink Street to James street routed, but I need to find Apple street and in order to do this, I need to pan the map over some to the left. So now I have found Apple street and I want myt route to follow on apple st so.....here comes the question, how do I have the same route that I have on Pink St and James st, continue onto apple st???

And somple, what is the dashed street mean, dirt/unpaved road?

How do I save the route that I created as a GPX file so I can, lets say, email it to a friend?

Appreciate the help, I hope I did confuse the hell out of yall.

BTW, if it clears anything up, I have not been using Way Points to create my route, I have just been using google maps to find the main route and then transferring it into base camp manually. I have yet to figure out how to drag and drop a start and finish point into the popup box that appears when you click new route. Well this should be long enough and hopefully I can get some answer or directed to a good video that will help me out. Just aggravated right now because I have made a route for a day trip only to find out its been broken down into several small point a to point b trips and not as one trip. And to make it worse, its out of order!!! Don't know why a billion dollar company cant find somebody to make a user friendly program to create routes, or is it really simple and I just don't know how to use it.

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

Well I wouldn't say it's simple but once you're used to it then it works fine :)

Extending routes, just select the insert (pencil like) tool and hover over the end point of the existing route, you should see a small black circle around the end point, click your mouse and you can then continue the route.

Dashed street could mean anything, depends which map you're using.

To save a route select the route then File, Export in the toolbar.

To use the pop up route box you simply drag and drop waypoints from anywhere in the My Collection or any other folder that's listed in the left hand panes.

0 C14_Rider over 12 years ago

With the Insert tool, any existing route can be extended as sussamb describes. BC is a little fussy about where the pencil pointer has to be to get the route end point identified with the black dot, you may have to move the pencil around some until the dot appears. It seems often that pointing directly to the route end point doesn't do it, that will show the black line that indicates "insert via point" mode. Just move the pencil around until the dot appears before you click.
However, the method shown in the video should work and no need to select the last point. There is however one thing I noticed that can screw it up. After doing some routing, then switching to the Zoom tool, for example, then clicking again on the Route tool (not Insert), the "start new route" box will again appear. In this case you don't want to use that, so you get rid of it. If you click on the "close" button with the mouse, then you should be put back in the original route and can continue it as per the video. (It also works if you ignore it and leave the box there off to the side.) But if instead you get rid of the box by pressing the "esc" key, then that tells BC you are done creating the route, and it will start a new one, as the op was experiencing. As a general rule, pressing "esc" tells BC that you are finished with whatever multi-step process you were doing.

So I wonder if that esc key got pressed?

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

I too, used Mapsource for many happy years. Basecamp is kicking my tail. I can't even get the insert tool to activate so I can use it to drag and drop. I created a waypoint that I labeled Home. Then I go to file>create new route and I get the drag and drop window. But the insert tool is not available. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Also, I'm using a 3597. I tried to use Mapsource and it would not find my device. I called support and they told me MS won't work with a 3597. I've seen other threads where they way it will work if I care to learn how. I'd love to learn now. Is it really possible to use MS or not? Thanks again.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

You need to create a route first before you can use the insert tool to insert via points.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Ok, it seems I have to drag and drop way points from the list of waypoints in located at the lower left side of the menu and not directly from the map as I have been trying to do. Progress.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

You need to get your Nuvi into mass storage mode to work with Mapsource. You should be able to search up a thread or two that describes how to do that. It's one of those "easter egg" sorts of things that requires some strange combination of gestures, presses and incantations. :)

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