Maybe this is overly basic, but all I am after is a moving map with current speed, direction, elevation on the screen. Like nRoute or similar used to do. I have spent most of the afternoon trying to achieve this with zero joy, thus my appeal here.
I have the following equipment/software to work with:
City Navigator North America 2014.1
Basecamp 4.2.2
Garmin GPSmap 296 on ver. 6.1
Sony Laptop running Win 8 (64bit), i7 proc, truckloads memory, etc.
Garmin grmnusb.sys 2.3.1.0
Also Mapsource 6.16.3 (in case I should be using that for my purposes), or if Basecamp cannot do this, then I should use.....??
I can communicate back and forth with the 296 with Basecamp and with Mapsource, all good. I have selected and transferred maps back and forth (296's card only holds a certain amount), and can transfer a route from the GPS to pc, etc.
Goal: Upcoming road trip in a few days. We always use the 296 (just switch from aviation mode to automotive mode), and the boss wants her laptop to display moving map (no route, just the map itself) as a moving map with speed, direction, etc. As I said, we always used to do this (maybe with Nroute? I really don't remember). So I dropped $100 on this city navigator 2014 (was previously on 2008 so it was probably time), and otherwise ready to go, but I just cannot figure out how to tell Basecamp to operate as a "moving map in real time."
Am grateful for any suggestions.
