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Trip Planner with Nuvi 56

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I cannot lay out a two week trip on a day-by-day basis.
Adding hubs puts the waypoint at the end of the trip.
Are there any tutorials for Trip Planner? I've viewed all the rest.
Are there known problems with this interface?
I've spent a lot of hours trying this...:(
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    I don't know about the nuvi 56 but if you are after BaseCamp help for Trip Planner there is this:

    http://garminbasecamp.wikispaces.com/Trip+Planner
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    Trip Planner with Nuvi 56

    I don't know about the nuvi 56 but if you are after BaseCamp help for Trip Planner there is this:

    http://garminbasecamp.wikispaces.com/Trip+Planner


    Thanks I will try it tomorrow.!
    Looks like a good source.
    Ron
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    I have a Nuvi 56 with Trip Planner, and also have the Base Camp App on a Win 7 computer. As I understood B/C before the latest firmware/software update with Garmin Express locked up the existing B/C maps, they are two slightly different animals. B/C routes, but not trips, can be imported into the Nuvi 56, and exported routes from B/C to an SD card gpx folder can be turned into Trips on the device.

    My suggestion, based on recent usage, would be to first learn how to create a multi-stop first day trip from newly created Saved Places on the device using Trip Planner. After adjusting the Stop points for layover times, try to select a departure time that meets expectations on that first day of routing.

    If the on device Trip Planning seems too laborious, then create Routes, not trips, on B/C for each day and import them into the device for completing the Trip Planning chore. As for the exact sequence, I dunno, as I just keep clickin' until something works.
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    I was coming around to just making separate routes. I'll give that a try. Did not know I could change routes into a trip on the Nuvi...
    Thanks!
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    I was coming around to just making separate routes. I'll give that a try...


    If you like BaseCamp's Trip Planner you can go on using it to plan multi-day trips; you don't have to give it up just for that. Notice that Trip planner will create a different route for each day. They appear as individual routes in the bottom left hand pane after you exit Trip Planner. So, if you like, each one of those routes can be sent separately to the nuvi. Its' not a case of all or nothing.
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    What's a hub?

    Having purchased a Nuvi 65LM last year, I finally got around to setting up a custom route for a recent trip. And it doesn't do that any more. It uses Trip Planner instead. I thought Trip Planner had some advanced features, but it was way overkill for what I wanted. I just wanted a simple "Point A to Point C route, but take some back roads to go around Point B to avoid traffic in Point B". I was successful in getting it to do what I wanted after going through the tutorial above, and a fair amount of trial and error.

    I never could figure out what a "hub" was and what I would use that for. What exactly is a hub, and what would I do with it?
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    Yesterday I set up a multi-day trip for family members on the Nuvi 56, while referencing back and forth between BaseCamp, google, and another 3rd party mapping app. Waypoint creation, upon which the routing was based, was without issue. The departure time and layovers seemed fine on the device, but I had included too many hours of layover time on the next to last day. I might not have noticed if I had not imported the trip/route into B/C for printing. Even after correcting my errors and deleting the current.gpx file on the computer, the B/C routing printout had time errors on the last day/leg. Good enough for this trip, but I need to delve deeper at a later date.
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    After modifying and rechecking the trip in the Nuvi 56, jumping through some intermediate copy/paste/renaming of the resaved and rebooted current.gpx file before importing into B/C, and then reviewing the route trip times in B/C there does appear to be a final destination error in B/C. The layover time of the last stop before the destination is not properly displayed and the B/C total distance disagrees incorrectly with the Nuvi 56 road mileage as well.

    But then it occurred to me as I began to type this paragraph that I had removed the Garmin map file of North America when disconnecting the Nuvi 56 to compare data display on each leg of the trip. After plugging the device, with map files, back into the computer, BaseCamp was permitted to recalculate all old routes in the files, including the "current" new one from the device. The times were then very close, including the final destination time and mileage, except for a couple of instances in which either the device or B/C had a 15 minute minimum layover algorithm.

    So it appears that Trip transfer is feasible, but the direct import of "current.gpx" may cause errors if not renamed external to both B/C and the device.