![]() I used BaseCamp to do a circle route from Platte City, MO to Platte City, MO by way of the Washington/Oregon/California coast. You can fine tune a route by adding or changing the order of waypoints. I Select the waypoints I'm going to use and then right click and choose "Create Route.". I use it by putting in way points along the route I'm planning, you generally don't need a lot but it depends on number of turns and sidetrips. Matt, in all honesty I've not found BaseCamp to be hard to use. It is a good thing I am old because I remember thing worked without excuses.Ī sailor, his bride and their black dog (one is waiting for us at the bridge) going to see some dry places that have Geocaches in a coach made the year we married. It, like will only tell you what it wants to, so trying to get it to predict a fuel stop (Furkot can)or an overnight in a rest area or a Walmart just is not happening - easily. I tried the trip planned demo, and got it to work only to find that it only does a fraction of what I want and it does not do that very well. That leaves out everything but Co-pilot and that cannot do much of what we need. The first qualification is that it has to work with no cell coverage. With the demise of Street Atlas, I have been searching for a replacement. That dream like most of mine has been stomped flat. I had great hopes when Garmin bought Delorme. They still work when you are out of cell coverage or an unfortunate lightning strike. Paper maps have their place, usually in the bottom of a bird cage.Īs a real digital mapping fan, I understand what you are saying, but as a multi-decade (half a century) navigator, I am never without hard copy charts. Please give me enough troubles, uncertainty, problems, obstacles and STRESS so that I do not become arrogant, proud, and smug in my own abilities, and enough blessings and good times that I realize that someone else is in charge of my life.ĭoes that map help show you which lane you need to be in when there is a 4 way separation coming up? Is that paper map capable of zooming in to show fine detail, like street names and small gravel roads? Does that map show you the easiest way around a large city to avoid heavy traffic? I like BC because I can zoom on each leg of the route to make sure that I am going the way I want to not the way some programer in India (?) thinks I should. I name all my legs (routes) with a number first so they sort the way I want. You can sort the routes by name or symbols. The screenshot below displays how I use waypoints to make my different "routes" on a 4,000 mile trip. Now that I understand BaseCamp I use it most of the time to transfer trips to my old StreetPilot 2720. I learn Garmin with MapSorce and loved it. If I can help in more detail feel free to PM me and I will try to assist if I can. I also add in intermediate points for fuel stops, via points, etc.Īfter this data is exported to my GPS I find each leg by clicking on APPS, Trip Planner, and then select the days trip from the list. Then for day two I have it calculate the route from point "B" to point "C" and so on. Then I have the program calculate routing between point "A" to point "B" which becomes the leg for day one. I like to use Google Earth to view those points and get accurate Lat/Long coordinates to refine those locations in BaseCamp. I found some reference to Hubs but don't believe it is useful or necessary to trip planning. I had never heard of "Hub" until your post and went searching within the program for what that is. I use BaseCamp for planning all our trips. Have a look at this PDF, good place to start. I have used them all but went to Trip Wizard about a year ago nowĤ29 Campgrounds,95K miles driven in our Winnebago motor homes and 2124 nights camping since we retired in July 2009, 40 National Parksīase Camp can be a bugger to learn let alone master. I think you need to check out RV Trip wizard its much better than MS Trips and Streets, Basecamp and Delome I generally use Delorme Street Atlas to initially plan a route and then use Basecamp to upload it to the Nuvi. It's a fairly simple program to use, but I don't like the fact that you lose roads when you zoom out. You don't have to do it that way, but it works well for me. I've never used a hub, I just use Waypoints and create routes. Is a hub the same thing, or should I plan a separate trip for each leg? I prefer to have a different route for each leg of the trip. What is a hub? I am trying to get several routes. This is a difficult program, but since the smart phone they have taken away all our easy routing tools. I am trying to learn Base Camp to create my routes so I can transfer to my Nuvi. RV.Net Open Roads Forum: Technology Corner: Base Camp for planning trip Open Roads Forum
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