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Hi Guys, help needed. Just switched from TomTom with it's OEM myroad planner to Navigator.
Navi as unit look and works cool, however question to you - how do you plan your trips on Mac?
Which soft do you use to make it handy?
Any help highly apprecitated

The Garmin web site is the place to start there is loads of how too stuff on u tube
Have a look for jobybyrne easy to understand for me

I use a MAC and I use the Garmin Basecamp software which works well, you can go from point A to point B but that would be a waste of the software, I've found the best way for me is to Create multiple way points along your preferred route once there done create a route by dragging the way points listed on the left of your screen into the dialogue box on your screen. One thing to note about way points is to make sure they are on the correct side of the road especially on multi lane roads, otherwise your route will get it's knickers in a twist.

basecamp is the garmin system which I also use, I do not find it user friendly but am slowly getting the hang of it. the key as has been said is build up waypoints and then create a route. The biggest issue is make sure you zoom fully into the map when making a waypoint so you don't put the waypoint on the wrong side of a road if dual carriage or on a road very close as it really buggers up your journey.

good luck

there are other options as people say

Graham

Serious kudos to anyone who can make sense of Basecamp! I consider myself reasonably computer-literate but that beast is the most incomprehensible piece of software I've ever tried to use...

Serious kudos to anyone who can make sense of Basecamp! I code to make a living but Basecamp makes absolutely no sense to me..

It's true, Basecamp is daunting at first but it's well worth the effort in learning the features. I've just completed just under 3000 miles in Europe all of which I planned using Basecamp. Once you've planned the your basic route you can then start adding things like hotels, fuel stops, food etc, there is all manor of things you can add to your route.

I learnt to use Basecamp from this youtube video https://youtu.be/lkOzjWNlh6Y

Apologies if this is old news but Ride magazine's website has loads of routes, both home and abroad, that can be downloaded as GPX files, the routes are from readers and journos. I loaded a couple to my Nav 5, although if I'm honest I'm not certain how and I'm not sure if I could repeat it, I'm guessing that's the Basecamp thing. Still the routes were good and I was shown some great roads near me I hadn't known.

Lots of hard lessons to be learned when using a GPS.

From 1 who is a Garmin / Basecamp fan with several years of experience with the Garmin devices on 2 wheels and 4. And I still use one stuck to the screen of my 4 wheeler as it is so much better than the built in unit.

I recently downloaded a gpx file from "that other GS forum", created by a kind chap and this will provide a major building block for my ride in 2019 to Wallonia (and other places between here and there).

Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #11

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I am off to Spain & Portugal on the weekend for 16 nights.

I have plotted a few routes, mostly on those days when travelling between two pre-booked hotels.

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Zitat von nrbully im Beitrag #10

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loads of routes, both home and abroad, that can be downloaded as GPX files, the routes are from readers and journos. I loaded a couple to my Nav 5, although if I'm honest I'm not certain how

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