Longtime Garmin User

My First GARMIN GPS was a NUVI 750. And back in those days, GARMIN had a Mac-only Navigation application called ROAD TRIP written by a crew of Mac users, and was relatively easy to learn. But GARMIN decided to merge the Mac/Windows Teams and moved over all of ROAD TRIP’s procedures into a combined Windows/Mac app called BASE CAMP. The result was (and still is) a minor travesty. What was simple to operate, is now confusing. Now you dont know if you need the OPTION key or CONTROL key to accomplish a routine operation. But that’s not the real problem. The current “version” dropped a lot of data that I had used in previous routes. GARMIN’s response is to file a “Map Error”, but that’s STUPID. If a PILOT Truck Stop was in an earlier map, (and it didn’t burn down) why would it disappear??? That’s just the smoke. Most likely the whole BASE CAMP and it’s maps are on FIRE. This weekend I looked for a restaurant near Okeechobee. BASECAMP said it was about 40 miles away from an intersection. MAPS and Google Maps both had it right. 5 miles! Even GAS BUDDY’s map had it right. This Navigation application is cumbersome, far more difficult to use than the MAC version, and attempting to correct all the faults in Garmin’s procedures and their corruption of Mapping data is NOT our job!

jhop (I had it forever) about Garmin BaseCamp