Base Camp is a clunky, difficult interface

I have used Base Camp on the PC for years and on the I-Mac. The interface is a very good 1980 Windows ME product. Unfortunately it has not seen much improvement in the last 30 years. Finding a place using the address is artificially difficult because there is no place to simply enter the address.

I motorcycle so my interest is in scenic roads, rather than either the fastest or shortest route. You can set preferences to avoid highways, tool roads, etc. and get a first approximation but tweeking the route requires you to create way points and include them in the route. Often the software will “drive” down the road to the waypoint and then U-turn and return to the highway,

Another problem is that you cannot get the minor roads to show on the map when viewing at a large scale. When you get “close” enough for the gravel and unpaved roads to show you are viewing, at most, a couple of miles on the screen. This makes it very difficult to create a point-to-point route for a 200 mile ride when you only veiw it a mile at a time.

If this were not the only game in town it would not be successful. There are ways to use Goggle Maps to design the route and then export the route as a Garmin-compatible file but it is painful. In an ideal world Garmin, or someone, would provide easy to use imports so that one could use better mapping software.

That said, you have no other real choice. Join the club and continue to lobby Garmin to make software as good as their very good hardware.

GlennJ07 about Garmin BaseCamp