Garmin Basecamp
Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 6:48 pmI see there aren't any threads related to this subject. 
Is this because nobody is using it?
Has anyone who has, got an opinion of it?
I know Blackmagic posted summink about it the other week but I've forgotten what so I'll go have a look in a bit.
It's a replacement "improved/updated/more user friendly" programme for the Mapsource programme we have all been used to aint it?
Well, I haven't got that far to find out yet as I have been forced into adopting it and what a performance that has been !
A month or so ago I had my poota repaired. When it came back, all trace of Mapsource had disappeared.
Bollox, searched hi and lo for the Mapsource discs only to find that it /they wouldn't load up due to corrupt files or summink.
So that was me fooked with Mapsource.
Reading between the lines on the GS site and contrary to some of the Ludditious ( made that word up
) comments, the basecamp prog seems the way to go. No use fighting it is there 
.
So, I took the plunge and downloaded and installed Basecamp. Simples. Trouble was, there were no maps only the base layers.
What followed over the next ooooh 6 weeks mebbe, has been nothing but pain and strife and I kid you not...many, many hours on the phone to Garmin Support. many hours spent in a queue cos surprisingly they are as busy as fekk, and literally many hours being talked through step by step procedures, over 6 days of phone calls spread over these last 6 weeks, involving, deleting Basecamp, downloading, deleting, downloading, deleting, downloading, deleting and downloading Garmin Express, then the same with Basecamp...hours downloading Maps...of UK and Ireland, Full Europe, to my "device", "device and poota", poota only, then deleting them again cos I can't unlock the fekkas even though I've got the unlock codes which are the same as on "MyGarfookinmin" profile. I have followed emails off them including copy and pasting UNL files...with the Zumo plugged in, without it plugged in and even with it on the lawn at the bottom of the fekkin garden.
All to no avail. best I got last week was "ooooh..maps I can see bends and stuff on the Zumo" "Will that be all Sir?" "yea, thanks, great stuff" Click...burrrrrr. let's have a look at basecamp then...
NO feggin maps...Switch Zumo back on....twatting ditto!
I have these last 6 weeks, lost the will to live thinking I would never have the maps. The Support staff took me through variations on basic themes on downloading and installing maps all to no avail.
This morning, I thought to essen..."Shall I have one more crack at it on the phone...or shall I parcel up my laptop, power cable, access passwords, Zumo and Zumo cable and send it to Garmin support with the message that if they sort that bag of shite out I'll personally come down and give the successful support worker the finest blow job they'll ever have
Coming (phnaarr phnaarr) to my senses I thought no I'll give it one more try.
Phoned up at 09.20 and finally got answered by a real person at 10.35.
This time, and after 3 hours, I have finally got Basecamp with full Europe maps on ut, and my Zunmo 550 has got updated UK and Ireland maps on. I can't feggin believe it
One thing that I do remember during the 3 hour session in which we tried everything including my wifes knickers was that he asked me what SD card I had in the Zumo. ( nobody had asked me this in all the other consultations)
"16 Gb" I said " cos it's full of music"
"Aha" says Abdul "Zumo will not accept an SD card over 4Gb when trying to load maps on it..please take the card out!"
I did, and the maps went on straight away.
Still had to get them on Basecamp though and that was a long winded effort to which I can't remember what the problem was in the end other than "Windoze 7 and 8 can sometimes be bastids for this software ( what the fook I thought !") and also that he had to create an unlock code himself and unlock from wherever they are ( if I remember correctly)
So, now I'm up and runn...crawling and have to learn the idiosyncrasies(sp?) of basecamp quickly.
Got a couple of tutorial links off the Sherrif to get me started...first thing being.."how the fook, once I've started a new route and plotted a few roads, do I save it as that particular route? Stumped already..
I will piss myself when Oldbull gets to grips with it.
Thank you for listening.
Is this because nobody is using it?
Has anyone who has, got an opinion of it?
I know Blackmagic posted summink about it the other week but I've forgotten what so I'll go have a look in a bit.
It's a replacement "improved/updated/more user friendly" programme for the Mapsource programme we have all been used to aint it?
Well, I haven't got that far to find out yet as I have been forced into adopting it and what a performance that has been !
A month or so ago I had my poota repaired. When it came back, all trace of Mapsource had disappeared.
Bollox, searched hi and lo for the Mapsource discs only to find that it /they wouldn't load up due to corrupt files or summink.
So that was me fooked with Mapsource.
Reading between the lines on the GS site and contrary to some of the Ludditious ( made that word up
) comments, the basecamp prog seems the way to go. No use fighting it is there .So, I took the plunge and downloaded and installed Basecamp. Simples. Trouble was, there were no maps only the base layers.
What followed over the next ooooh 6 weeks mebbe, has been nothing but pain and strife and I kid you not...many, many hours on the phone to Garmin Support. many hours spent in a queue cos surprisingly they are as busy as fekk, and literally many hours being talked through step by step procedures, over 6 days of phone calls spread over these last 6 weeks, involving, deleting Basecamp, downloading, deleting, downloading, deleting, downloading, deleting and downloading Garmin Express, then the same with Basecamp...hours downloading Maps...of UK and Ireland, Full Europe, to my "device", "device and poota", poota only, then deleting them again cos I can't unlock the fekkas even though I've got the unlock codes which are the same as on "MyGarfookinmin" profile. I have followed emails off them including copy and pasting UNL files...with the Zumo plugged in, without it plugged in and even with it on the lawn at the bottom of the fekkin garden.
All to no avail. best I got last week was "ooooh..maps I can see bends and stuff on the Zumo" "Will that be all Sir?" "yea, thanks, great stuff" Click...burrrrrr. let's have a look at basecamp then...
NO feggin maps...Switch Zumo back on....twatting ditto!I have these last 6 weeks, lost the will to live thinking I would never have the maps. The Support staff took me through variations on basic themes on downloading and installing maps all to no avail.
This morning, I thought to essen..."Shall I have one more crack at it on the phone...or shall I parcel up my laptop, power cable, access passwords, Zumo and Zumo cable and send it to Garmin support with the message that if they sort that bag of shite out I'll personally come down and give the successful support worker the finest blow job they'll ever have
Coming (phnaarr phnaarr) to my senses I thought no I'll give it one more try.
Phoned up at 09.20 and finally got answered by a real person at 10.35.
This time, and after 3 hours, I have finally got Basecamp with full Europe maps on ut, and my Zunmo 550 has got updated UK and Ireland maps on. I can't feggin believe it
One thing that I do remember during the 3 hour session in which we tried everything including my wifes knickers was that he asked me what SD card I had in the Zumo. ( nobody had asked me this in all the other consultations)
"16 Gb" I said " cos it's full of music"
"Aha" says Abdul "Zumo will not accept an SD card over 4Gb when trying to load maps on it..please take the card out!"
I did, and the maps went on straight away.
Still had to get them on Basecamp though and that was a long winded effort to which I can't remember what the problem was in the end other than "Windoze 7 and 8 can sometimes be bastids for this software ( what the fook I thought !") and also that he had to create an unlock code himself and unlock from wherever they are ( if I remember correctly)
So, now I'm up and runn...crawling and have to learn the idiosyncrasies(sp?) of basecamp quickly.
Got a couple of tutorial links off the Sherrif to get me started...first thing being.."how the fook, once I've started a new route and plotted a few roads, do I save it as that particular route? Stumped already..
I will piss myself when Oldbull gets to grips with it.
Thank you for listening.
Hawkeye the pathfinder (remember him ) 
