BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

I have just been told that a Nav IV bought new in April 2013 will not accept custom routes from BASECAMP.  The owner had contacted Garmin and was advised the 660 is no longer compatible with the latest version of BaseCamp . They did give him a link to overcome the problem which was Windows only and he has MAC.
Anybody else come across this and solved the problem?

Well I have a 660 and am still using Basecamp to transfer routes, well I did 6 months ago and I have a Mac. Not sure what version of Basecamp I'm using, I'll check

Version 4.6.3 

I have no problems transferring routes from BaseCamp (Version 4.4.7) to my 660.

Could be him then.  What age are your units.

RTman10 wrote:What age are your units.

March 2011.

Two yrs ago I had the same problem with Basecamp and a new Zumo 660, so I went back to Mapsource which to be honest I found more user friendly.

I contacted Garmin and was told basically the same they sent me a E mail

" Since Basecamp is technically not compatable in transferring routes to this model of Zumo, the process can be hit or miss. it may work for some routes and not for others. I would recommend using the Mapsource program and see if that program tranfers all the routes successfully"

So I did and it did, bloody marvelous :  not speak: :not speak:

Thanks chaps

step2534 wrote: Two yrs ago I had the same problem with Basecamp and a new Zumo 660, so I went back to Mapsource which to be honest I found more user friendly.

I contacted Garmin and was told basically the same they sent me a E mail

" Since Basecamp is technically not compatable in transferring routes to this model of Zumo, the process can be hit or miss. it may work for some routes and not for others. I would recommend using the Mapsource program and see if that program tranfers all the routes successfully"

So I did and it did, bloody marvelous :  not speak:not

Used to use Mapsource, but didn't think there was a version for Mac, so if you used it you had to run a MS instance.

Have had a look at Garmin UK , there is no Mapsource my more.  So if you haven't kept it it's probably gone forever.

Garmin sent me a link to download Mapsource, (I will see if I can type this right)

  http://www8.garmin.com/support/download details.jsp?id=209

It worked

Great.  I will let him know,

step2534 wrote:Garmin sent me a link to download Mapsource.

I've read somewhere on here that Garmin didn't support MapSource anymore.

I think that's correct. If you look at Garmin.com there is no mention of MapSource. The link is probably to something that they already had.
I disliked BaseCamp when it first arrived but now find it better.
If you dig deep you will find the last update to Mapsource was in Oct 2010.

The latest MapSource update on my PC is 2016.2.