Re: Basecamp Zumo XT compatibility
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:41 pm
Thanks for clarifying the fine points. What I should have said instead of "compatible" is that BC is capable of planning long, complex, fun motorcycle routes to use on a 660 despite Garmin making the blanket statement that it is incompatible. In the same general sense, BC is suitable for similar use with an XT.jfheath wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 11:36 pmI think that a better phrase would be not 100% compatible. The 660 doesn't know about the use of shaping points and via points in a route. It used Via points, but they are not as we now know them. So the 660 and Basecamp are not compatible in that repsect.
The XT is designed to use the Explore app for route planning and employs the use of collections, and there are new routing profiles - Adventure levels 1-4, which Basecamp cannot provide. So yes - BC and the XT are not 100% compatible. But the XT will still accept gpx files created on Basecamp and other route planning software - and if it receives things that it doesn't understand, it has default settings of Motorcycle and Faster. And on the whole, BC routes work very well.
There are a couple of things to take care of to avoid the failure of a route in certain circumstances (RUT, changed route point names, and disappearing route points). But these are easy fixes. BC is still the software that I use for the XT1 and XT2.
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Anyone reading the above and wanting the detailed information of these issues - see the link below and the following pages.
app.php/ZXT-P100
-dan
For sure my thought was so that your post is meant in exact this way and i just want to verify that!