This is the video I have been waiting for.It Shows how to get rid of the annoying shaping point that keep taking you back to the the same route when you want to take another route ,miss a bit or just go off route just for the fun of it.Now I will be able to tick "strip shaping points from route on transfer to device" job done! Thanks a bunch for this video.
Thanks mate, I am going to put all maps on a mini sd card as soon as I get one from ebay. That is a brilliant video also, you are a god send. Thats yorkshire voice I am sure, used to work in the pits there before they shut them all. Lovely people.
No problem, as I said if I can help a few people out the video has done its job. As for the backlight I will have to get the mrs to run a little faster in the wheel to power up the lights! only kiddin! will sort for any future videos that people want me to do.
Hi there Parker, the video's was a great help. Question - In the event that one have to "restart" your route on the GPS device, half way through the route, how does one know what point to select to start, without beginning taken back to the beginning of the route, and without missing part of the route.
Morne Maree if it's the case that you are likely to have to do this I suggest you label some shaping points with town names nearby so if you have to restart the route half way through you can scroll through and find the next town you will be coming intok along your route and use that as the first point to head to. There's no other way that's easy that I can think of. Cheers
Hi again. I have prepared an 18 day tour from Basecamp and transferred it to my 595LM. My question Maestro Craig. I start day one and ride to my first stop, I turn my bike off for a quick stretch or perhaps lunch - do I have to reset my route or will it automatically pick up again and prompt me to the next shaping point? Look forward to your reply. Cheers Alex (NZ)
No, once your route is running, ie you've set off and hit the starting point or first point if you've done it that way then the unit will remember theres an active route even if you leave it off for an hour or two for lunch. Once your back on the bike just carry on riding and it will pick up where it left off. What I say is under no circumstances press stop on the route half way through, if you do you have to manually put in a new start point and delete all the points you've already passed as it will want to take you to the original start and not the place your at now. 👍
Hi sir. you are the man you are answering all my questions I so much appreciate that now from the sat nav share that route with someone else that has a Zumo using your SD card I can't seem to be successful in that transfer I can see it on my card but the other zummo of my mate does not see it can you help with that?
I only use the newer units but are you making a folder on the SD card named gpx and making sure the gpx files are in that folder.? If so you should be able to go into trip planner on the zumo with the SD card inserted and click the 3lines on top left and click import. Failing that you could always plug the other zumos into your comp and transfer direct from BC. If using all 590 and the newer units some have a Bluetooth route share option too . Cheers.
Is there a section in one of your videos that I`ve missed regarding removing the annoying `loops ` that Basecamp sometimes adds to the chosen route - why I don`t know?
the loops are probably happening because the point is being dropped on the wrong side of the road forcing it to do a loop to hit the point on the wrong side and circle back round to get you back on track.
Although I can select ` move point `it will not let me pick up the slight off route that basecamp has put on and pull it back onto the actual route that I have planned> Also how does delete work as that does not function for me either?
Great videos. I find them to be essential to use BaseCamp. I am struggling with the following. In BaseCamp, I rename the shaping points, so that they have a name that I can find on a regular map. The route on BaseCamp shows those names, but the one on the device shows the original names (e.g. the name of a road) which are not useful to know where I am on a big-scale map. What do you recommend?
so you go into the route by double clicking on it and then find the shaping point you want to rename, double click on that and it brings up the edit via point box, you then rename the point and click okay. This should then re label your point and on transfer to zumo you should see it as the newly labelled point noting that it is a shaping point if it is non alerting but as soon as you rename and click to alert, the shaping point becomes a waypoint. If this is not working for you I would suggest you point the points you want to reference in as a waypoint anyway as shaping points are primarily used to manipulate a route whereas waypoint will give you an alert and approx arrival times. Hope this helps
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately neither work for me. I am using a Mac (software up-to-date) and a Garmin BMW Navigator VI. On BaseCamp I can rename both the shaping points and the waypoints. In both cases, on the Navigator VI, I see the original names. This must be a bug associated to the Mac version of Garmin.
I understand the process but do not understand how it will still follow the route (and not go to Fastest route) if we remove all the shaping points. We have to add many shaping points when creating a route to make sure the satnav does not recalculate to fastest route. How can we delete all these points on transferring to device and it still works? Just a note: I also had that situation when you leave the route and come back, it will show the route but stop giving me directions. Someone told me I didn't have enough way points. Amazingly helpful videos!
Think of it as taking the shaping points away from your screen but they are still within the route but you just can't see them. They are just invisible. You are stripping them out your sight not out the actual route. You are correct in that if you actually remove the points you would defeat the object of making a route.
@@1983lparker Thank you. I will watch the video again with that perspective in mind. I do a lot of group rides and it seems that we always end up having variations in our route. I often feels that my route becomes useless.
@@sylviemorissette6781 yes that's often the case where people use different sat navs with different maps on them and each are set up differently to how they get from a to b. I take people into Europe and although most have sat navs on and possibly my trip route loaded into them, you are better off sticking with one sat nav to do the actual navigation and agreeing on this before you leave! There's too many variables especially on a route that has been designed unless your all running the same unit with the same map with the same settings within the unit
Good morning, thank you for taking the time to create these vidoes. I have watched them all over and over as I'm trying to create routes for a 6 day trip to Scotland later in the year. I created a test route and stripped all shaping points and rode it yesterday missing out a few roads to see what happened. I got back on route but lost all voice prompts. Is this right? Or have I done something wrong? Cheers.
It should give you voice prompts as soon as the zumo realises where you are and it should carry on where you re joined the route. Does it recognise where you are once you re join?
I'm using the 590lm, but it's probably me doing something wrong, I have a trip around the lake district planned for Friday so will create another route and try again. Thank you for your reply 😀
This is the video I have been waiting for.It Shows how to get rid of the annoying shaping point that keep taking you back to the the same route when you want to take another route ,miss a bit or just go off route just for the fun of it.Now I will be able to tick "strip shaping points from route on transfer to device" job done! Thanks a bunch for this video.
Thanks mate, I am going to put all maps on a mini sd card as soon as I get one from ebay. That is a brilliant video also, you are a god send. Thats yorkshire voice I am sure, used to work in the pits there before they shut them all. Lovely people.
How that one evaded me I will never know.. Thanks for a great tip ;)
No problem, as I said if I can help a few people out the video has done its job. As for the backlight I will have to get the mrs to run a little faster in the wheel to power up the lights! only kiddin! will sort for any future videos that people want me to do.
Any chance of you helping me out on your vid on how to send maps to a SD card ,I have run into a problem . Already posted on that vid. cheer Jeff
Hi there Parker, the video's was a great help. Question - In the event that one have to "restart" your route on the GPS device, half way through the route, how does one know what point to select to start, without beginning taken back to the beginning of the route, and without missing part of the route.
Morne Maree if it's the case that you are likely to have to do this I suggest you label some shaping points with town names nearby so if you have to restart the route half way through you can scroll through and find the next town you will be coming intok along your route and use that as the first point to head to. There's no other way that's easy that I can think of. Cheers
Hi again. I have prepared an 18 day tour from Basecamp and transferred it to my 595LM. My question Maestro Craig. I start day one and ride to my first stop, I turn my bike off for a quick stretch or perhaps lunch - do I have to reset my route or will it automatically pick up again and prompt me to the next shaping point? Look forward to your reply. Cheers Alex (NZ)
No, once your route is running, ie you've set off and hit the starting point or first point if you've done it that way then the unit will remember theres an active route even if you leave it off for an hour or two for lunch. Once your back on the bike just carry on riding and it will pick up where it left off.
What I say is under no circumstances press stop on the route half way through, if you do you have to manually put in a new start point and delete all the points you've already passed as it will want to take you to the original start and not the place your at now. 👍
@@1983lparker Many thanks for your great advice. Much appreciated.
Hi sir. you are the man you are answering all my questions I so much appreciate that now from the sat nav share that route with someone else that has a Zumo using your SD card I can't seem to be successful in that transfer I can see it on my card but the other zummo of my mate does not see it can you help with that?
I only use the newer units but are you making a folder on the SD card named gpx and making sure the gpx files are in that folder.?
If so you should be able to go into trip planner on the zumo with the SD card inserted and click the 3lines on top left and click import. Failing that you could always plug the other zumos into your comp and transfer direct from BC. If using all 590 and the newer units some have a Bluetooth route share option too . Cheers.
Is there a section in one of your videos that I`ve missed regarding removing the annoying `loops ` that Basecamp sometimes adds to the chosen route - why I don`t know?
the loops are probably happening because the point is being dropped on the wrong side of the road forcing it to do a loop to hit the point on the wrong side and circle back round to get you back on track.
Although I can select ` move point `it will not let me pick up the slight off route that basecamp has put on and pull it back onto the actual route that I have planned> Also how does delete work as that does not function for me either?
Great videos. I find them to be essential to use BaseCamp. I am struggling with the following. In BaseCamp, I rename the shaping points, so that they have a name that I can find on a regular map. The route on BaseCamp shows those names, but the one on the device shows the original names (e.g. the name of a road) which are not useful to know where I am on a big-scale map. What do you recommend?
so you go into the route by double clicking on it and then find the shaping point you want to rename, double click on that and it brings up the edit via point box, you then rename the point and click okay. This should then re label your point and on transfer to zumo you should see it as the newly labelled point noting that it is a shaping point if it is non alerting but as soon as you rename and click to alert, the shaping point becomes a waypoint. If this is not working for you I would suggest you point the points you want to reference in as a waypoint anyway as shaping points are primarily used to manipulate a route whereas waypoint will give you an alert and approx arrival times. Hope this helps
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately neither work for me. I am using a Mac (software up-to-date) and a Garmin BMW Navigator VI. On BaseCamp I can rename both the shaping points and the waypoints. In both cases, on the Navigator VI, I see the original names. This must be a bug associated to the Mac version of Garmin.
I understand the process but do not understand how it will still follow the route (and not go to Fastest route) if we remove all the shaping points. We have to add many shaping points when creating a route to make sure the satnav does not recalculate to fastest route. How can we delete all these points on transferring to device and it still works? Just a note: I also had that situation when you leave the route and come back, it will show the route but stop giving me directions. Someone told me I didn't have enough way points. Amazingly helpful videos!
Think of it as taking the shaping points away from your screen but they are still within the route but you just can't see them. They are just invisible. You are stripping them out your sight not out the actual route. You are correct in that if you actually remove the points you would defeat the object of making a route.
@@1983lparker Thank you. I will watch the video again with that perspective in mind. I do a lot of group rides and it seems that we always end up having variations in our route. I often feels that my route becomes useless.
@@sylviemorissette6781 yes that's often the case where people use different sat navs with different maps on them and each are set up differently to how they get from a to b. I take people into Europe and although most have sat navs on and possibly my trip route loaded into them, you are better off sticking with one sat nav to do the actual navigation and agreeing on this before you leave! There's too many variables especially on a route that has been designed unless your all running the same unit with the same map with the same settings within the unit
Good morning, thank you for taking the time to create these vidoes. I have watched them all over and over as I'm trying to create routes for a 6 day trip to Scotland later in the year. I created a test route and stripped all shaping points and rode it yesterday missing out a few roads to see what happened. I got back on route but lost all voice prompts. Is this right? Or have I done something wrong? Cheers.
It should give you voice prompts as soon as the zumo realises where you are and it should carry on where you re joined the route. Does it recognise where you are once you re join?
I can still see the route highlighted so I can follow but voice prompts stop.
@@richardlawn1629 that's strange, I'm not sure why this is, on mine it does carry on talking . What unit do you have?
I'm using the 590lm, but it's probably me doing something wrong, I have a trip around the lake district planned for Friday so will create another route and try again. Thank you for your reply 😀
hi again, your email is not working for some reason?
Jeff
Hi can you email me direct please with your problem . Lparker9983@hotmail.com