Garmin Software :- Base Camp vs Mapsource
Posted: 01 September 10 10:45 am
I have had a GPSMap 60 CSx for quite a few years, and along the way I have purchased
City Navigator Australia NT and
City Navigator Europe NT
using Mapsource to load them on my GPS. I occasionally use Mapsource to manipulate waypoints and tracks, do routes etc., but for most purposes I now use GSAK and Oziexplorer working with Google Maps to plan trips and so on.
Last night I downloaded Garmin Base Camp and I've had a bit of a fiddle with it.
As part of the installation process it "noticed" that I had the City Navigator map sets, and linked them in.
As far as I can see, Base Camp can do everything Mapsource can do plus it can load satellite photos of terrain into the new devices using the Birdseye subscription service and it has links back into Garmin for other commercial purposes such as updating your maps.
So far I haven't seen anything that Mapsource can do that Base Camp can't, but equally I haven't seen anything that actually says Base Camp is a replacement for Mapsource.
Am I missing something here?
City Navigator Australia NT and
City Navigator Europe NT
using Mapsource to load them on my GPS. I occasionally use Mapsource to manipulate waypoints and tracks, do routes etc., but for most purposes I now use GSAK and Oziexplorer working with Google Maps to plan trips and so on.
Last night I downloaded Garmin Base Camp and I've had a bit of a fiddle with it.
As part of the installation process it "noticed" that I had the City Navigator map sets, and linked them in.
As far as I can see, Base Camp can do everything Mapsource can do plus it can load satellite photos of terrain into the new devices using the Birdseye subscription service and it has links back into Garmin for other commercial purposes such as updating your maps.
So far I haven't seen anything that Mapsource can do that Base Camp can't, but equally I haven't seen anything that actually says Base Camp is a replacement for Mapsource.
Am I missing something here?