Garmin Zumo 595 that I bought a few years back to replace my previou8s Garmin. It got too nervous and jumped ship somewhere near Talbingo. It was in the sidecar, so I didn't notice it gone.
It seems that the GPS market is changing, Garmin no longer has a strangle hold, with all the telephone apps that are available. Me, I just get annoyed with new versions of anything that I've just got the hand of using. I'm just going to stay put.
Anyway, given that there is no Garmin specific thread here, I thought I may start one.
I'm using Base Camp on my laptop, and the Zumo just has the basic navigation files for Australia. And Europe, as I was there a few years back.
I'm now waiting for Oz Topo to turn up in my mail on an SD card. I hope that will help me find those more enjoyable tracks, as the ones marked on the existing maps are often no longer there, locked off or private roads.
And I hate the auto re-routing that wants to take me miles back along a main road, when the track I'm trying to plot is actually the shortest distance, it's just not navigable on the Zumo.
I'm still looking for tips and tricks to get it all working properly. If it doesn't do what I expect it to do, it's because my brain doesn't think like some programmer's. So I just close it and walk away. It's all too hard, with all the jargon & tech talk.
'73 RD250, '80 XS1100, '81 RD373LC, '96 Tiger 900/sidecar, '02 TTR250, and another XS11 - this time a chain drive Period 5 race bike that may be ready to race eventually.
Garmin must be "so last century". All you technos have gone to ruggidised smart phones? Is that the g.o.?
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'73 RD250, '80 XS1100, '81 RD373LC, '96 Tiger 900/sidecar, '02 TTR250, and another XS11 - this time a chain drive Period 5 race bike that may be ready to race eventually.
I still use a Garmin Ray, but a Montana 600. On that you can switch off all sorts of features like auto rerouting, but I don't know if the Zumo is as customisable. The menus ARE difficult to navigate and don't necessarily lead you to the features you are looking for. Very frustrating.
Garmin programmers seem to be deliberately "different" in the way they lay out their systems. It's like their brains are wired differently and apple and android devices seem much more user friendly - what the nerds call "intuitive"?
Despite the difficulties, I prefer the Montana to smartphone apps (used Viewranger on a Motorola for a while) because the batteries last longer and the unit is more heat and shock proof and the screen is useable with gloves on. (Phone screens are so sensitive that even with gloves screen friendly fingertips, they are prone to doing the wrong thing.) My phone stays safe in a pocket for communication purposes.
Plotting a ride on Basecamp, things might be better when you have the new maps loaded (they might only show on your laptop when the SD card is loaded into the Zumo and the Zumo is connected to the laptop. Depends on the licencing I think) but I have also found plotting a "track" rather than a "route" stops most of the annoying "click to existing trail" plotting if there is no trail where you want to go marked on the map. I hate a computer telling me I can't possibly want to do something, just because it doesn't understand. Sometimes tech is not that clever! (Don't get me started on self driving vehicles...!)
I have barely got my head round it but just about manage to do the things I need, sometimes in a roundabout way that was probably not Garmin's intended way!
