GraySWTRF wrote:
I found basecamp a real pain the rrrrrsss.
I use memory map to do all the plotting on,which I find much easier.
On the other hand one of our lads seems to get on well with basecamp.
So far the Montana has been perfect for me.
BUT all of these gadgets have you scratching your head for a while,and just takes a bit of practice and perseverance.
Maybe one day someone will invent the dogs do dars in gps,s for our use, and it will put the Montana to shame.
The Monterra seems to have the edge from what I have heard.
Garmin has already been put to shame in terms of software and operating system by mobile phone companies. If they had made the Monterra with a sim, they might have been back in the game a bit. What's the point in paying for wifi facility when you are out on a trail with it? Why did they choose that instead of sim? Cost I guess. But at £600 rrp and a real world price of £400 to enable the best hardware available that can run Viewranger, they are now completely taking the piss out of their customers. Avoid them on principle.
It's just the hardware where they lead. The rest feels like you are back in the 90s.
For newbies and novices, I would say that Basecamp has a prosumer feel to it, where you need to be on it most of the time to learn it, and then some of the time just to keep fresh with it. And this is not realistic for the amount of times I need it. If you have ever had a meltdown with Photoshop, note that the experience was the same for me. All revved up to do a job and you can't even get the file to load. That kind of experience.
I have had 3 Garmins, going back to 1999. So anyone thinking of telling me again to read the manual etc, don't bother!