Best approach to plan a 3 week overseas route on Nuvi 2599

tenchy

Later this year I'm doing a 3 week road trip around the US and will be using the Nuvi 2599LMT-D as my navigation device.
Last time I planned all the route (4000+ miles) on google maps and put all the destinations into my TomTom Go 910 to nav to. Only a couple of times did it vary from the predicted Google maps route, one of those was down a long dust track.

I've not used the Nuvi yet for anything than navigating to a single destination I input.

What would be the best strategy to make good use of the Nuvi features and ease of operation?
Do it all on Basecamp?
Convert google map info to GPX?
Just nav to next waypoint(favourite)?
Set up daily routes to load?
Something better I am unaware can be done?

sussamb · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:00 am Post subject:

I've just returned from 2 week trip in the US, and used my 2508 with great success.

I plotted all my stops etc in BaseCamp, and created daily routes. Once that had all been done I sent the lot to my nuvi.

I also downloaded the speed camera files and loaded them.

Everything worked perfectly Very Happy

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tenchy · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:09 am Post subject:

sussamb · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:17 am Post subject:

Camera files do cost from here, yes, but your subscription also covers UK, rest of Europe etc.

How routes deal with diverting depends on how you've set them up. I use waypoints and viapoints only for places where I know I want to visit, for any points used to 'shape' your route ensure they are changed to shaping points prior to sending them to your nuvi (default in BaseCamp is to insert points as viapoints). The difference is that you can skip shaping points should you divert but your nuvi will insist you must 'hit' a waypoint/viapoint, so bypassing it needs additional action by you.

It certainly would be a good idea to try some routes out here before you go so you understand how it all works.
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tenchy · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:45 am Post subject:

sussamb · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:18 pm Post subject:

You can have camera files without any map. Note as I said that if you subscribe to the camera files from here the US files are all included in the price Smile

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M8TJT · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:13 pm Post subject:

tenchy · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:16 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:22 pm Post subject:

Then sussamb's post above rules. If you subscribe to the cameras from this site, then you have access to all of them, not just UK.

sussamb · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:25 pm Post subject:

tenchy · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:27 pm Post subject:

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