@Ronald-Weaver I struggle to appreciate why many find BaseCamp so much to their dislike. While it undoubtedly has its limitations and lacks versatility, I find it pretty good for planning routesfor Garmin devices. My adoption of MRA is largely down to its versatility in creating and ease in sharing routes for a wide range of devices.
As for your sat nav… and mine (a Zūmo390), and probably most if not all others, regardless of brand, I think a lot of what you describe will be familiar and frustrating to many, and that it all stems from trying to make devices ‘all things to all men’. I see on this forum plenty of evidence of people wanting to plan and execute routes to the tiniest detail, times, durations, POI’s etc, etc. And that’s all absolutely fine, of course - it takes all sorts. Me? I prefer to keep it simple and to take a more laid back approach to planning and riding. I turn off much of what can be turned off on my devices, tend only to use shaping points, not via points, including fuel stops and even cake stops. I/we get there when we get there. I would appreciate a relatively bare bones sat nav option that not only doesn’t, but can’t nag at you every few miles, isn’t over complicated by a plethora of, to me, worthless options and menus and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg… Please!
