Now scroll around the 1200+ lsit again to find the route I want to copy some WP's from, select it, then highlight the WP's in that route I want to copy, select copy. Now go back to the 1200+ data list and scroll around and try and find those coupel of "fake" points, to delete them from the data. Now find the couple of fake track points I used to create the route, delete them from the route. Highlight the track points in the list I want to copy, copy them, now scroll down the list of 1200+ items (wp's, tracks, routes.) to find the newly created Route, select it, now position the curser at the front of the data list, Past the track points in. So I have to create a fake route, then select the track I want to start with. The reason for time? No sorts or filters. This would take me 30 seconds in Mapsource. To simply create a new route from some saved track points and part of another existing route just took me over 1 hour. How do I know how many are on the list in Homeport? The Garmin plotter (4012) has a limited number of waypoints (1,500 I think) that will load at a time.Īdditions requested from other users such as. I have a large number of waypoints used for fishing. When I select a route for example it takes at least 30 seconds for the small box at the bottom of the screen to populate with the information. On my machine the software takes a very long time to load, and nothing happens, no hour glass, no icon in the system tray, no way to know anything is going on except for the hard drive light. If the area with waypoints is full, there is no "white area" to right select to sort. Unfortunately, Homeport seems to be stuck 7 years in the past in terms of user interface and operation, and documentation for the product seems to be non-existent. Most software today is designed with a certain level of user-friendliness. Why do I have to use the slider? Isn't it pretty standard for mapping apps (such as google) to zoom upon double click? What a PITA! Now I have to wait until I'm at the boat to do this exercise since there's no way for me to power up the plotter without hooking it up to my boat.Ĥ. Now I find out that I have to transfer my waypoints from my plotter to an SD card, THEN I can access them in Homeport. I assumed I could just pop the SD card from my plotter into my computer, access my waypoints, add new ones, etc., and then re-open on the plotter next time I'm on my boat. I bring the plotter home whenever I leave the boat. Why does it have to be so difficult to see my routes & waypoints in Homeport? My boat is slipped at a marina. There's an option to "view in Google Earth" - how is this supposed to work? That option is perpetually greyed out for me (I have both Homeport and Google Earth installed)ģ. Can I do this in Homeport? If so, how? All I see are cartoony maps without the satellite level detail I paid for when I bought the G2 map.Ģ. On my plotter (545s) I am able to see maps with satellite overlay, and increase/decrease transparency of the overlay. Some questions for those of us who have managed to figure out the product:ġ. If the other posts are any evidence, others are too. I am finding this software to be pretty user unfriendly.
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