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The transfer rate between a garmin and a pc or mac is abysmal. Much better to download and use openstreetmap to your mac and use that map to plan routes.
Here is a link for you. the map selected is the uk. You will need " Map installer for BaseCamp / Mac OSX platform."
http://osm.pleiades.uni-wuppertal.de/garmin/generic/21-03-2017/32246a81e063585ce20369f059ed8c0f/
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thanks for this. You mention download, but if I google download opestreetmap for Mac there's no indication of an application. I'm fine using it on http://www.openstreetmap.org, by the way.
your suggested way of working is drawing a route on osm, export a gpx, add is as a track on etrex/basecamp. Right?
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Ok, I just received my new etrex 20x. It comes with Garmin TopoActive Europe West + Global maps, and I opened basecamp for the first time to check out how it'd be to plan a route. Is it me or it's just AWFUL? I'm used to connect, where tracing a route is much more user friendly.
On my Mac basecamp is slow, laggy, and you can't even see the small roads unless you zoom like a million percent. Will I get used? Does downloading other maps help? Should I just plan my routes elsewhere? Lupus? Is it lupus?