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Things that I cannot accomplish in Mac BaseCamp

azdrmn over 15 years ago

We are very interested in learning about tasks that people are trying to accomplish in BaseCamp, but are unable to.

As most people know, Garmin originally had a very technical application for Windows called MapSource. This application was full-featured, but very challenging to use for many users. For a long time, we wanted to create an application that was easy to use by all of our customers.

When we started designing our route planning application for the Mac, we wanted to start with a good looking, intuitive user interface that all customers could pick up and understand. This includes the soccer mom that is planning her car pool route to the hard core bicyclist that is creating a trail map. As with all re-architecture efforts, every feature from MapSource did not port right over in the first versions of BaseCamp.

So we are asking people to tell us what they are trying to accomplish with BaseCamp and are unable to.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

BUT upon disconnect, the GPS still has those "deleted" waypoints shown in the list of Favorites.

This is a device issue not a BaseCamp one. Except for most Outdoor models one CANNOT (there's no mechanism to do so) delete anything via the USB (or serial for old models) interface. One MUST delete in the device itself.

BTW the device has no way to indicate whether deletes are possible or not. Thus BaseCamp tries (giving a prompt etc) but doesn't know whether it'll work or not.

Maybe Garmin's developer should read this.

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?76673-Garmin-company-image&p=266766#post266766

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I had an Edge 305 and then an Edge 705, and both of them came up on my Mac as a volume.
I could delete or modify anything in them, in fact it was easier to use the Mac than use the device.
No doubt the whole of the Edge series do likewise.

I do the same with my Montana - but that's an "outdoor device".

Regards,
Mick

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Thanks for your input guys.....

So it's a device issue and not BaseCamp. SURE WISH BaseCamp would NOT make it appear as if it IS deleting data off the device, because it really looks like is doing what the user is requesting (only to be frustrated over and over upon disconnect.) And again... BaseCamp WILL ADD any waypoint to my various connected Nuvi's. It will move waypoints from My Collection to the device, and from device to My Collection. So WHY would it not delete a waypoint from a device if that's what I select? Remember, the option and steps to do just that are all there(!) ie, "Are you sure you want to delete the selected data from device?"
Arrrrgh.
But thanks.

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Interestingly Windows Basecamp doesn't do that with a nuvi connected, it doesn't allow a deletion to even start. Another difference between the mac and Win version.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 2nd ed., p. 254

:D

PS: I owned that textbook back in my college days. And I actually read most of it.

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

They had books back then did they :p

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Stone tablets :p

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

lol :)

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

No GPS back then either. We had "Street Directories", "Road Atlases" and maps on this stuff called paper :D Somehow we managed to get from A to B.

Anyone remember windshield suction cup mount magnetic compasses? :p

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Yeah, I remember ... it's what made me get a GPS in the first place, my wife was hopeless with paper maps ... we spent more time getting lost on holiday than anything else, now I only have the GPS to blame when we go wrong :)