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BaseCamp 4.2 beta is live

BaseCamp 4.2.0.2 introduces several new features and fixes some old issues. The Trip Planner, changeable libraries, significant improvement in find, and different profiles for legs of a route are some of the biggies. Note that several features are still a work in progress, but we wanted to go ahead and get feedback on the current state.

A complete list of features:
• Added Trip Planner (work-in-progress) (MacOS 10.7+ only)
• adds easy way to create trips
• create trips over several days
• round trip support
• printing trips
• add destinations along the route
• flying support (airport and flight look-up)
• time zone support
• Added initial support for different libraries which is patterned after iPhoto libraries. Feel free to try the feature out, but note that the next version will possibly break libraries created in this beta. This feature can be found under Preferences->Advanced->Workspaces
• Added support for different route profiles for different legs of a route
• Added support to have different folders and lists with the same name (as long as they have a different parent in the folder hierarchy)
• Added support for UK postal code search
• Added support for Yelp search (work-in-progress)
• Added support for named search (far away POIs should be found if it's an exact name match)
• Added support for category search (you can type "Hotels, Las Vegas, NV")
• Added quick search (hover over the map to invoke it)
• Added Irish Transverse Mercator grid
• Added support for displaying BirdsEye while in Basestation mode
• Added support for displaying and saving the track of the Basestation itself
• Added support for displaying the most recent update time for Basestation contacts
• Fixed issue with Garmap Southern Africa Topo & Rec 2012.3 - NT not being displayed BaseCamp

It can be downloaded from here

Edit: The second beta drop (BaseCamp 4.2.0.4) is now live. Use the above link to get it or go to https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?36289-BaseCamp-4-2-beta-is-live&p=179071#post179071 for more details. Note that 4.2.0.2 will not autoupdate to 4.2.0.4. You will need to manually update.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Please stop adding features until what has been out there is working perfectly.

Actually, I disagree. This thread and the associated BaseCamp code are for Beta Testing and as such the code is expected to have problems that hopefully get corrected with the final release to the public. If you're using it and are having problems let the Dev Team know. But, "perfection" should not be expected.

I would expect that any known issues with respect to not working with Time Machine are being taken serious since that is an important feature of the OS X.

Cheers,

0 azdrmn over 12 years ago

Actually, I disagree. A Beta is a Beta and can be a Beta for the purpose of assessing the attempted fixes to persistent problems and bugs along with introducing new features. The list of BaseCamp issues that need fixing to get them to work is rather substantial, and adding new features will undoubtedly bring along more buggy baggage that will result in the old issues being neglected that much longer. A feature is only a feature if it works, otherwise it's a bug.

If you are expecting bug free code, then you are not a good candidate for a beta. Because of localization deadlines, features are typically added first in a feature release development cycle and previous bugs are fixed last. A beta is largely intended to get feedback on new features. That includes new bugs, usability issues, functionality problems, etc. I urge anyone that doesn't want to participate in the "sausage being made" phase to wait till the actual release.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Trip Planner

Currently, once a Trip Planner "new trip" has been started in "number of Day's" mode, there is no way to change the "Day 1", "Day 2", etc., Icon's to Date's - even if the Route start dates are changed in the Route Properties. It would be much nicer (more intuitive) to right-click on the "Day" Icon and be allowed to enter a new start date. This action would of course change the route properties for all routes in the Trip as well as propagate through the Trip forward or backwards and update all of the data including the screen Icon's.

I work with rather long and complicated trips and I can't pick a start date. So I start with Day-mode and then plug-in the dates - sometimes the end date first!

Cheers,

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

When will a stable version of 4.2.0.2 be released please? I upgraded to 4.1.2 which hangs and crashes every few minutes. So before I go to the trouble of restoring previous version, I thought I'd check when next version is due.

Thanks
Mike

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Trip planner

Really need to be able to Duplicate a Trip Plan as well as Copy Trip Segments between Plans.

Cheers,

0 Killtimer_ over 12 years ago

The other thing we need re Trip Planner is the option to delete all entities not in other lists from my collection when we delete a trip via the context menu. When I delete something, I want it gone.

0 azdrmn over 12 years ago

Currently, once a Trip Planner "new trip" has been started in "number of Day's" mode, there is no way to change the "Day 1", "Day 2", etc., Icon's to Date's - even if the Route start dates are changed in the Route Properties. It would be much nicer (more intuitive) to right-click on the "Day" Icon and be allowed to enter a new start date. This action would of course change the route properties for all routes in the Trip as well as propagate through the Trip forward or backwards and update all of the data including the screen Icon's.

I work with rather long and complicated trips and I can't pick a start date. So I start with Day-mode and then plug-in the dates - sometimes the end date first!

Cheers,

I like this idea. We'll try to get this done in time for the release.

0 azdrmn over 12 years ago

The other thing we need re Trip Planner is the option to delete all entities not in other lists from my collection when we delete a trip via the context menu. When I delete something, I want it gone.

This is on our To Do list. Thanks for the feedback.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Trip Planner & my GPS

OK, I know you're just in the first Beta for the Trip Planner but now is the time to start working on the Hardware Teams (you probably are). Why?

I create some Trip's and now I want to send them all to my GPS - so I do. But, now that I have all of that trip data on my GPS, how do I choose my Trip to Yellowstone? When I look in my Route Planner/Custom Routes or my Waypoint Manger/Favorites I see all of the data that was sent over to the unit but there is no relationship that is obvious relative to my Trip to Yellowstone. And, what if I have two of three Trips to Yellowstone that have some of the same yet some different routings, waypoints, etc. Now I have duplicates/triplicates/etc of my waypoints, routes, tracks, etc.

What we're going to need (along with the release of or vary close to v4.2) is a Trip application on the GPS units much like Adventures but that supports BOTH Tracks AND Routes along with all of the other Trip associated data.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Mixed Activity Routing

I've been using mixed-routing for a long time - well at least since I realized it worked in v4. Then as now, to use mixed-activity-routing one had to either switch maps to a non-routable map and then back to a routable map or use the Activity button in the route properties window. The latter requires you to do some rather unintuitive workflow and constantly redo the along-road routing segments each time you want to add a Direct Activity segment for example. My guess is that the majority of users will not figure out this workflow.

What I was hoping for was that as I created my route, when I switched Activity, only the via points placed after that would be affected. And, once I switched Activity again, my previous routing would NOT be recalculated (which in effect removes the mixed Activity).

Please work on the Mixed Activity a bit more - or enlighten me as to how this feature is suppose to work.