Changing place name font size in Basecamp

Former Member over 9 years ago

I've been using Basecamp for quite some time now, with great joy. But... would it be possible to enlarge the font size of place names? They are now indicated with a small black dot followed by the name in a font size which is even smaller than street names. I've been searching through the many settings, but can't seem to change this.

I'm using Basecamp 4.4.8 on a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.10.3 (and a Garmin nuvi 3598 LMT-D).

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

I'll send your request to our UX team for review. However, I think they looked at this in the past and decided against because of the amount of work. Not sure though.

You can of course reduce the scale on your monitor to make everything bigger .... or under Mac 'System Preference'-->Accessibility-->Zoom' you can check 'Use scroll gesture...' to allow you to zoom in to temporarily magnify everything. Select Zoom Style of Picture-in-picture for a smaller zoom area.

0 cvarley over 9 years ago

This is a really good suggestion. I'll look into it for a future release.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

I'll send your request to our UX team for review. However, I think they looked at this in the past and decided against because of the amount of work. Not sure though.

You can of course reduce the scale on your monitor to make everything bigger .... or under Mac 'System Preference'-->Accessibility-->Zoom' you can check 'Use scroll gesture...' to allow you to zoom in to temporarily magnify everything. Select Zoom Style of Picture-in-picture for a smaller zoom area.

Yes, thank you for the reply. It's not the size on screen, but the difference in font size on the maps between street names and place names. Place names (being geographically higher in rank than street names) are shown in a smaller font size where one would expect a larger font size (in CAPITALS? #pushingmyluckhereabit

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Yes, thank you for the reply. It's not the size on screen, but the difference in font size on the maps between street names and place names. Place names (being geographically higher in rank than street names) are shown in a smaller font size where one would expect a larger font size (in CAPITALS? #pushingmyluckhereabit

Oh, I misunderstood. Just changing the hardcoded font size of place names would be much easier to do.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Oh, I misunderstood. Just changing the hardcoded font size of place names would be much easier to do.

Dear Wurth, changing this hardcoded font size: would that be something I could do (by changing data in files on the Garmin) or can only Garmin-developers adapt this?

0 JaVaWa over 9 years ago

"Hard coded" means that it can be changed by the BaseCamp developers only. It is not user configurable.