Basecamp - GPSMAP - Feature Suggestion

I use Garmin Basecamp and GPSMAP64s on a continual daily basis.

I travel full time in an RV and use the GPS for all my road driving as well as the multitude of outdoor activites I undertake. It has been as diverse places as in RC aircraft to skiing to yatching to car racing to mention a few. All traces are stored by type of activity in Basecamp so I am building an ever growing historical record of everywhere I have ever been and everything I have ever done throughout my life.

All my waypoints etc are organised in Basecamp by State and by Quadrant as collectively I have around 70,000 of them.

I load the waypoints to the GPSMAP64s by the quadrant of the state I am in and the quadrant of the next state or the same state that I am headed into.

If I could load my List Folders from Basecamp into the User Data Folder on the 64s so that they stayed as subfolders in User Data, then the process of removing an old quadrant of waypoints out of the GPS would be more simplified than completely deleting all the waypoints fromthe GPS User Data and then reloading the quadrant I am now in.

Sometimes I have done enough prior planning for the next quadrant, that the thought of wiping all waypoints to then reload them does not seem to be the right thing to do.

This leaves me having to slowly click and delete each waypoint in the old quadrant.

Organising my waypoints to start with a quadrant number is not a solution for me as I am travelling between 2 countries and each quadrant has 4 Sub Categories, and these hold 52 individual lists of individually identified classes of waypoint I have to use 3 letters and a dash as trying to follow them only by Icon alone does not work either as it a hugely labourious task on the GPS compared to a Spell Search. The waypoint names on the screen of the GPS get far too long in the initial "indexing" as to show any meaningful data on the GPS screen.

0 SUSSAMB over 8 years ago

This suggestion is probably only required by you and doubtful if Garmin would change anything but you could try posting here http://www8.garmin.com/contactUs/ideas/

Personally I simply delete then reload anytime I change areas of interest that requires new data.

0 BTLAAKE over 8 years ago

As mentioned above, this is not likely to change, but here is something that might work on an outdoor unit like a 64. At some point, you will probably have to rename your lists to something recognizable - say a two letter country code, two letter state code and a quadrant code.

Export two of the lists - by default they will get the list name - copy both lists to the proper folder on your device via windows. Turn on your device and verify that all of the points are there. Reconnect your device and delete one of the lists via your operating system - not via BaseCamp. Disconnect your device and check to see if the data in the deleted file is gone.

If so, you could create a similar file structure in windows and export each BaseCamp list to the appropriate folder. A list can be updated by exporting again as changes are made. Moving quadrants to and from the device would be done by copy/delete of a file through windows treating your device as an external storage unit.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Have you considered using two character coding in base31 to re-identify your regions and sub regions? That seems to have worked for the geocaching site, although they may have moved on to other systems by now due to volume issues.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

If you use custom POIs, you can have them sorted into folders and sub folders.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

If the problem can be solved by not using folders, but by using a "base52" system of running through the Latin keyboard UPPER plus lower case alphabet twice for the first two characters of the waypoint names, then perhaps it would be easier to group the localized contents of each of the 52 lists on the computer for controlled deletion.

The first column of characters would define 32 geographic subsets and the second column of characters would define the 52 List categories, followed by other characters for waypoint naming. 32x52 = 1664 subsets for the first two characters of the waypoint names. Good luck with grouping and deleting with the mouse.