BaseCamp 3.2.0.2 beta is available

Something like nRoute?

I don't have experience with nRoute, but would like to have the requested button so you can see where you are on the map at that moment (with the GPS connected), and planning a route from there.

No moving maps needed I repeat!

Function for dragging routes into place?

I work with routes a lot as I use a Garmin GPSmap 276c which is the perfect tool for off road dirt bike riding.

In MapSource you can plot your route by setting your start and destination way points then manipulate the map onto the roads that you wish to use by using the "select tool" and pulling the route where you want it. This is easy and efficient. To loose this functionality would be untenable.

Unless I've missed it you cannot do that in Basecamp Beta? Can someone enlighten me? This is a necessary feature to keep from cluttering the map with additional unnecessary via points, shape points and poni points.

In Basecamp you do almost the same:

Select the route with the select-tool (the arrow-icon)
Then you insert a via-point at a new location outside the current route, wich then shows the same rubber-banding as with Mapsource.

Above works both in direct-routes as in auto-routes.
If you are not satisfied with the new via-point, you can always move that point with the move-tool(= icon).

In Mapsource it looks as if you are dragging the route, but if you look good, you actually added a via-point.
If via-points clutter your map-display, then there are ways to make the via-points smaller or even invisible. You could use the WinGDB3 for example.

Please don't quote because it is just above your new posting.

What do you mean by "that once you place points where you want the route to be modified then you have to cut out the part you don't want"? If you read well, you should know by now, that you can MOVE an existing point (waypoint or via) to a new location.

In my methode described, you do not cut out parts at all: you only add via-points to force the (re-)calculation to take the new route.

Why (in a beta) bother with context-help? If you take time to read the help, you did the most already.

Btw: my system shows the help immediately..

First, I am not trying to bash anyones concepts, instead I am simply trying to understand the nuances of this updated platform better.

The help file (when opened in my system) does not immediately pop up. Instead it shows as a tab (both in Firefox and Windows Vista Premium) on the bottom of the window and takes sometimes upwards of 10 - 20 seconds to open the pop up itself.

As for changing existing routes, when I add via points (to the beta version) as indicated to force the re-calculation of an existing route, the portion of the route I want to eliminate remains showing on the map. It does not disappear as it does when one uses route tool in MapSource.

No doubt you are aware that when using MapSource and when activating the rubber band feature you are allowed to extend the route to where you wish to place it. When you release it, the new route appears where you want it and the old disappears with the odd occasional dead end that necessitates the via/way points to be deleted. I find this a more efficient way of changing my routes and I plot a lot of them.

You mention (paraphrased) "no need for a context menu in beta". I understand why you are doing it this way, but consider that if context menus were available there might be less confusion in regards to the various functions available and what those functions do (even in beta). Why do I feel this way? I don't think the help menu covers my questions regarding function well enough. That is just me, and its just my two cents.

On the flip side I am most willing to keep learning and using Base Camp and it's various releases. It is already light years better in this form from what it was. Keep up the great work.

By the way, my grasp of the English language has served me fine so far.

The way you descibe how Mapsource removes the old routesection after adding a via-point, does also work the same way in this beta-release of Basecamp.

Maybe you could remove the current version, and re-install the beta again.

I will give that a try and report back as to how or if things have changed.

Deleting and reinstalling Base Camp Beta helped. However I do have some questions.

This is an existing route that I imported into beta.



As noted in this picture there is a road to the south of the existing route. Using the "insert" tool I moved the route onto a road directly south of the existing route.



Now that the route is changed as I want it, I find a via point that is no longer of use. I have tried to find a way to delete it from the revised route but haven't been able to determine how. The piece of the route I want deleted is below your information box.



In MapSource you simply click somewhere off the route place your select arrow on the via point to be deleted, right click on it and choose delete. How does this work in this version?