Sharing Basecamp Data

Thanks for the info. I have a tendancy to walk away from one PC with programs running, and use the other for a while, and vice versa.....

Maybe one day when I get more bold.... :D

Reminds me: need to go do the registry hack on my new laptop to get google earth to use dropbox for its data store.

I need that. Can you point me to that hack? I can't find it by searching.

You betcha!
http://www.mutterances.com/?p=112

Thanks, worked great.

Basecamp is very awkward when you have lots of data

I've been using Garmin handhelds a very long time - my first unit was a GPS III+, purchased in about 1997. As a result, I have accumulated LOTS of data that I don't want to lose. But with Basecamp, managing this data is a real headache.

Please either fix Basecamp to restore the ability to work with individual files (like MapSource) or fix MapSource. Frankly, I'd rather you dumped Basecamp and went back to MapSource - it's a lot easier to use.

And PLEASE don't take 10+ years to recognize there's a shortcoming in your software, like you did with the portrait/landscape issue with handhelds. The GPS V worked in both portrait and landscape modes, then you dropped this capability for a decade. That's not progress...

Saying it's 'awkward' doesn't really provide much of a clue, many of us don't find it 'awkward' at all. Exactly what issues are you having, maybe we can help.

Mapsource is no longer supported, and won't be, so there is little point in hoping for a comeback :)

As SUSSAMB said MapSource will no longer be developed. That said it still works (I use it) and can work with newer models for those willing to learn how (i.e. transferring GPX files manually).

I too have a great many GDB (MapSource) files and have no plans to import all those into BaseCamp. For one thing BaseCamp requires all waypoints/routes/tracks to have unique names and I have a least 5 "Home" waypoints that are different and I have no desire to sort out the mess that would result trying to resolve the many name conflicts--especially since MapSource works just fine.

Stuart makes a very valid point. Is there something making you switch to Basecamp? If not just continue to use Mapsource.

Progress

I've been using Garmin handhelds a very long time - my first unit was a GPS III+, purchased in about 1997. As a result, I have accumulated LOTS of data that I don't want to lose. But with Basecamp, managing this data is a real headache.

Please either fix Basecamp to restore the ability to work with individual files (like MapSource) or fix MapSource. Frankly, I'd rather you dumped Basecamp and went back to MapSource - it's a lot easier to use.

And PLEASE don't take 10+ years to recognize there's a shortcoming in your software, like you did with the portrait/landscape issue with handhelds. The GPS V worked in both portrait and landscape modes, then you dropped this capability for a decade. That's not progress...

Hey y'all....

I have this really great software program I just love to use. It was written in BASIC and runs perfectly on any 80's era 8086 home computer, and I have tons of data processed in this way, all stored on 5.25" floppy discs!

Oh, how I do wish microsoft and apple engineers would continue to support that old software and data on todays computers, and I just can't figure out why they are so resistant to doing so.

In not doing so how can they proclaim to have made any 'progress' in the time since?

she serkende

Oh, how I do wish microsoft and apple engineers would continue to support that old software and data on todays computers...

I don't know about Apple computers but on my PC's I have a LOTS of 20-30 year old programs running just fine in virtual machines :) I recently found some data I'd long since forgotten about in a VM that was created from a CD-R that came from a tape backup of a PC I owned in Dec 1994.

It's in the nature of computers and software that data formats, media and so on change relatively rapidly. People that want to keep that data understand this and convert it when necessary (e.g. my many 3.5" floppies were saved to VFD/IMG files years ago. The floppies are long gone but the data remains).

PS: Almost 20 years ago, while moving, I threw away hundreds of 5.25" floppies. At the time (and since) I had no way to read them but I wish I'd kept them just the same. With a little $, time and patience I'd be able to archive them.

The point is that one can do things the "old way" with a little knowledge. Newer isn't necessarily better.