Understanding BC Lists vs. MapSource Files

Former Member over 14 years ago

I'm having trouble using the BC collection and lists concept.

With MapSource, I put all my waypoints and routes for a ride in one file. save as and later open to continue planning. I may have another ride I want to work with. I open it, change it and save it.

With BaseCamp, everything goes in the same collection. If I have 30 rides in 10 years, I'll have one collection with 30 rides in it and it will be difficult to manage all the data for them. After exporting a list (ride), if I delete list and contents, I lose every occurrence of a waypoint that may also be in another List. If I remove list, I'll end up with garbage from every ride I ever Imported.

I thought it would be useful if I imported each Custom POI file that's in my GPS, so that I can examine my routes in a list to see if there are POIs I want to visit. Once that ride is over, I'll export it and want to remove it along with any waypoints I may have created for motels, etc., but not remove the Custom POIs that I've setup. This is not a straight forward task.

This brings me to the conclusion that the collection concept isn't working for me. The only answer seems to be to delete everything, import a gdb file, work with it then export it and delete everything again. The first time I forget to export my 25 route, 3 week ride before clearing out BC to look at a route someone sent me, I'll be very displeased.

What am I not understanding?

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

I don't use Basecamp all that much myself, mainly just for Birdseye, although I'm starting to use it more since my Montana isn't fully compatible with Mapsource now.

However, I don't think it's particularly hard to only transfer what you want. Just grab the waypoints (or whatever) you want with the mouse and drag them to the "all data" folder that is shown under your gps device in the left-hand pane. That should copy the items to the device.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

Hmmm, how about - select what data you want to put on the GPS and then "drag and drop" it on the connected GPS.

Cheers,

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

On the contrary, BaseCamp lets you choose which waypoints you want to send. In MapSource you have no choice. It always sends all the waypoints in your current document.

It's totally up to you how much data you want to send with BaseCamp. You can select any or all of the data, or just send the contents of a specific list.

You can also filter your data by type: use the waypoint filter, select the waypoints you want (or all of them) and send them to the device.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

There seems to be a basic flaw in the design of BaseCamp in that it wants to transfer all of the data in the file. MapSource let you choose to transfer (export) maps, routes, tracks, waypoints or some combination of them. Probably 80% of the time I want to transfer only waypoints--either new points I have created from online data and want to visit in person, or points created on the fly which have been revised with better names, street address, etc.

Under no circumstances do I ever want to transfer every route and track I've ever created. If I want to transfer a particular track, Mapsource lets me easily save that track in a separate file, and transfer just that one track.

I'm not going to jump through hoops trying to figure out how to make BaseCamp do these very basic things. I'll keep using Mapsource until Basecamp lets me decide exactly what I want to transfer.

I'm having difficulty understanding this, because what you describe as desirable is exactly what basecamp does. Are you perhaps under the impression that if data appears in the left pane, it has been "transferred"? This is not the case: basecamp will read and display the content of your device, but you must specifically transfer data from the device to MyCollection, and vice versa.