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BaseCamp 3.3.0.2 Beta is available

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BaseCamp 3.3 is here! We are starting off with an early Beta release to give everyone a chance to check out the new features and pound on it for a little bit before we release the final version.

Download it here: http://developer.garmin.com/apps/BC/BaseCamp_3.3.0.2_Beta.exe.

We have incorporated a lot of user requests from this very forum. If your desired feature/bug fix didn't make it into this release, don't hesitate to remind us.

We are very interested in your feedback, please report bugs and oddities you find, and comment on the new features.

This is the change-list from 3.2.2 to 3.3.0.2. I will add some explanations and screen-shots in later posts.

  • Added collapsible list folders and sub-lists for improved organization.
  • Added shaping point support for zumo devices like done in MapSource.
  • Added explicit support for shaping points. These will be transferred to supporting devices.
  • Added support for transfer of waypoint categories on supporting devices. These are displayed in BaseCamp as lists.
  • Added more activity profiles, with improved activity routing on supported maps.
  • Added specific avoidances for various road classes, removed the road selection slider.
  • Added custom activity profiles.
  • Added keyboard short-cuts for editing tools (divide, insert, erase).
  • Added a tools menu for easier discovery of tool keyboard shortcuts.
  • Changed to make GPX files on a memory card directly editable.
  • Changed to read all GPX files on a memory card, similar to how devices behave.
  • Improved graphing of track data.
  • Improved graphing when multiple routes or tracks are selected.
  • Improved layout of geotagged photo, waypoint, route, and track properties.
  • Added additional statistics to route and track properties.
  • Added 'Center on map' check-box on route and track dialogs.
  • Added an easier way to add waypoints to routes (Insert Waypoint button).
  • Added additional data fields to waypoints (such as address and phone number).
  • Added display and updating of date last modified for waypoints.
  • Added display of lists that contain this data item to properties.
  • Added receiving geocache visits from devices.
  • Added logging geocache visits on OpenCaching.com.
  • Added printing of geocaches.
  • Added alternate notification mechanism (less annoying pop-ups).
  • Added display settings to adjust width of routes and tracks.
  • Added support for importing waypoints and tracks from KML/KMZ files.
  • Added suggested file name when exporting (so it isn't always 'untitled').
  • Added more map details for higher detail setting.
  • Added data filters to map view.
  • Added preserving the dialog size for each data type.
  • Added option to reset track's altitude to map data.
  • Added functionality to remember display feature settings per profile.
  • Changed 'Remove List and Contents' to 'Remove list and unique contents'.
  • Added Shift-Delete short-cut for 'Remove list and unique contents'.
  • Improved printing of routes and tracks.
  • Fixed issues with sending routes to the zumo.
  • Fixed elevation profile labels for Windows XP (no longer invisible).
  • Fixed issue when duplicating a route. BaseCamp will now also duplicate the waypoints in that route.
  • Fixed issue with the data filter not being remembered between application runs.
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    Insert waypoint into route does not show hover info.

    When I'm using the Insert Tool, with the rubberband showing, it would be useful to show the hover information over the closest waypoint similar to the Select Tool. This would aid in placing a waypoint and not end up with some nail salon and try to explain why I added that to my route.
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    You can choose a speed for a bicycle, but it makes no difference to the reported elapsed time. This was also the case with 3.2.

    Steve
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    Thank you for this beta!

    I still miss 2 important things :

    - the function to replace a track elevation data with the data from the map DEM; this is possible in the Mac version;

    - the ability to choose the walking speed and also the vertical speed (when going up or down) (and a way to choose a model to combine both when walking on gentle slopes?) :
    I can't understand that you can choose the speed for a bicycle but not for a pedestrian?!
    (I thought that perhaps the new "hiker" would walk faster, but no, he seems to take a few minutes longer than the "walker" on a day walk! :-)
    (Anyway, both are still super athletes, since they ascend mountains at about 5 km/h...!)

    Thank you!


    We didn't implement your second suggestion yet, but the first issue you mentioned is now possible. Right-click on a track, Advanced > Set Selected Track to Map Elevation.
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    «*Right-click on a track, Advanced > Set Selected Track to Map Elevation.*»

    Great, thank you!

    BTW, one cannot select a track any longer by clicking on it. It used to get highlighted. Now, only the nearest waypoint is highlighted. is this the new standard behaviour?
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    offroad route

    I am puzzled by the behaviour of the BC beta when creating a route :
    I can click in the middle of nowhere, and BC will take me there, but only after a long detour by the nearest road... When "walking" on a beach for example, instead of allowing me to walk off-road in a straight line, it will take me back on the road, and then back on the beach from the nearest point on the road to the point where I want to go on the beach...

    It would be so great if we could add off-road pure "jumps" to routes, while keeping a single route for the whole walk... Especially when we walk on small paths that don't exist on the map but do exist in the real world...

    Instead of that, I usually need to create several bits of routes, transform them into tracks, join the tracks and go hiking by following the displayed track instead of a single route... :-(

    Is there a better way? Is this a valid feature request? Thank you!
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    We didn't implement your second suggestion yet, but the first issue you mentioned is now possible. Right-click on a track, Advanced > Set Selected Track to Map Elevation.


    I'm a little confused about this feature. For example, I can create a track using City Navigator - which does not contain any elevation data. I switch over to Topo 24K West and apply "Advanced->Set Selected Track to Map Elevation" to that track. Now, if I right click the track and select "Properties", I see 4 fields, "Index", "Leg Length", "Leg Course" and position. There is no indication of any elevation data unless I click on multiple index points - then I can see elevation min/max/grade/ascent/decent. Selecting "Graph" says that "there is no elevation data in the selected track(s).

    If I create a route directly in Topo 24K, I have an "Elevation" column between "Index" and "Leg Length". I also have an elevation graph in the "graph" tab.

    So, Is there a bug in this feature, or am I just misunderstanding what this function does?

    Regards,
    - Steve
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    elevation

    I am also puzzled : on some old routes (created with last version of BC), the beta displays the total ascent and descent, on others it does not!
    Yet all HAVE elevation data... And BC beta always displays min and max...:confused:
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    Hi there..
    I miss what I consider to be an important feature.. Any GPS related program should assume the posibbility of indicating the coordinate datum when a waypoint is introduced manually, through the keyboard..

    American maps use NAD datum, European maps are moving to ETRS89, but still most of them use European 1950..

    Known programs such as Oziexplorer, CompeGPS allow to indicate the datum of the coordinate you are directly reading from a map so a conversion is done or not at the moment of the saving of the waypoint if required

    I've playing a little bit with this beta and I noticed that you can manage that by changing the options, but a selectable field in the waypoint windows could be more convenient

    Regards..
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    I don't want categories on my Zumo.

    I'd like a switch as to whether list names are a category for Favorites. On a motorcycle, less is more as to button pushes while riding. I want Favorites to show me my Favorites, not another button push from category lists.
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    Beta : same ascent in route and track

    I am glad that in the beta, the total ascent and descent are now about the same in a route, and in the track created from this route (and vice versa).

    Unfortunately, I wonder if the now common result is not over-estimated...

    The old route ascent used to be about 10% less than the corresponding track. I wondered why... I noticed that routes had elevation displayed with 1 decimal and tracks with 0. Therefore the route total ascent was more precise?

    In the beta, elevations are displayed with 0 decimal for track AND route. And yet, the gpx files contain elevation data sometimes with 0 decimal, sometimes with a rather stupid 7 decimals... But 1 decimal would probably produce better ascent calculation!