BaseCamp 3.3.0.3 Beta available

Waypoint Categories

I am using a GPSMap 276c and have 16 categories set up in the unit and in MapSource.
MapSource and the 276c work well together with the categories.
From what I see the categories are not transferred into BaseCamp. Should the categories
that are setup in the gps been sent to BaseCamp?

Mark

We don't transfer the categories per se, what BaseCamp does is to create lists (or put waypoints in an already existing list of that name) for all the categories the waypoints are in that you transfer from the device.

So connect your device, select the waypoints you want to transfer, right-click, 'Send to', pick My Collection.

If you have categories on the device, but don't transfer waypoints from that category, BaseCamp will not create lists for these categories.

I hope this makes sense, let me know if it doesn't.

I haven't had a chance to check out the betas yet. Is there some indication that a list is actually a "category" rather than just another list?

Or to ask it another way, if I have, say, 20 lists in my collection and 9 of them are "categories" and the rest are not, is this obvious at a glance?

...ken...

I have a nuvi 2550 and the trasnfer route doesnt work. The 2550 does not recognize it at all.
The waypoints get transfered fine and show up on the favorites but not the route.
It works fine with Mapsource.

I have a nuvi 2550 and the trasnfer route doesnt work. The 2550 does not recognize it at all.
The waypoints get transfered fine and show up on the favorites but not the route.
It works fine with Mapsource.

I'll have to check that. Anyone else has seen routes not working when sent with BaseCamp 3.3 but it works in MapSource?

I haven't had a chance to check out the betas yet. Is there some indication that a list is actually a "category" rather than just another list?

Or to ask it another way, if I have, say, 20 lists in my collection and 9 of them are "categories" and the rest are not, is this obvious at a glance?

...ken...

I just created a List Folder called ... you guessed it: CATEGORIES. ;)

Now when I create waypoints I just drag/drop from my originating List to the appropriate category-List.

Cheers,

Okay, I've been using 3.3.0.3Beta for, like, all of 27 seconds and I discovered this. In the following post regarding the .0.2Beta ...

https://forums.garmin.com/showpost.php?p=117501&postcount=134

... you said that you prompt for delete confirmation if it's a destructive/permanent delete, e.g. if you hit Shift/Delete on/in a list.

Not!!

Immediately after installing the 3.3.0.3Beta I decided to clean out some junk to start my "category" testing cleanly. So I clicked on a list name in My Collection, hit Shift/Delete and ... it was gone!! :eek: No confirmation prompt.

I clicked on My Collection just to be sure that the original items were indeed gone and they were. Shift/Delete worked exactly as expected -- deleted the list and its contents from My Collection -- but no confirmation prompt.

I did it with three more lists just to be sure. It's absolutely consistent. Clicking on a list name in My Collection and hitting Shift/Delete does NOT result in a confirmation prompt and it DOES result in a permanent destructive delete of the list AND its contents from My Collection.

Looks like it needs a little work. ;)

For what it's worth, Edit > Undo multiple times was able to restore the whole works. That was impressive because the very first of the four or five deletes took out a list containing over 300 waypoints and a few tracks.

...ken...

I apologize if this has already been mentioned somewhere/sometime...

"Sort by..." ... Any time you right-click and select "Sort by" it sorts everything. EVERYTHING.

That is, if I right-click/Sort by in a list, it immediately sorts all the other lists AND My Collection by the same sort criteria.

That's not especially useful.

Please consider restricting the sorting to only the display of the element I've selected, e.g. only My Collection but not the contained lists; only the selected list; etc. and leave everything else alone. It's only a display deal anyway. No need to actually sort the underlying database if that's what you're doing.

...ken...

I apologize if this has already been mentioned somewhere/sometime...

"Sort by..." ... Any time you right-click and select "Sort by" it sorts everything. EVERYTHING.

That is, if I right-click/Sort by in a list, it immediately sorts all the other lists AND My Collection by the same sort criteria.

That's not especially useful.

Please consider restricting the sorting to only the display of the element I've selected, e.g. only My Collection but not the contained lists; only the selected list; etc. and leave everything else alone. It's only a display deal anyway. No need to actually sort the underlying database if that's what you're doing.

...ken...

We are sorting just the displayed data. But the sort column and order aren't remembered on a per list basis. That's why you see the same sort order and column for all lists.

I can see that remembering this on a per list basis could be useful. I'll add a case. That seems more like a nice-to-have feature, so no promises when we'll get to work on it.