BaseCamp 3.3.1 (New Features)

Awesome posts! Thanks... rockin' with ver 3.3.1

Just so it's no all gloom and doom, I'm on win 7 sp1 64-bit and the upgrade worked like a charm. Been heavily using the app most of today and only had one crash when attempting to delete a large number of track points. I sent the error report via the built-in method.

What happens when you click on File>Import, does it work OK then?

Mine as posted above hangs with an AppHangB1 error.

Pain really as my XP PC version works fine yet not on my brand new Toshiba laptop running Win 7 :(.

It's not as though it has loads of stuff loaded either, I've hardly added anything since I bought it, and nothing that's not running on my XP PC.

I've run various registry checkers, uninstalled and re-installed BC but still no joy, and without the Import function working it limits its usefulness, so any help much appreciated.

Missing Ascend and Descend

In the former version of BC a summary of ascend and descend of a planned route was available (planned with CN, switch over to Topo Spain V4 for graphical analyzing).
These parameters are now missing!
A very big PLEASE to get this functionality back!

Activity profile and routing changes



We added more activity profiles, in preparation for maps that will support routing based on activity (mountain-bikers might want different routes that road bikers).

You will now be able to add custom profiles, and you can hide profiles you are not interested in.

You can now adjust which map features you want to display for each profile. Future map products will also draw the map differently, depending which activity you have selected (e.g. we would draw highways less prominent if the activity is mountain-biking).



We made some routing changes under the hood to support activity routing. The road selection slider is gone, to make up for it we added more specific avoidances. This is also the way the devices are going. We are working with the device teams trying to make sure route settings match and routes are as similar as possible between BaseCamp and the device. This is an ongoing effort.

I'm trying to set up a custom activity profile, but no matter with activities i start from, there are always some options grayed out.
You can't set a 100% custom activity profile.

In the area i now the trails and i want to make a profile that walks over unpaved forest trails i can better choose a bike profile instate of a walking profile.
I'm using a routable topo map.

Is that the way it is or do i mis something?

Greetz kale

Downloaded 3.3.1 to my PC running XP and laptop running Win 7. No problem on the XP but when I try to select File>Import on the Win 7 version Basecamp hangs, and task manager reports it not responding with a AppHangB1 error. Any help would be appreciated.

Apart from that 3.3.1 is a great improvement.

I apologize for the trouble. We've not had this reported before. We are running Win 7 on our development machines and import seems to work fine.

Does Windows offer to report that hang to Microsoft? If it does, please do so, and we will hopefully be able to get a stack dump from WinQual to investigate what might be going on.

Do you have any odd drives (network drives, card readers, etc.) that you could try to temporarily disable? Just a shot in the dark.

I am afraid I don't have a good solution about what else to do.

If more of you experience this, please let us know.

I too am experiencing an installation issue.

When I opened BaseCamp, the update message popped up. I acknowledged it. and partway through the install got the following message: "A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file: C:\windows\installer\bcmain.msi."

So, I uninstalled Basecamp and downloaded a full installation file. This time the message is: "You must be running Microsoft XP Service Pack 3 or greater to install this software. Installation will now exit."

My system is Win 7 64 bit.

Next I reinstalled the prior version and was led back into the error loops.

Can you try to manually install .NET 3.5? http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21

And then run 3.3.1's installer again.

I'm trying to set up a custom activity profile, but no matter with activities i start from, there are always some options grayed out.
You can't set a 100% custom activity profile.

In the area i now the trails and i want to make a profile that walks over unpaved forest trails i can better choose a bike profile instate of a walking profile.
I'm using a routable topo map.

Is that the way it is or do i mis something?

Greetz kale

There is currently no way to do this. But I can see that this might be very useful. We'll see if we can add this in future version.

Thanks for your feedback.

In the former version of BC a summary of ascend and descend of a planned route was available (planned with CN, switch over to Topo Spain V4 for graphical analyzing).
These parameters are now missing!
A very big PLEASE to get this functionality back!

We do provide Ascent and Descent for planned routes, as long as the map you are planning on has DEM (Digital Elevation Model) data.

When you switch maps, you can still get the Ascent and Descent on the graph tab, if you select the whole route.

Ascent and descent is now stored along with the route, so if we don't have DEM data at route creation (like with CN Europe) we will not display it with the statistics. The only way to get ascent/descent in that case is to do what I described above.

There is currently no way to do this. But I can see that this might be very useful. We'll see if we can add this in future version.

Thanks for your feedback.

Alright, but one question rest for me.
When you look at the posted picture you see the automotive activity profile, and there is nothing greyed out, but i have the "elevation mode" ,"cable cars" and "climbing paths" greyed out.

Why is there a difference in the picture you post, and my installation of basecamp 3.3.1. ?