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My Questions about Basecamp..

TXBobcat
In MS I can reduce the amount of icons showing while I am creating a route by selecting Map Detail Setting from Lowest to Highest.

I believe while searching around Basecamp I thought I found a place to turn off certain icons. When I open Basecamp I see a lot of plane icons for airports. I don't use the airports and would like to turn them off but would like to turn them back on incase I need to find one.

The attachment is an example.

BC

BTW is there a way to post a photo from my computer without having to load it on an internet website?
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member
    I see what you mean .. you want lists within lists within ... or categories withing categories within ...

    But your nuvi can't display that, can it?

    And if you want that sort of detail you can put different what you call 'events or topics' in more than one list/category ;)

    Incidentally IF you allocate different symbols to waypoints/whatever within a list those symbols are carried across from your nuvi to Basecamp and vice versa :)


    I don't have a Nuvi. My eTrex doesnt seem to know about "categories", but I can imagine some devices do.... and if users of those do like I do and only load a couple of lists (based on events or topics) at a time, pertinent to what I'll be doing.....

    ...and don't get me started on the waypoint symbols (not) being transferred to the device. (There's several threads about that.)

    Its really more than lists within lists. Its more like a 2-dimensional matrix.... like a spreadsheet: A "list" is like a line in excel, while a category is like a column in excel.
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    Have to agree with you on the waypoints; they seem to transfer fine onto my nuvi but struggle onto my Etrex 20. I understand it's because Garmin doesn't have a default list that ALL devices and Basecamp adhere to ... utopia perhaps?

    I'm clearly missing what some of you are trying to do. For my use (and it might be more limited compared with some) the recent change to BC that allows categories/lists to be transferred from BC to nuvi and vice versa is a vast improvement :)
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    Categories.

    I have used my categories to organize my waypoints for years. And my zumo does read them, so I can search for specifics, such as Independent Motorcycle shops, or Lodging areas that I plan to use for my trip. I have voiced my disdain for the "list" logic elsewhere, but this is another excruciating example of Garmin alienating it's transportation user base for the sake of activity driven and ipod driven mentality.
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    I see what you mean .. you want lists within lists within ... or categories withing categories within ...

    But your nuvi can't display that, can it?


    Up until the advent of the nuvi design almost all Garmin units had the ability to store and search by multiple categories. These categories were intrinsic to the waypoint, fully user customizable, and had nothing to do with the "list of the day" concept Garmin is now pushing. MapSource has the ability to read and write these to the device, why not BaseCamp?

    It's one of the reasons I can't see up(down)grading my units any time soon.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member
    Up until the advent of the nuvi design almost all Garmin units had the ability to store and search by multiple categories. These categories were intrinsic to the waypoint, fully user customizable, and had nothing to do with the "list of the day" concept Garmin is now pushing. MapSource has the ability to read and write these to the device, why not BaseCamp?.


    With BaseCamp you can fully customize waypoint categories (lists), and BaseCamp writes and reads them to the device.
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    With BaseCamp you can fully customize waypoint categories (lists), and BaseCamp writes and reads them to the device.


    You guys REALLY don't get it do you?!?:mad:
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    With BaseCamp you can fully customize waypoint categories (lists), and BaseCamp writes and reads them to the device.


    Even my 376c and 478? What about all of the Street Pilots and 60c(x), well most of the recreational handheld units still out there? They all accept and recognize categories but I don't think they know a list from shinola. But I've been wrong before. I freely admit I've no experience with the latest Windows BaseCamp. I gave up on it a few releases ago. If full category support for these units is possible, I apologize.
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    0 Former Member
    Even my 376c and 478? What about all of the Street Pilots and 60c(x), well most of the recreational handheld units still out there? They all accept and recognize categories but I don't think they know a list from shinola. But I've been wrong before. I freely admit I've no experience with the latest Windows BaseCamp. I gave up on it a few releases ago. If full category support for these units is possible, I apologize.


    This only works with Mass Storage devices (the ones that MapSource/BaseCamp sends gpx to).

    Devices don't need to know about lists for BaseCamp category support as long as they read gpx, BaseCamp writes the categories into gpx, just like MapSource does for those devices.
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    This only works with Mass Storage devices (the ones that MapSource/BaseCamp sends gpx to).


    So it's totally useless to myself and countless other Garmin customers.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member
    With BaseCamp you can fully customize waypoint categories (lists), and BaseCamp writes and reads them to the device.


    :facepalm:
    We want BOTH, at the same time!
    Both a "X" axis and a "Y" axis. Not a single axis you like to call "X&Y".

    You guys REALLY don't get it do you?!?:mad:


    I think you are correct.
    I'm not :mad:
    but I am :(
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