My Questions about Basecamp..

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?

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

Use the data view for that.

Hit Ctrl-Tab to activate the data view, then activate the waypoint filter (Ctrl-Shift-W, or use the icon), and you will get a list that is very similar to what you are used to in MapSource.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

While uploding a couple of attachment I noticed the graphic at the top showing the Sum of Attachments. Does this mean that we are limited how many attachment can be upload? I have never seen this in a forum.

What do we do when we reach the limit? Go back through all our posts and remove the attachments. That is a strange feature from all the forums I am a member of...

BC

I use www.imgur.com to upload my screenshots and then I can link them in a post like this (with " />" />

0 TXBobcat over 13 years ago

I use www.imgur.com to upload my screenshots and then I can link them in a post like this (with " />

Your graphic did not work... Or I can't view it...

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0 TXBobcat over 13 years ago

Use the data view for that.

Hit Ctrl-Tab to activate the data view, then activate the waypoint filter (Ctrl-Shift-W, or use the icon), and you will get a list that is very similar to what you are used to in MapSource.

This is great... Thanks alot for the information..
One more question. When you open the properties of a waypoint a number of fields are available.

There are fields labeled: Elevation, Depth, Proximity, Temperature, Street, City, State, Postal Code & Phone Number. To get something to show and sort, I need to select the notes tab and enter the state. As you instructed I can see the state if it is entered in the notes tab which will come up as comments.

If I put something in any of the properties fields they are not shown in the columns when doing the Ctrl-Shift-W. Sort of weird. I would think it would show the information in the properties field not just the Notes (Comments) field..

Any thoughts?

BC

Correction: It does show a few of the fields but it does not show Street, City, State, Postal Code & Phone Number.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

There are a few fields missing, those will be added eventually.

0 TXBobcat over 13 years ago

Thank you for the reply...

I will look for the updates..

BC

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

I believe in MapSource you had to create the categories in the Preferences, then they would transfer. In BaseCamp, the categories are transferred automatically from the device to the computer (as lists) without having to set-up anything.

For the sake of accuracy, this isn't strictly true. Basecamp knows nothing about categories.

You can prove this two different ways:

1. Open a waypoint's properties. You will not see anything about categories. Once you have a waypoint in Basecamp the category element is stripped from its properties because the developers have decided that Garmin customers don't need waypoint categories on the PC.

2. Create a new list and make a route in that list that requires the use of a couple of waypoints. Transfer the route to your GPS. Now do a search (Where To? or whatever) on the GPS and you'll see a new "category" on the GPS with those waypoints in it. The new bogus category is whatever name you gave the list you created the route in. That's because when Basecamp does a transfer to the GPS the developers treat ALL lists as if they are categories.

#1 is annoying but wouldn't be so bad if you could designate which lists are categories and which are not. It's the behaviour in #2 that makes Basecamp unusable for anyone who really makes use of categories but also uses lists for other things.

...ken...

0 SUSSAMB over 13 years ago

I've lost the point you're making here ;)

Lists=Categories, Categories=Lists ... all seems perfectly logical to me and allows me to transfer my nuvi categories to Basecamp and back again whenever I want to :)

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

I've lost the point you're making here ;)

Lists=Categories, Categories=Lists ... all seems perfectly logical to me and allows me to transfer my nuvi categories to Basecamp and back again whenever I want to :)

To Ken and me, Lists <> Categories

For example: You might have a list called "1000 mile drive to Grandma" and another called "Virginia Vacation 2012". These represent events or topics if you will.

Within each list, you might have items in categories such as "automotive", "food", "lodging", or "historical sites".

So, once the waypoints go thru BC, those categorizations are lost. Meaning, when you load up "Virginia Vacation 2012" on your device, you are unable to display only "food".

See now?

0 SUSSAMB over 13 years ago

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 :)