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Garmin Adventures

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Former Member over 13 years ago
Any scheduled maintenance on the Garmin Adventure servers will occur Tuedays at 7:45am CT. Most maintenance down times will be less than 20 min. If you are experiencing an issue with adventures during this time, please try again later.

More on adventures here: adventures.garmin.com

New firmware with adventure support has been released for:

Montana
62 Series (includes 78 series)
Oregon x50 Series
Dakota



“Garmin Adventures” is a new feature that allows you to easily share trips and photos and lets you find Adventures by other Garmin users. You can download a track from your GPS to BaseCamp, add some photos, videos and annotations; upload the trip as an Adventure and then share it via the Garmin Adventures web site with friends and family. BaseCamp allows you to author Adventures, and use a playback feature so you can re-live your trip. In the near future, Garmin devices will add support for Adventures as well.

The BaseCamp 4.0.0.4 gives you an early preview into Garmin Adventures. Please let us know how you like it and what you think we can improve. BaseCamp 4.0.0.4 will lead you to short surveys that will help us make Adventures a better product. If you have a minute to spare, please fill out these surveys. Thanks.

Finding Adventures



You can use BaseCamp’s find feature to locate other Adventures. You can download Adventures that you would like to take a closer look at. If you'd like to follow an adventure, just transfer it to your device.

Adventure Display and Playback



You can view details about an Adventure, and use the Playback feature. The Playback experience will be better if you have a Topo map and BirdsEye imagery. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al8CHqOBmg for an example.

Creating an Adventure



You can create an Adventure from any track, either from My Collection or directly from your device. BaseCamp will locate photos and waypoints in the vicinity of the Adventure track. You can add annotations, YouTube videos and additional photos. It is important that you enter a good description so other can better experience your Adventure. Note that you can pick from the prepopulated list of activities or simply enter your own.

Each Adventure has its own database, so you can play around with your Adventure’s data without making any changes in your data in My Collection.

Publishing an Adventure

Once you are happy with your adventure, you can publish it. You can share a published adventure with friends and family (http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/eracerz/hanakapiai-falls-trail-hike-2), you can link the adventure to your favorite social media site, you can use it to back-up your trip and download it again on a different machine and you can help fellow Adventurers find interesting stuff to do.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    I updated the original post with a link to the official adventure website and firmware information.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    Installed the new basecamp version and the 5.9 firmware version for my oregon 450.
    Noticed when i send a adventure to the sd card of my oregon , id did not show up.
    tried to send it do the internal memory, and the adventure show up in my oregon.

    Second try to send it to the sd card, when sending was completed open with explorer and there was a .ADV file in a new map adventures just like the map in the internal memory.
    disconect the oregon from my pc, start the oregon, no adventure show up.
    Connect to pc, start explorer go to the garmin/adventure map, no .adv file in the map.

    It put the GPX file and the image's in the right maps, but is lose the .adv file.

    what do i mis? is it a bug? or cant you send a adventure to sd?

    greetz Nico
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    Installed the new basecamp version and the 5.9 firmware version for my oregon 450.
    Noticed when i send a adventure to the sd card of my oregon , id did not show up.
    tried to send it do the internal memory, and the adventure show up in my oregon.

    Second try to send it to the sd card, when sending was completed open with explorer and there was a .ADV file in a new map adventures just like the map in the internal memory.
    disconect the oregon from my pc, start the oregon, no adventure show up.
    Connect to pc, start explorer go to the garmin/adventure map, no .adv file in the map.

    It put the GPX file and the image's in the right maps, but is lose the .adv file.

    what do i mis? is it a bug? or cant you send a adventure to sd?

    greetz Nico


    Someone else reported this already, so it looks like this is indeed an issue. We'll investigate. Please send adventures to the device's internal memory for now.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    created a new adventure using the latest version that got released today for PC and published it by adding track, photos and waypoints.

    http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/thecyr/katahdin-cathedral-abol-trail#poi-list

    A few images are broken on the web & basecamp version when I download them from a mac. On the PC where I created the adventure, all of the images displays fine.

    The only other thing I noticed was after I updated the firmware on my map62s that there are 2 adventures icons on the main menu. Sending to the device internal memory was smooth.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    created a new adventure using the latest version that got released today for PC and published it by adding track, photos and waypoints.

    http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/thecyr/katahdin-cathedral-abol-trail#poi-list

    A few images are broken on the web & basecamp version when I download them from a mac. On the PC where I created the adventure, all of the images displays fine.

    The only other thing I noticed was after I updated the firmware on my map62s that there are 2 adventures icons on the main menu. Sending to the device internal memory was smooth.


    It looks like the pictures never got correctly uploaded. I do not see them on the PC either. You probably see them because you created the adventure. On the web-site I also only see 2 pictures.

    You can try updating the adventure, and see if that fixes things. If it doesn't please let me know and we will investigate what might have gone wrong.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    republish fixed the broken image issue.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    The only other thing I noticed was after I updated the firmware on my map62s that there are 2 adventures icons on the main menu. Sending to the device internal memory was smooth.


    I have also updated the firmware in my GPSmap 62s from ver 3.90 to ver 4.40 and I've got 2 "Adventure" icons in the menu! Any solutions?
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    I have also updated the firmware in my GPSmap 62s from ver 3.90 to ver 4.40 and I've got 2 "Adventure" icons in the menu! Any solutions?


    I'll investigate. Sounds like a device firmware issue.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    Is it correct, that to see adventures online a user needs to download/install basecamp? If yes that will be a major reason not to spread usage. A web player or small addin would be what most people would use/tolerate (like most other geodata sharing portals).

    For my sharing trips with friends this makes it useless, because they do not use basecamp, won't want to install it and don't need if i use other sharing portals.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    I don't think you need BaseCamp to see the adventure. You just need to click on a link that you received somehow, e.g. through mail or a social network. Try to click on the link in the above post by THECYR and the adventure will open in your browser. You will need BaseCamp in order to actually download the adventure to your GPS. I hope this answers your concern.