Garmin Adventures

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.

0 Mogli_ over 12 years ago

Thanks - clicking on a provided link works! But is there also a web page which allows to search for adventures? This one does not, unless I missed it...
http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

The web "view" I think is essential to be able to share to the non-basecamp users who want to see the track, pics, video, etc... but are the type who may not be garmin users. While I know future adventures I will publish will be specifically for basecamp users to parse and grab what they want to load onto their devices.

0 Former Member 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.

Users don't need BaseCamp to see adventures online. They do need BaseCamp if they want to send adventures to the GPS, or if they want to create adventures.

The functionality of the web-site is definitely something that can be expanded on in the future (adding search being the most obvious one).

0 Mogli_ over 12 years ago

The functionality of the web-site is definitely something that can be expanded on in the future (adding search being the most obvious one).

Agree, currently it looks like a marketing website without any functional use besides advertisement.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

deleting an adventure???

falagar,

posted my first complete adventure and wanted to say nicely done to all involved!!!

a couple observations:

only one track can be marked as primary, hence why I joined the multi-day tracks into one track
I may have missing something, but didn't see a way to delete an adventure after it's published. Deleting the adventure in basecamp didn't seem to remove it online, one way ticket ride???
would be nice to be able to filter results by activity, noticed a lot of hiking tracks which I'd like to filter out when using map area search
edits to the adventure via basecamp and republishing can take a while to post, 2hrs later still didn't see my edits posted online

As a result of bullet two above, I ended up running out of patience's and creating another adventure then deleting the previous adventure from basecamp. Noticed after deleting from BC that the adventure isn't removed from online. I'm now seeing two adventures via Find. How does one go about removing a bogus adventure? I want to delete #2 in the screenshot below.

0 NHvZ over 12 years ago

Bourne,..

Fire up basecamp, sign in with your mygarmin account
doubelclick on the activity you want to delete, the activity preference pop up,then (when signed in) you can archive the adventure so nobody can see de adventure anymore, then publisch changes.
thats the way it should work.

greetzz Nico

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

thanks nico, I had to re-download the bogus adventure since it was no longer available in BC, then archive. That seems to have worked...

0 NHvZ over 12 years ago

I think that because you are the author of the adventure, you can delete a adventure from any pc/mac running basecamp, but you had to log in with the mygarmin account.
glad that it worked for you.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Perhaps a better way to handle this in BC would be to prompt user to "Archive" the online adventure when user removes it from the built-in Garmin Adventure list

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

only one track can be marked as primary, hence why I joined the multi-day tracks into one track
I may have missing something, but didn't see a way to delete an adventure after it's published. Deleting the adventure in basecamp didn't seem to remove it online, one way ticket ride???
would be nice to be able to filter results by activity, noticed a lot of hiking tracks which I'd like to filter out when using map area search
edits to the adventure via basecamp and republishing can take a while to post, 2hrs later still didn't see my edits posted online

Thank you for your feedback! I'll try to address your list.

Currently there are no plans to have more than 1 main track. But you can have any number of tracks in your adventure. We might expand this functionality with a future release.
To "delete" an adventure, make sure you are logged in, open the adventure's properties and archive it. Archived adventures will not show up on users' searches. There is no need to republish, just archiving should do the trick.
You can filter adventures. In your screen-shot the "Filter Results" link is on the top of the find results. You can filter by activity, and all kinds of other things.
We will try to improve the time it takes for an adventure to re-publish and propagate its changes.