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 Former Member over 12 years ago

I've successfully transferred an Adventure to my Garmin 450. When I go to the list of items in the adventure, I see that there is 1 track, several waypoints, and 25 photos, all as I intended. I had resized the original photos to be 500kb each. The tiny photo icons appear in their proper place on the track map, so I know they're properly geotagged.

When I pull up a list of the photos on the device, and then touch one of the photos on the list, and then touch the name of the photo at the top of the map, all I see is text information about the photo (some of the exif data). Is there a way to view the photo itself rather than just some of the exif data? The 500kb photos are all there, in the adventure file folder on the device's internal memory, but I can't seem to view the photo other than as a tiny tiny icon on the photo list.

That is an Oregon 450? I can see the photos sem-big by doing the following (starting from the main menu). Make sure you have the newest firmware.

1. Go to Adventures.
2. Pick your adventure.
3. Tap the button with the three bars.
4. Tap photos.
5. Tap a photo you want to see.
6. Tap the bar on the top.

Then I get a screen with the tame, a bunch of information, and the photo displayed in the middle of the screen, it takes up a little more than 1/3 of the screen.

Is any of that not working?

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

That is an Oregon 450? I can see the photos sem-big by doing the following (starting from the main menu). Make sure you have the newest firmware.

1. Go to Adventures.
2. Pick your adventure.
3. Tap the button with the three bars.
4. Tap photos.
5. Tap a photo you want to see.
6. Tap the bar on the top.

Then I get a screen with the tame, a bunch of information, and the photo displayed in the middle of the screen, it takes up a little more than 1/3 of the screen.

Is any of that not working?

Thanks for your response. Yes, those are exactly the steps I follow. When I execute step 6, all I see is the text info about the picture, and not the picture itself. I'm running 6.0.

I checked the gpx/adventures folder in the unit, and the pictures are all there, in the subfolder (named with lots of letters and numbers) containing the adventure files.

Is there something else I can try?

0 atlas_cached over 12 years ago

I've successfully transferred an Adventure to my Garmin 450. When I go to the list of items in the adventure, I see that there is 1 track, several waypoints, and 25 photos, all as I intended. I had resized the original photos to be 500kb each. The tiny photo icons appear in their proper place on the track map, so I know they're properly geotagged.

When I pull up a list of the photos on the device, and then touch one of the photos on the list, and then touch the name of the photo at the top of the map, all I see is text information about the photo (some of the exif data). Is there a way to view the photo itself rather than just some of the exif data? The 500kb photos are all there, in the adventure file folder on the device's internal memory, but I can't seem to view the photo other than as a tiny tiny icon on the photo list.

I certainly do not have a clue here, but it sounds to me like you created an Adventure on your computer with BC, including tracks, waypoints and photos - then sent that Adventure to your Oregon GPSr?

May I suggest you first PUBLISH your Adventure, then download the PUBLISHED VERSION, and send that version of the Adventure to your Oregon GPSr?

0 atlas_cached over 12 years ago

Thank you. The link worked. I will take a look.

I apologize for the forum issues, I will keep bugging IT about it.

Thank YOU, FALAGAR!

Your efforts are much more appreciated than perhaps you realize.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

I certainly do not have a clue here, but it sounds to me like you created an Adventure on your computer with BC, including tracks, waypoints and photos - then sent that Adventure to your Oregon GPSr?

May I suggest you first PUBLISH your Adventure, then download the PUBLISHED VERSION, and send that version of the Adventure to your Oregon GPSr?

Thanks. I'll try that, as a workaround.

I do suspect, however that Adventures transferred from BC directly are supposed to allow you to see your images.

I'll give your suggestion a try and report back.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Thanks. I'll try that, as a workaround.

I do suspect, however that Adventures transferred from BC directly are supposed to allow you to see your images.

I'll give your suggestion a try and report back.

Sending an unpublished adventure certainly should work. But please report if it doesn't.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Sending an unpublished adventure certainly should work. But please report if it doesn't.

Thanks. The transfer does work, except that the images (which I confirmed are on my device, in the jpegs folder under the subfolder that corresponds to the Adventure) can only be viewed as thumbnails in the photo list view. When I try to view the individual image itself, all I see is text info about the image. Before importing and geotagging the photos in BC, I had resized the original images so that the images in BC and on my device are about 500 kb.

Thanks in advance for any other suggestions you may have.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Could you attach one of these images that do not show up? I'd like to test with the exact same image.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Could you attach one of these images that do not show up? I'd like to test with the exact same image.

I've attached one of the images.

And I can confirm that the workaround suggested above (to publish the Adventure and then to download the published Adventure) works. I can see the image.

So, just to recap:

1. I created an Adventure on my PC and transferred it to my Oregon 450. I can't see larger versions of the images in the device.

2. I publish the very same Adventure, then download the published Adventure and transfer it to my device. I can then see the images in the device.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Alright, that gives me something to work with! We'll try to fix that for 4.0.3.

Thanks a bunch.