Anyone can help me? How to make basecamp as simple as mapsource to export data to a Excel with UTM coordinate....
That is an excellent question!!! I just spent 3 hours trying to decide why the exports I did so easily from MapSource with UTM coordinates don't come out of BaseCamp the same way!!!! Then went back to MapSource and Presto!! it works.
If I have my preferences set to work in UTM, why would I want to export my data to a .txt file in Lat/Long?????
That makes no sense!
BaseCamp stores all data in a consistant format in the BC database. That format is close-to-GPX. GPX is a standard and the format used is Lat/Lon (hddd.dddddddddddddd). When the user changes coordinate formats, BC translates between the user view (what you see in BaseCamp) and the database.
So, if that is a reasonably close assumption (on my part), we know that BaseCamp can do the conversion. What would seem to be the issue is why can't the Export feature do the same translation? My assumption is that the Export feature pulls the user data for export from BaseCamps database (which is close-to-GPX) but the Export translator does not know "how" to talk to BaseCamp's settings to determine what position format and/or Datum the user was using. Therefore, either BaseCamp must change the way the Export feature works or someone must write a special Export translator for each possible format option of which there are - a lot. Either of those options are costly.
If you believe that Garmin is customer driven, I would surmise that there aren't enough people using BaseCamp with a need to export in a format other than Lat/Lon and therefore it's not a high priority. To raise the priority you might solicit UTM [and other format] users to speak up.
BaseCamp stores all data in a consistant format in the BC database.
FYI BaseCamp, like it's predecessor MapSource, uses a GDB file (AllData.gdb) for it's database. Coordinates are stored as latitude/longitude 32-bit signed integers in GDB files.
We switched the export mechanism to use above mentioned Plugins themselves. And Drtbyk is correct, the plugin doesn't know which format was selected in the settings, that's why it always exports in one format. But you should be able to write your own plugin and hard-code the transformation to whatever you like.
We might offer exporting into different formats at some point in the future, but Drtbyk is correct again, this is not high priority.
