Another MapSource feature I'd like to see in BaseCamp

One of the features I used often in MapSource was the ability to select a route and drag it onto a different road than the one chosen by the program's routing algorithm. When I did this, MapSource would create a new waypoint to designate where I'd moved the route. With BaseCamp, I have to create a waypoint separately, then add it to the route in the correct location between existing waypoints.

I participate in motorcycle endurance rallies, and I'll often get over 100 waypoints designated by the rallymaster that I will load into my mapping software (either MS or BC). These will designate the origin and destination of many possible route segments. I'll often have to adjust the exact route from one to the next as I've described, but the BC method forces me to go searching for my newly created waypoint among the many already loaded. Mapsource let me simply drag the route where I wanted it and continue on with my planning.

Thoughts?

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

You can drag the route in Basecamp using the Insert tool. This looks like a pen on the tool bar.

0 C14_Rider over 12 years ago

In the "Help" section, Routes > Editing Points in a Route > Editing Route Points on the Map gves you a brief description of various ways you can edit an existing route including the insert tool, which does the same kind of rubber-banding of the route that MS does. Be aware though that BC does not yet snap to roads, intersections, or POI's when doing this, but this has been much requested and it is hoped that this will be added to BC very soon.

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

That's not quite true. If you have a routeable map and haven't selected direct routing then using the insert tool will cause BC to 'snap to roads' etc.

0 C14_Rider over 12 years ago

Upon testing this more thoroughly than I had before, I see of course that you are correct, thanks for pointing that out.

It does leave me a bit mystified however as to why there have been some posts here and at the Zumo forum that it does not do this, in fact there are some posters who say they won't use BaseCamp until this is fixed... I haven't done a side-by-side comparison with MapSource, but I suspect that there may be a difference in the snap-to distance as a function of zoom level which makes the snap function less evident in BC. Also, in BC there is no visual indication, while dragging the route with the insert tool and hovering near a location, of when the snap is effective, or what feature can be snapped to, as there is in MS. This makes it more likely to miss a snap opportunity. That is a specific request that Falager has said they would see what they could do to make BC act like MS in the snapping function.