BaseCamp Questions - working on a teacher's manual

Former Member over 12 years ago

We teach geocaching, GPS and GIS. I am in the process of updating the manual so we can use version 4.1.1. Really like the improvements and changes - very slick. It should be easier to teach then the earlier version.

Have a couple of questions.
1. If students plan to reuse the points and tracks is it better to save as GDB file or GPX?
It seems the default is to GPX. Students might want to reopen a list to work on etc.

2. Garmin Adventure - very slick additional. Can you add a link to the web?

3. IF a teacher wants to use this as a class project, could she save all the Adventures under her logon?
This is sort of a new "social media" approach that students could share with other students.

4. In the "basic description" of the adventure, can you use html code?

Thanks Ed

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

We teach geocaching, GPS and GIS. I am in the process of updating the manual so we can use version 4.1.1. Really like the improvements and changes - very slick. It should be easier to teach then the earlier version.

Have a couple of questions.
1. If students plan to reuse the points and tracks is it better to save as GDB file or GPX?
It seems the default is to GPX. Students might want to reopen a list to work on etc.

2. Garmin Adventure - very slick additional. Can you add a link to the web?

3. IF a teacher wants to use this as a class project, could she save all the Adventures under her logon?
This is sort of a new "social media" approach that students could share with other students.

4. In the "basic description" of the adventure, can you use html code?

Thanks Ed

Thank you for your feedback.

1. That's really up to you. Both formats have some strengths and weaknesses. I'd say if you are saving lots of data, definitely use gdb. Gpx is less lossy (because the gdb version we export is very old for compatibility reasons), but it's a pretty verbose format (bigger files). Gpx is also easier to share with other services. Summing up: use gpx in general, use gdb if you have lots of data or care about file-size and performance. Just make sure the gdb export/import cycle doesn't lose any data that is important to you. Neither gpx or gdb contain list and folder information. Currently you'd have to do a backup/restore to support that.

2. Add a link where? You do get to the website of an adventure if you just click on the title when you have it open in BaseCamp.

3. I am not sure I can answer this question. It should be technically possible, but I am not sure if sharing an account is a good idea.

4. We didn't explicitly build adventures to support this, but it might work. Both on the web and inside BaseCamp we display the description as HTML, so it might just work. Unless the attributes are stripped somewhere along the way, but that should be pretty easy to test. So just try it out!

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Simple question. From your reply, I understand it as followed.
Export --- saves the data but not the folder structure.
Backup --- saves the data and folder structure.

Do I have it right?
Thanks
Ed

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Simple question. From your reply, I understand it as followed.
Export --- saves the data but not the folder structure.
Backup --- saves the data and folder structure.

Do I have it right?
Thanks
Ed

That's pretty much correct.

There are some nuances, for example exporting won't export photos (at least not the actual photo files, just the waypoints), it won't export BirdsEye or Custom Maps either. A backup maintains photos, BirdsEye and Custom Maps.

Depending on the export format, you might also lose some information (I hinted at that in my earlier response). With a backup, you should get back exactly what you had before.