BaseCamp 4.2.0.4 Beta is available

Happens to me occasionally when inserting an additional via point with rubber band. I did submit crash error report.

Does this version support Custom Icons/Symbols for waypoints? eg Geocache types

I have a number of local routes I've originally had setup for shortest distance routing that I've changed the routing preference to fastest route..

Using Basecamp 4.2.0.4 beta, when I add via points to the routes to keep portions of the route on some of the back roads I prefer to travel, the first couple of inserted via points work OK, but as I proceed to add more, it crashes with an Error Mini Dump.

I forwarded several of the Mini Dumps generated on the crash, adding same wording as above in the user error description section.

thanks,
Dan

Thank you for reporting the crash, we did receive the reports. I believe this has already been fixed and should work in the final release.

I apologize for the trouble.

The Beta crashes, when I try to import a gpx or gdb-file. In 4.1.4, the import works without a hassle.
I sent the crashreport, hope that this suffice to solve the problem. It is reproducable, and there is no difference if i import a basecamp-exportet gpx
or a gpx from a garmin-device.

Don't know if this is the best place to request, but there is a function (change) I would love to see in Basecamp..

I do extensive route planning (was a MapSource user since its creation, now Basecamp) on my personal computers and upload the routes into the GPS when we take the cross country (blue highways) trips... Been doing this since year 2000 and the GPS III+ era, later with the 2610 GPS.

In older map versions such as City Navigator 2009 for the 2610 GPS, you had the option to load the maps onto the PC which made for fast scrolling of the map, and of course, route recalculation.

With my 3597LMTHD, the City Navigator 2013 maps are available when the GPS in connected to the computer, BUT the time it takes Basecamp to re-read the maps each time it is started/GPS connected and, the scrolling/recalculation time is considerably slower, I presume due to the slower USB/memory data fetch read time and of course the sheer volume of map data to be read....

I realize it's possible the current arrangement may be driven by map copyright issues, but is there any way the City Navigator 2013 maps (on the 3597) could be permanently cached on the computer for faster performance? Re copyright issues if that is the underlying reason, it would be perfectly acceptable from a user perspective to be required to attach the GPS for validation, but I would like to see the "re-read" slower performance eliminated.. btw the computer in use in this discussion are current generation multi-core processors and premium NVIDIA GPU.

btw, the above ability to do computer/large screen route planning and research is THE defining feature that makes one want to use a premium standalone GPS like the 3597, (in addition to cell tower independence, ability to custom plan routes) compared to the smart phone google maps which I'm sure has made inroads in the standalone GPS market... I do use the Garmin Smartlink/Android phone google maps as a complimentary function (mainly searching), but waited for quite a long time for the 3597/BaseCamp functionality to come along.. LOVE IT!

Dan

Yes, you can download the maps to your PC and your GPS everytime you update them, provided you use GarminMapUpdater and not Express, although the rumour is that Express will have that capability too soon.

If you have already updated your maps run GarminMapUpdater again and select the 'Install to PC option'. Alternatively if you copy the maps from your GPS onto a sd card/usb stick Basecamp will read the maps off that, so no need to keep connecting your GPS.

When I have the route dialog open, and I double click on a via point the Edit via Point dialog opens as normal. After closing this dialog (either by the clicking "X" or Ok button) the focus goes back to the route dialog but then the list of the viapoints start to "flicker"more than 10 times before displaying again in a normal way. Next sometimes the application window is brought to the front/gets the focus.. cannot reproduce the last point in a consequent manner.

When I have the route dialog open, and I double click on a via point the Edit via Point dialog opens as normal. After closing this dialog (either by the clicking "X" or Ok button) the focus goes back to the route dialog but then the list of the viapoints start to "flicker"more than 10 times before displaying again in a normal way. Next sometimes the application window is brought to the front/gets the focus.. cannot reproduce the last point in a consequent manner.

Thanks for reporting. We'll look into it.

Yes, you can download the maps to your PC and your GPS everytime you update them, provided you use GarminMapUpdater and not Express, although the rumour is that Express will have that capability too soon.

If you have already updated your maps run GarminMapUpdater again and select the 'Install to PC option'. Alternatively if you copy the maps from your GPS onto a sd card/usb stick Basecamp will read the maps off that, so no need to keep connecting your GPS.

Outstanding! ;)

Still learning the ropes with the Nuvi 3597 and supporting software. I had gone direct to using Garmin Express and wasn't aware of the capability in the Garmin Map Updater for this unit.

Just completed installing the maps on the PC using the Garmin Map Updater Program!

It's the support by great folks at Garmin in this forum, and the flexibility built in the products to allow PC to GPS route planning that keeps me coming back to Garmin. Thanks again and feel free to pass the kudos up the managment chain...

Dan

Well cheers, but I'm not a Garmin employee, just a user same as yourself :)