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Basecamp Windows Trip Planner Feature is here! (BETA)

Trip Planner Feature is here! (BETA)

Former Member over 12 years ago

Hello! My name is Jason. I am a fairly new desktop apps developer here at Garmin, and I would like to introduce everyone to our new Trip Planner feature! Trip Planner is still in Beta, but we were hoping here on our team that we could get some feedback in the hopes of improving what we have created. Please take a moment, download the build, play with the new feature, and give us some feedback right here in this thread. We would look forward to hearing from you!

“Trip Planner” is a new feature that allows you to easily create trip schedules for vacations or business and lets you add points of interest such as hotels, theme parks, places to eat, camp grounds, and anything else that comes with your map.

The BaseCamp 4.2.0.4 build gives you an early preview into Trip Planner. Please let us know how you like it and what you think we can improve.

The build can be found in this thread: https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?37158-BaseCamp-4-2-0-4-Beta-is-available

Creating a Trip

You can set fields such as how long your trip is in days or if you know the dates you can enter them. You can also specify how long you wish to travel in a given day, and whether or not this trip will have return legs.

Starting point and Ending point

You can search for just about anything you would like to travel to and from. In the example posted below, we go from one city to another and once trip planner has created your routes, you can enter in the specific locations where you will be traveling from and to.

Viewing your Trip

Once your trip is created you can view your routes!

Editing your Trip

You can move points of interest up and down, you can create new hubs, and you can drag and drop find results into your trip. You can search along the route for points of interest in a given day, and you can also create days and new destinations. Trip planner takes care of the rest! You can even print your trip!

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Why not get Basecamp itself working properly first, then worry about new, additional features later?

+10!!!! :mad:

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I have tried the Trip-planner for a six-day tour including some ferry-crossings. I liked the time-line, that's a big improvement. But, on this trip we have not ordered any hotels for two of the nights. The result is we do not see any route. I would have expected the Trip-planner to make a long route all the way. But I only see a route between the waypoints on the same day.

Currently, the only route(s) you can see outlined on the map are ones that are selected. For example, if you click on a single day, you will see that leg on the map. If you click on a "hub" you will see all of the routes in that hub. Currently there is not a way from the perspective of the map to select the entire trip so that all of the routes are shown at once. This might be something we will consider adding as this might prove useful, as in your case.

On one of the stages I want another route than BaseCamp suggested. But when I try to edit the route with drag-and-drop, I am told to close Trip-planner. It seems I can only adjust the route by finding some POI, Waypoint or adress and insert. All the stages came up with the "driving" profile, I did not manage to change this to Motorcycling or any other of my own activity profiles.

[email][email protected][/email], can you tell me what you dragged and dropped? Were you dragging the route on the map or were you dragging a point within Trip Planner? These are very different of course. Not all of BaseCamp's functions are available while Trip Planner is open, but as we improve the feature over time, this will mature.

You can change your activity profile on each point. All you have to do is hover over the "car" icon for driving, and you will see a box appear to let you know it may be clicked. Then click it, a drop down appears, and then you can change the activity profile for a specific stage of a route within Trip Planner.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Thank you, JM47048
I tried to drag and drop like I normally do on the map.
Good to know there are plans for improvements. In my opinion it is not very useful as long as only one day is shown on the map. I suppose I am not the only one who plan a route without having booked all the hotels during the trip. For me, that is two nights which led to one day without any route at all.

Joachim

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Originally Posted by FALAGAR
But Find is not really what we are testing here

Reply posted by popej
I'm sorry to hear that you don't find it relevant.

I tried over and over to start a trip but the software couldn't find any address, city or mark that I tried. If one cannot start the first step, what good is the program? Popej is right on, it is very relevant!

Someone said fix Basecamp before you start other features. I agree with that person as well. It seems there have been a lot of Basecamp problems reported but nothing gets fixed. One that aggravates me the most is transferring routes to my Nuvi 3590. Some routes transfer all the waypoints some do not! I have to double check every transfer to see if it all the data got to my Nuvi. I have changed and deleted the none transferring waypoints and re-creating them and still they don't all transfer - very annoying to say the least.

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

What map do you have loaded in Basecamp? Bear in mind it just comes with a very simple basemap, unless you have installed more detailed maps you will need to have your nuvi connected to your PC to enable BC to find addresses etc.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Dear Garmin developers,

What are the design rules you used to create this Tripplanner, what where the goals and what are the rules and specifications you used and followed during development?

Please share them with us, then it is much easier to understand what you build and how we should us this. This also applies to the roadbook where Garmin wants to go to with this function.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Using 2013 map plus 2014 via connected Nuvi. Same problem regardless of map.

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Perhaps then you could give some examples of addresses that aren't working and how you're trying to enter the address?

0 POPEJ. over 11 years ago

Problem of address search is known, with many examples. We know that there is no indexed address search like in GPS or discontinued PC programs (Mapsource or Mobile PC). In case of trips, problem is with basing on faulty function to build extra features, which actually aren't important for users. So it is rather about resource management and developers priorities, than digging again the same issue.

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Difficult to know why though without examples. In many cases it can work with just an alteration to the method being used. With the latest BC I have no problems finding cities, addresses etc ... at least in the UK :)

That's not to say that the search function is now ideal, it's not.