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 POPEJ. over 12 years ago

Without example you can see that search last too long. Indexed search would take 1-2 seconds for a big map.
And you can see that city is not used as a search input but only as a position reference. This way you get hits in other cities, which is unusable if you look for exact address. And if you don't have city name, you are lost, not like in nuvi or Mapsource, where you can search for a street only and you can get all hits immediately.

Edit: I'm talking only about address search which is an elemental function for roads map and route planning. Without address search BaseCamp can't be a valid replacement for Mapsource.

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

Well I'd like to think that if I was searching for a street I'd at least know which city it was in :)

But I agree with what you say.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

I can't believe this dialog - so frustrating!

It seems that no one except SUSSAMB can do an elementary search. Maybe SUSSAMB could help us all by giving us examples on how he/she makes it work.
Isn't that a noval idea?

0 POPEJ. over 12 years ago

I get better results if I use address with city repeated twice: street, city, city. This works in City Navigator but not on my maps.

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

I can't believe this dialog - so frustrating!

It seems that no one except SUSSAMB can do an elementary search. Maybe SUSSAMB could help us all by giving us examples on how he/she makes it work.
Isn't that a noval idea?

Try this. Hit Ctrl + Alt +F or from the toolbar Find, Find Options

Ensure the address radio button is selected.

Start to type the town in the Location box, unless you want to search from 'Center of view', until you see the one you want in the drop down list. Select it.

Now type the address in the search box and hit Enter

Basecamp should recenter to the selected town and start to populate the possible locations.

In UK just type the postcode into the search box :)

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

I get better results if I use address with city repeated twice: street, city, city. This works in City Navigator but not on my maps.

Strangely that doesn't work for me :(

0 POPEJ. over 12 years ago

This double city is probably a bug in City Navigator Poland. The right format of search query shows ... Mapsurce :)

An example: search for "Weg Naar As, Genk" in City Navigator Europe 2013.41.

In Mapsource I get immediate results with structure like "Weg Naar As 7, Genk, Limburg, BEL".
In BaseCamp search for "Weg Naar As, Genk" gives one wrong hit after minute or two of waiting.
Serch for "Weg Naar As 7, Genk, Limburg" gives immediate results.

In Poland Mapsource gives results like for example: "Ulica Marszałkowska, Warszawa, Warszawa, POL". Evidently Garmin used city name instead of region name. And this explain too, why double city doesn't work on other maps.

0 SUSSAMB over 12 years ago

Guess it also explains why there's more than one way to skin this particular cat ... thanks for posting that :)

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

My references to poor or non-existent ability to start a trip was about the BC Beta "trip planning". Regular BC while very slow and somertimes incorrect does okay at finding addresses.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

So far it seems to do what I would like to do, although I've just started testing it.

The question is, how to get rid of that darn target at the destination??? I made a little test trip and it worked fine. So I deleted the entire trip. But the red "pin" with the target in it remained at the destination. I looked all over to try to figure out how to get rid of it. Finally I exited Basecamp and came back in.

There's gotta be a better way to clear that destination point!