BaseCamp 4.2.1 is available

Since I downloaded the 4.2.1 the properties page on my tracks will no longer display the correct ascent only the difference between the first and last point. I have to go to the graph and manually check the first and last points to get the accumulated ascent between the two.

Mine are displaying OK so it doesn't seem like a BC issue :confused:

4.2.1 installed this morning. I don't like it. List import is now broken and I don't like the screen display. I don't care about any of the new features. Is there a link where I can downgrade back to what I had before?

Hopefully the Garmin BaseCamp development team will start working on making the Win BC and Mac BC products more closely align. Providing consistency between the two products would make it easier to document/explain, for end users, how to use the programs. I would think some of these user interface items should be relatively easy to fix (i.e, not require significant coding changes). Other changes that require modifications to the workflow of the products will obviously not be as simple. I know the Garmin BaseCamp development team have a lot on their plate, but bringing consistency to the two product workflows and UI is something I would like to see before bringing us new features.

That said, I tip my hat to the Garmin BaseCamp development team, for all their hard work.

We are definitely striving to make the Mac and Windows version be very similar. We didn't do a very job with this in the early days and most of the differences stem from that time. The newer features like Adventures or the Trip Planner should be almost identical. With are trying to fix inconsistencies as we go along.

Thank you for your kind words.

Many thanks.

I sure hope that the folks at Garmin get the help docs up to date..... :-)

We (or rather the Docs team) is working on it. Sorry for the trouble.

Good morning all,
I finally decided it was time to update my BaseCamp for Win7 with SP1. I was running an extremely old version, V2.0.3, and when I had checked for updates online, it said there were none available. Suffice to say, I downloaded and installed V4.2.1 and it doesn't run. There is a whole series of error that I allowed to send to Garmin. I tried uninstalling and installing a couple of times with the same result. Any ideas from everyone?

Thanks,
Ed

I apologize for the trouble. It's hard to say what might be going on.

The most likely culprit is probably your data. It is located at c:\Users\{Your Username}\AppData\Roaming\Garmin\BaseCamp.

To check if the data is the problem:

- backup (copy the whole things somewhere else) that folder, so we could try to restore what you had, or you can copy it back in case there is some other issue)
- then delete above folder
- try launching BaseCamp

Let me know how that goes. If it still doesn't launch successfully, make sure to submit any error reports again and leave your forum username in the comment. Then I can check the logs and see if I find anything.

It's probably easier to just send me a personal message rather than replying here.

Different profiles for each leg

What is the point of having different profiles for different legs of the route? Do I have to manually adjust the profile settings in my nuvi 3590 each time I start a new leg? Currently if the profiles in the unit are not identical to the profiles used in Basecamp the routes are calculated differently.

What is the point of having different profiles for different legs of the route?

For most of us, there is no point.....:confused: I don't want the extra work. But, I usually either ride the Beemer on the slab, when I use autorouting, or the TW in the dirt, when I refuse to have anything to do with auto-routing, preferring a non-routable topo.

With a Montana, I can easily switch profiles, but I still see no use of this feature for my riding. Others, on a long, part dirt, part slab Dual Sport route, may find it useful.

For most of us, there is no point.....:confused: I don't want the extra work. But, I usually either ride the Beemer on the slab, when I use autorouting, or the TW in the dirt, when I refuse to have anything to do with auto-routing, preferring a non-routable topo.

With a Montana, I can easily switch profiles, but I still see no use of this feature for my riding. Others, on a long, part dirt, part slab Dual Sport route, may find it useful.

For now, it's main uses for me are:

• I can create a route that has mixed on-road/no-road segments. This is handy for DS riding as you mentioned and it is quite handy when you want to route in parts of the world that don't have a lot of routable maps or maps at all.
  
• It is a means by which you can add Adventures to your trip Itinerary in the Trip Planner - the Adventure track is converted to a Direct Route and added inline to your preceding and post routing.
  
• When I want to go Forest Road ridging mid-route, I don't have to do a bunch of changing to my Routing profile in order to route me onto dirt roads (or a lot of route shaping with via points), I just change Activities to one I have pre-configured to favor dirt roads.
  

There will be more reasons to use Mixed Travel routes as time goes by but for now these work for me.

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There will be more reasons to use Mixed Travel routes as time goes by but for now these work for me.

But so far nobody has addressed my original concern that if I plan a route (trip) in basecamp that has multiple legs and I choose different profiles for each, or some of, the legs It has no effect on the route that is provided by my 3590LMT because that unit calculates the route based on the profile settings in the unit. So again I ask why does Basecamp offer a feature that is useless?

Richard