BaseCamp 4.3.0.1 BETA is now available

Former Member over 11 years ago

BaseCamp 4.3.0.1 BETA is now available and can be downloaded here:

http://developer.garmin.com/apps/BC/BaseCampBeta_4.3.0.1.exe

This release does not support XP.

You do not have to uninstall BaseCamp 4.2.5 and it will not overwrite that installation. The BETA and an official release of BaseCamp will live side-by-side but must be used separately.

Below is a list of changes. This is only a BETA release.

Added waypoint categories to the waypoint and bulk waypoint property dialogs
Added the Task Based Startup Menu allowing users to choose what they want to do giving more help into what BaseCamp can do
Added an Address search UI that operates more like MapSource
Added richer context menus in most tools on the map
Added feature to calculate a route that tries to match the shape of a track
Added feature to optimize routes within trip planner
Added a way to make it easier to find recently downloaded BirdsEye imagery
Added a way to filter Adventures by activity when using Find
Added indication of Adventure selected on the map
Added display of route stats while editing the route on the map
Added display of track stats while editing the track on the map
Added a device information dialog
Added support for curvy road route calculation
Added "snap to" indicator on the map when drawing new points in a route
Added ability to exclude track portions in the track join dialog
Added an "Off Road" profile and clarified the difference between Off Road and ATV
Added a prompt to preserve the original tracks when joining tracks
Added a hotkey to open and close the overview map
Added display of distance and bearing in the status bar when drawing routes and tracks
Added elevation statistics to the route dialog
Added statistics display to the bulk route properties dialog
Added ability to remove shaping points from routes in the route dialog
Added display of rubber band when moving a waypoint on the map
Added display of state and country city search results
Added ability to create and delete lists in the "Send To" dialog
Added an "uncheck all" option when managing Custom POIs
Added support for Lat/Lon coordiantes that are missing cardinal direction indicators
Added a comment column for tracks in the data list
Added more descriptive messages if export errors are encountered
Added FIT file support to the Import dialog
Improved performance when device maps are discovered for the first time
Improved balloons on the map
Improved drawing performance of large tracks and routes
Improved performance of filtering a track
Improved waypoint search performance
Improved discoverability of Adventure Edit, Publish, and View Online actions
Improved display of individual track portions in the track join dialog
Improved device communications performance when transferring photos
Improved notification that a subscription is needed for a selected BirdsEye product
Simplified default toolbar layout to exclude some editing tools
Changed the map product selection combobox to be hidden in the default layout
Fixed issue with encrypted Custom POI search (for RV and dezl devices)
Fixed issues with routes that have multiple transportation modes
Fixed device calculated ascent and descent values not being displayed
Fixed Trip Planner crash when adding food stops to trips
Fixed Basestation not updating most recent update time for contacts
Fixed issue with reading photo waypoints that had missing photos
Fixed map points remaining on the map after turning off all points
Fixed Adventure playback not taking track speed into consideration
Fixed a possible error when creating backup files
Fixed various langauge translations
Various other fixes and UI improvements

Post here if you have questions.

The BETA is currently only for English users.

Before using this release, back up your data.

Please post any bugs you may find here. This release is to assist us in testing with a wider user base and wider set of devices. Bugs may be present, and any feedback is welcomed.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I don't know if it will get traction this late in the cycle, but I'll open up being able to change the via point image from within BaseCamp.

To me it's one of those set once and forget things. All Vias/Shaping Points/Route Points/Whatever you call them get the same symbol--that specified by the ViaSymbol registry setting.

0 Canario2.0 over 11 years ago

I would also appreciate the possibility to select different symbols for via points and shaping points on the map.

Canario

0 pietero over 11 years ago

Disappointed to see the 'elevation' vs. 'altitude' display of a track log is still not available :(

0 guyvdv over 11 years ago

thanks for putting the via point issue on the "to do" list. It will be appreciated by a lot of people.

I am a little disappointed in the Trip Planner - New Trip - Round Trip possibility. I thought it was going to be similar to the Trip Planner I am used to use in a German program called 'Motorrad Touren Planer" (Don't google for it as it is not longer sold under that name. It became OnRoute but with less features).

If I choose a 1 day Round Trip in the Trip Planner I guess that start and end point are the same (round?), yet I have to enter an ending point. Or It is set up as start-cafe n°1-cafe n°2-back to start all in 1 day. Honestly, I do not see the point of that.

In he MTP I can choose how many km I want to ride when I choose a round trip and where (NE, SE, SW, NW or a adjacent combination with a fixed starting/ending pont) and the program calculates different routes based on my settings: scenery roads, curvy roads, several avoidances like cities, traffic, high ways...) and it lets me include POI which I can choose. Interesting feature when I am on a holiday lets say in France - Metz and when I want to ride every day a different route where start and end are the same like my hotel for instance.

I included some pictures:

Starting point (Startpunkt): Metz
Distance I want to ride (Streckenlänge): 90 km for instance
Segment I want to exclude (here the SW) (Suchrichtung)
Start search (Jetzt suchen)

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And this is what the program proposes:

I can choose up till 5 alternative routes (here you see 2, green and blue, where green is scenery and curvy). You can see the elevation and route description and all the details that you want. So you can understand my frustration in the Trip Planner - Round Trip possibility. Best thing of all, I can directly export it into Mapsource.

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Any chance of implementing this in a future version of Basecamp?

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

The round trip thing really just means that your true ending point and your starting point are the same. However, you have to go somewhere right? So you have a start point.. home. A destination. A camp site. If it is round trip, Trip Planner will then take you home again.

As far as choosing alternate routes, this has been requested before and is known. We are in the process of discussing feasibility. You do have in the current trip planner a way to put in a max time, but a max distance has been requested. We plan on in our NEXT release of doing improvements to Trip Planner, so there will be some feature enhancements on the horizon.

0 guyvdv over 11 years ago

Yes, starting and ending point are the same. But I do not have a particular destination for my round trip. I just want to ride lets say 300km in the NW of my start/ending point on scenery (curvy) roads and I want the program to display the landmarks I am interested in e.G, castles, special landmarks worth visiting etc... That is for my understanding a "round trip". I do not need Trip Planner for bringing me from A to B and back to A again. Sorry, but then I do not see the point of implementing a Trip Planner. Bare in mind that Europe is not the same as the States and we have lots of scenery roads here. Most of them can be found on the regional Michelin Maps.

0 BigLew55 over 11 years ago

Another improvement that I've not seen mentioned!

Insert into Route using right-click on the selected route. This is AWESOME! I stumbled on to this, but it makes route shaping way easier! THANK YOU!

If you fix the waypoint naming convention so that I can have more than one "BP" in my catalog (but not necessarily trip), and tweak the aforementioned (earlier in this thread) search window dropdown for waypoint categories so that it doesn't revert back to "All Points of Interest" every time, I'm not sure what else I'll have to complain about...?

I'm sure I'll find something.

Maybe Snap to intersection?... :p

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Yes, starting and ending point are the same. But I do not have a particular destination for my round trip. I just want to ride lets say 300km in the NW of my start/ending point on scenery (curvy) roads and I want the program to display the landmarks I am interested in e.G, castles, special landmarks worth visiting etc... That is for my understanding a "round trip". I do not need Trip Planner for bringing me from A to B and back to A again. Sorry, but then I do not see the point of implementing a Trip Planner. Bare in mind that Europe is not the same as the States and we have lots of scenery roads here. Most of them can be found on the regional Michelin Maps.

What you could do is set the start and end to the same point. You'll end up with a no-distance route, but then you can add points that you want to see along your way. That would create what you are looking for.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Another improvement that I've not seen mentioned!

Insert into Route using right-click on the selected route. This is AWESOME! I stumbled on to this, but it makes route shaping way easier! THANK YOU!

If you fix the waypoint naming convention so that I can have more than one "BP" in my catalog (but not necessarily trip), and tweak the aforementioned (earlier in this thread) search window dropdown for waypoint categories so that it doesn't revert back to "All Points of Interest" every time, I'm not sure what else I'll have to complain about...?

I'm sure I'll find something.

Maybe Snap to intersection?... :p

Glad you're enjoying the new feature!

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Getting closer to the Mac-BC workflows...thanks. :cool: