New From Garmin: BaseCamp

 

New out for download to replace MapSource is BaseCamp.

Does more, new tools, yadda, yadda.

At the Garmin website: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4435

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Basecamp is not a

Basecamp is not a replacement for Mapsource.. Basecamp is for TOPO data

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/us/onthetrail/basecamp#frag...
View 24K or 100K topographic maps and other topographic data.

BaseCamp will only recognize MapSource products that contain digital elevation model (DEM) data. Some examples of products that contain elevation data are Topo U.S. 24K, Topo U.S. 24K National Parks (version 3), Topo U.S. 100K (version 4 and later), Topo U.S. 2008, Topo Australia, Topo Canada (version 4), Topo Deutschland, Topo Great Britain, and Topo products produced by many Garmin distributors.

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BaseCamp has been out for a few months now. If anything, BaseCamp is geared more towards the hand-held GPS user market rather than the automotive market since as was mentioned above, it requires that some form of Garmin topo mappiing data be installed for it to function.

MapSource OTOH will function using any type of Garmin map data.

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Interesting

alpine1 wrote:

New out for download to replace MapSource is BaseCamp.

Does more, new tools, yadda, yadda.

At the Garmin website: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4435

OK, I've installed BaseCamp on my PC since my Topo2008 map works with it. The installation went well and works with the Topo Map.

One thing that I notice is that BaseCamp doesn't recognize that I have Google Earth installed since it won't let me click the "View in Google Earth" feature of BaseCamp. My "View in Google Earth..." feature does work with my Mapsource. Has anyone else tried BaseCamp and found that Google Earth View works for them?

I suppose I could uninstall Google Earth, then reinstall it to see if BaseCamp picks it up. But unless I find that I use BaseCamp often, I'll probably just continue to link my Garmin maps to Google Earth via Mapsource. I'm just curious if this is a bug in BaseCamp or some issue unique to my computer and software.

I wonder if it's the new Google

CraigW wrote:
alpine1 wrote:

New out for download to replace MapSource is BaseCamp.

Does more, new tools, yadda, yadda.

At the Garmin website: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4435

OK, I've installed BaseCamp on my PC since my Topo2008 map works with it. The installation went well and works with the Topo Map.

One thing that I notice is that BaseCamp doesn't recognize that I have Google Earth installed since it won't let me click the "View in Google Earth" feature of BaseCamp. My "View in Google Earth..." feature does work with my Mapsource. Has anyone else tried BaseCamp and found that Google Earth View works for them?

I suppose I could uninstall Google Earth, then reinstall it to see if BaseCamp picks it up. But unless I find that I use BaseCamp often, I'll probably just continue to link my Garmin maps to Google Earth via Mapsource. I'm just curious if this is a bug in BaseCamp or some issue unique to my computer and software.

that is causing the problem. I can't get MapSource to connect to Google Earth either. It used to work until I loaded the new Earth model.

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Update

tomkovacic wrote:
CraigW wrote:
alpine1 wrote:

New out for download to replace MapSource is BaseCamp.

Does more, new tools, yadda, yadda.

At the Garmin website: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4435

OK, I've installed BaseCamp on my PC since my Topo2008 map works with it. The installation went well and works with the Topo Map.

One thing that I notice is that BaseCamp doesn't recognize that I have Google Earth installed since it won't let me click the "View in Google Earth" feature of BaseCamp. My "View in Google Earth..." feature does work with my Mapsource. Has anyone else tried BaseCamp and found that Google Earth View works for them?

I suppose I could uninstall Google Earth, then reinstall it to see if BaseCamp picks it up. But unless I find that I use BaseCamp often, I'll probably just continue to link my Garmin maps to Google Earth via Mapsource. I'm just curious if this is a bug in BaseCamp or some issue unique to my computer and software.

that is causing the problem. I can't get MapSource to connect to Google Earth either. It used to work until I loaded the new Earth model.

Update:

I reinstalled Google Earth (which took me from v5.0 to 5.1beta) and installed the Earth PlugIn, too.

Mapsource continues to be able to open Google Earth while BaseCamp continues to have a greyed-out non-functional View Google Earth feature. My guess is that there is a flaw in BaseCamp's software.

Updated- Not true

Found this thread while searching for details about BaseCamp, and it seems that much has changed in the past year so I thought I'd update this by adding:

johnpoz wrote:

Basecamp is not a replacement for Mapsource.. Basecamp is for TOPO data

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/us/onthetrail/basecamp#frag...
View 24K or 100K topographic maps and other topographic data.

BaseCamp will only recognize MapSource products that contain digital elevation model (DEM) data. Some examples of products that contain elevation data are Topo U.S. 24K, Topo U.S. 24K National Parks (version 3), Topo U.S. 100K (version 4 and later), Topo U.S. 2008, Topo Australia, Topo Canada (version 4), Topo Deutschland, Topo Great Britain, and Topo products produced by many Garmin distributors.

Not exactly true. BaseCamp v3.0.6 recognized & reads all of my MapSource maps as well as allows me to select which map is displayed/routed, etc.

IS true that my nuvi update maps DON'T have DEM data and those BaseCamp functions won't work.

Also, referenced here & a few other threads-
View in Google Earth now works fine.
Printing of maps & routes now works.

Except for not being able to select maps and/or map sections to send to your GPSr, BaseCamp seems to be a better route planner than MapSource and almost a replacement for it (MapSource).

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Ditto

JD4x4 wrote:

Not exactly true. BaseCamp v3.0.6 recognized & reads all of my MapSource maps as well as allows me to select which map is displayed/routed, etc.

IS true that my nuvi update maps DON'T have DEM data and those BaseCamp functions won't work.

Also, referenced here & a few other threads-
View in Google Earth now works fine.
Printing of maps & routes now works.

Except for not being able to select maps and/or map sections to send to your GPSr, BaseCamp seems to be a better route planner than MapSource and almost a replacement for it (MapSource).

Same here, maps, poi's , etc all function in 3.0.5 my current version and soon to be 3.0.6

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I'll have to give Basecamp a try

Looks interesting enough to give it a try since I like to save the tracks from all my day-hikes to the PC and view them on the TOPO maps anyway. Looks like Basecamp will have some nice tweaks not found in Mapsource.

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