New BaseCamp software version 4.2.1 as of June 21, 2013

[ebbo]

Lots of new fetures if you can work out how to use them all (don't ask me )

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4435

Changes made from version 4.1.2 to 4.2.1:

Added Trip Planner
Adds an easy way to plan multi-day trips
Round trip support
Can print a trip itinerary
Can add destinations along a route
Flying support (airport and flight number look-up)
Supports traveling between different time zones
Can add Adventures that you'd like to take as part of your trip
Routing Improvements
Added support for different route profiles for different legs of a route
Added RV and Truck routing profiles with special route options
Find Improvements
Added support for UK postal code search
Added support for Yelp search
Added support for named POI search (far away POIs should be found if it's an exact name match)
Added support for POI category search (you can type 'Hotels, Las Vegas, NV')
Added quick search (hover over the map to invoke it)
Added ability to display more search results
Fixed various find issues
Basestation Improvements
Added support for displaying BirdsEye while in Basestation mode
Added support for displaying and saving the track of the Basestation itself
Added support for displaying the most recent update time for Basestation contacts
Added support to have different folders and lists with the same name (as long as they have a different parent in the folder hierarchy)
Added support for changing the location of BaseCamp's database
Added Irish Transverse Mercator grid
Fixed an issue where roads from the base map were displaying along with roads from the detailed map
Fixed an issue where BaseCamp was not displaying properly localized map labels
Fixed issue with Garmap Southern Africa Topo & Rec 2012.3 NT not being displayed in BaseCamp
Fixed an issue with certain file names for Adventures and Garmin Cloud

 

[Wapping]

Added Irish Transverse Mercator grid

If only this had not been announced on a day when the likelihood of future generations having three distinct genetic codes dominates the news.

The world will never be the same again, particularly in Inistioge.

 

[cookie]

Uk post code search

 

[Nutty]

About time

 

[Bryn]

Scuse my ignorance.. but is this for windows only? just had a look and there's no mention of an update for basecamp on mac

 

[cookie]

i just searched garmin.com for "basecamp". it didn't find anything

clowns.

 

[John Armstrong]

Scuse my ignorance.. but is this for windows only? just had a look and there's no mention of an update for basecamp on mac

Just looked and it seems the latest for the mac is 4.1.2:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4449

 

[mvrandery]

Scuse my ignorance.. but is this for windows only? just had a look and there's no mention of an update for basecamp on mac

Seems like Windows only, can't find any mention of the new version for OSX on their website.

They'll get around to it, hopefully soon.

 

[Bryn]

Just looked and it seems the latest for the mac is 4.1.2:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4449

ah... got that one already

 

[Nutty]

ah... got that one already

Me too. I got excited then

 

[John Armstrong]

ah... got that one already

This is a useful site for info:

https://forums.garmin.com/forum.php

especially as their developers seem to frequent and post on it.

 

[mvrandery]

If you want to take a risk - there is a beta for Mac

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=6307

 

[original_concept]

Uk post code search

Not believing it until I see it. Even then its going to tough to actually believe they finally added 10 lines of code, copied from their devices.

 

[Riktus]

If you want to take a risk - there is a beta for Mac

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=6307

Not wishing to be defeatist .... but I think on past history I'll wait for the released version ..... then I'll let someone else test it ....then I'll wait for the posted responses .....then I'll catch up with version 2 ....... when they have rectified all the faults ....... looking forward to using it in 2017!

Rik

 

[Giles]

Sigh ... having downloaded this only a couple of days ago I'm really missing Mapsource! I'm finding this so bloody un-user friendly.

I really hate it !!

 

[original_concept]

Not wishing to be defeatist .... but I think on past history I'll wait for the released version ..... then I'll let someone else test it ....then I'll wait for the posted responses .....then I'll catch up with version 2 ....... when they have rectified all the faults ....... looking forward to using it in 2017!

Rik

Head over to the AppStore, it was released today.

 

[Wapping]

I'm really missing Mapsource! I'm finding this so bloody un-user friendly.

I really hate it !!

Re-load Mapsource, dear heart.

 

[Giles]

Ok Trixie, serious head on now ... !


I've got this new 660 with my new GS (feckin' good bike ... ) and of course Basecamp.

Mapsource was always a disc, and was not 'maps for life' - my last version was a 2010 disc. Is mapsource now available as a download? Will they see 'Ahh Giles - yep he's a good bod and has just bought a new sat nav - we'll send him Mapsource for free ... ?'

Fuck, I hate being a ludite, I am just so computer illiterate ...

 

[Giles]

Edit .... having had a look on Google, it looks like Mapsource is not being updated by Garmin at all ..

 

[Wapping]

Mapsource can be updated with the latest maps. I did it a week or so ago.

Whether it will last forever I don't know.

To be frank, I update my GPS maps less and less often. Much of the new data that comes with each update is not so much roads (other than new ones, they don't really change that much) but the data that sits behind... Road speed limits, hotels and other Points of Interest, most of which I can either use my eyes for or find the exact street address via a Google search and create a Waypoint manually. Similarly, I have no great need for inch perfect detailed mapping of Helsinki or downtown Lisbon as I won't be going to either on my motorcycle anytime soon.

I have no use of Basecamp's bells'n'whistles 'Motorcycle routing' or whatever it's called. I can work out where I want to go exactly, without help from some geek's idea of what constitutes a 'great road, mate'.

You should be able to download a basic version of Mapsource from the Garmin website, then update it with the new maps, just like normal. If you want a disc with it on, PM your address and I'll lob mine in the post to you.... I would like it back, as I suspect they might become rare.



Here you go.....


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=download+mapsource+free&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari


This might be handy, too.....

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=DBlS0fzWjbY&desktop_uri=/watch?v=DBlS0fzWjbY

It is of course theft. But, like murder, speeding, tiny weeny number plates and riproaring exhausts, only bad if they catch you.