It would seem to me that it is true that Basecamp development is not going to go any further forward. I have not seen anything "new" on it hence the question! it would just be nice to know whats going on and where we stand I have seen it on Garmin forums and various other sites
If there is so0mething new and substantive, please share a citation. BaseCamp has had a couple of revisions in the past year. The Explore website has never been expanded to include mainstream nav devices. "Boyd" at GPSFileDepot still tells people that BaseCamp has been discontinued, but I don't see it. Instead, the Explore announcement now says "Devices that are currently supported by BaseCamp will be continued to be supported in that application." That footnote has long since been removed. That website was/is for GPSMap66 and other select devices.Ī footnote on that announcement said that BaseCamp development was discontinued. Also, if they're going to continue bundling multiple application updates into each release without indicating as much in the name or description then make the installers smart enough to recognize when you have a newer version and don't mess with it!įinally, I don't see in the release notes that the problem with not displaying the latest BlueChart maps has been addressed in this update.More than a year ago Garmin, when BaseCamp was at version 4.6.2, announced the introduction of the Explore website. I'm happy that Garmin is supporting the Mac but it wouldn't take much more effort to be clear about what these packages contain and what is going to be updated. Like I said in my previous comment for version 3.0.1, it is very poor practice to not identify in the installer description that it will be updating or downgrading applications other than BaseCamp. MapManager and MapInstall updates were released quite recently and listed on MacUpdate as separate updates but in fact both listings point to the same download/file which installs both applications, again, without indicating what version is being installed. It's very confusing the way Garmin is packaging updates. This should not even be an issue though because the installer should be smart enough not to downgrade applications to older versions.
When you do a custom install it does show that it will be "upgrading" MapManager and MapInstall applications but it does not indicate to what version which would allow you to unselect those applications if you already have a newer version installed to prevent an unintended downgrade. This version upgrades MapManager to version 2.1.3.1beta. If I were to rate this for a windows device it would be 2 stars. I gave this a 4 because of the difficulty in finding addresses.
The trip is not complete but I will update what I find using the MAC. Even still, I am planning a trip to Italy and so far it has been very smooth.
You would think that there is a way for the programmers to update the software with all the people who use it to add way points or places of businesses that people have found or at least work with Google Maps. I do this in conjunction with Google Earth. A lot of destinations are not there and you have to zoom into the map to find the right spot to make a waypoint.
I recently loaded the program onto my older MAC (I had to upgrade the OS to make it work) and I am here to say, WHAT a DIFFERENCE. We set one with the hotels/B&B's and the other with the entire itinerary. We always bring two devices just in case. To date and the maps were always correct and led us exactly to where we needed to be. We have planned trips to Ireland, Germany, England, Scotland using BaseCamp. I used to use my dell laptop to plan our trips and the program took for ever to load and crashed during planning multiple times in an hour. It is a great tool to load our international vacation trips into our Garmin GPS. My wife and I have used BaseCamp for several years.