View maps and plan outdoor activities like hiking, biking, motorcycling, driving or off-roading trip. Also, displays the topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D.
Outdoor leisure or business activities such as travels, hiking, and such are better if they are well planned. This program is designed to help you planning those kinds of activities. It may sound like a good idea, but using this program for that purpose has its drawbacks. First of all, at startup, the program shows a screenshot of a video you can play to start using the program. Nevertheless, nothing happens when clicking on the Play button. Also, the program shows a wizard with different options that supposedly will help you with your first steps but again, when clicking on the Video tutorials option, an error message appears on the web browser, saying that the page cannot be found. Thus, you will need to learn how to use it by yourself.
Beside these initial problems, the program does exactly what it promises. You can create a route to travel using it. Nevertheless, the program includes only a very basic world map which shows only general data about each country and region. If you want to get a more detailed view, including roads, highways, streets and satellite images, you will need to purchase and install the corresponding maps. You can also create a New adventure, which is a leisure trip plan, but again, you will need the maps. On top of that, the Trip planner function is not available, as well as other features.
As you can see, the program alone is not very useful. To take advantage of all its functions, you will need to purchase maps and/or compatible devices. Nevertheless, you can try it to see it for yourself.
v3.3 [Feb 11, 2012]
* Added collapsible list folders and sub-lists for improved organization.
* Added shaping point support for zumo devices like done in MapSource.
* Added explicit support for shaping points. These will be transferred to supporting devices.
* Added support for transfer of waypoint categories on supporting devices. These are displayed in BaseCamp as lists.
* Added more activity profiles, with improved activity routing on supported maps.
* Added specific avoidances for various road classes, removed the road selection slider.
* Added custom activity profiles.
* Added keyboard short-cuts for editing tools (divide, insert, erase).
* Added a tools menu for easier discovery of tool keyboard shortcuts.
* Changed to make GPX files on a memory card directly editable.
* Changed to read all GPX files on a memory card, similar to how devices behave.
* Improved graphing of track data.
* Improved graphing when multiple routes or tracks are selected.
* Improved layout of geotagged photo, waypoint, route, and track properties.
* Added additional statistics to route and track properties.
* Added 'Center on map' check-box on route and track dialogs.
* Added an easier way to add waypoints to routes (Insert Waypoint button).
* Added additional data fields to waypoints (such as address and phone number).
* Added display and updating of date last modified for waypoints.
* Added display of lists that contain this data item to properties.
* Added receiving geocache visits from devices.
* Added logging geocache visits on OpenCaching.com.
* Added printing of geocaches.
* Added alternate notification mechanism (less annoying pop-ups).
* Added display settings to adjust width of routes and tracks.
* Added support for importing waypoints and tracks from KML/KMZ files.
* Added suggested file name when exporting (so it isn't always 'untitled').
* Added more map details for higher detail setting.
* Added data filters to map view.
* Added preserving the dialog size for each data type.
* Added option to reset track's altitude to map data.
* Added functionality to remember display feature settings per profile.
* Changed 'Remove List and Contents' to 'Remove list and unique contents'.
* Added Shift-Delete short-cut for 'Remove list and unique contents'.
* Added a confirmation dialog for 'Remove list and unique contents'.
* Added hiding of Activity profiles.
* Added creating OpenCaches from waypoints.
* Added calculating ascent and descent for direct routes.
* Added indication of data filter visibility state on the data list.
* Added recalculation of more than 1 route at a time.
* Improved printing of routes and tracks.
* Change to prevent property dialogs becoming lost off screen after screen resolution changes.
* Fixed issues with sending routes to the zumo.
* Update waypoint references to new map data when recalculating routes.
* Fixed any profiles from BaseCamp 3.2 that have invalid routing preferences (ie invalid vehicle types and incorrect avoidances).
* Fixed list in-place rename requiring pressing enter to complete the edit.
* Fixed the 'Reset Headers' context menu being displayed after renaming an item.
* Fixed issue writing out altitude when exporting to the GDB file format.
* Fixed track filtering 'automatic mode' for tracks with no time information.
* Fixed elevation profile labels for Windows XP (no longer invisible).
* Fixed issue when duplicating a route. BaseCamp will now also duplicate the waypoints in that route.
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