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.
v4.2 [Jun 25, 2013]
- 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.
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