Garmin heeft een beta versie van basecamp beschikbaar. Je kan deze versie gebruiken naast de normale versie.
Download de beta via het garmin forum.
Garmin verzameld wel informatie uit de beta versie om het programma te verbeteren, meer informatie kan je lezen op Garmin.com (engels)
In de beta zijn heel veel nieuwe functies toegevoegd. Hieronder een korte opsomming, verderop staat de volledige lijst.
- profielen voor diverse routerings instellingen.
- upload mogelijkheid voor foto’s , momenteel alleen picassa.
- dupliceer functie
- hartslag en cadans ondersteuning.
- fitness bestanden ondersteuning.
- optie om programma info door te sturen (optioneel in volledige versie)
- Hellingshoek word weergegeven bij selectie in track.
Wanneer de beta volledig uitkomt is nog niet bekend.
Een totaal overzicht van alle veranderingen staat hieronder.
Changes
- Moved the various property tabs to a separate dialog
- Added swapping the map and data list UI regions
- Added activity profiles to allow easier changes between common routing configurations
- Added geocache search integration with OpenCaching.com
- Added photo sharing site upload (currently for Picasa)
- Added track statistics that correspond to the selection in the track points list
- Added additional statistics to the elevation profile
- Added display of elevation profile when batch editing routes or tracks
- Added heart rate and cadence to the track points list and elevation profile
- Added route to track conversion
- Added display mode for geocaches
- Added the “Duplicate” menu item for most user data types
- Added continuation of route/track drawing when switching between tools
- Added route avoidance checkboxes to the route options (such as “Avoid U-turns”)
- Added a basic dialog for creating routes
- Added draw order control for new BirdsEye Imagery that is downloaded
- Added user selection of application language (the beta is English only, so this doesn’t have much of an impact yet)
- Added option to restore the application to default settings
- Added tips dialog when entering full screen mode
- Added a keyboard shortcut to snap the map back to North up
- Added file import/export support for the TCX file format.
- Added file export support for tab-delimited and comma-delimited text
- Added properties and create waypoint commands to the list of POIs that is displayed when hovering on the map
- Added optional collection of analytics to help us improve the application
- Added display of the detailed coverage region of card/device based maps
- Added notification to user when updates are available for devices
- Added receiving FIT course points and activity data from many fitness devices. These are converted into waypoints and tracks.
- Changed geotagging photos from a track to add links to those photos in the track
- Changed to not allow changing the location of geocaches when they are part of a route
- Changed the divide tool to create a new waypoint or trackpoint at the division point
- Fixed issue where we didn’t always remove all waypoints created as part of a route