"BaseCamp development has been discontinued." There has been a widespread rumor that Garmin stopped developing Basecamp, and now they have officially stated it - see this: It appears they will begin pushing people to a web portal to manage their GPS devices, as described in that article. Their new inReach units and the GPSMap 66 (their newest handheld) are the only current devices that can use the portal now. But with Basecamp discontinued, it seems like this is their new solution. This is bad news, because the current version of Basecamp/MapInstall cannot send maps to your GPS. When you try, everything seems to work OK, but when you look at the map on the GPS, it has no detail. So you can't send a third party map to your device now, like the maps at GPSFileDepot or my maps. My solution is to offer a separate download of the map file to install on the GPS, avoiding the use of Garmin's software. There are tons of threads about this problem on the GPSFileDepot forums from confused users who can't install maps. The only solution is to downgrade to an old version of Basecamp or use Mapsource. I always assumed this was just a bug that would quickly be fixed, but it's been 7 months now and since they've abandoned Basecamp, I guess they will never fix it.Īnd there is a special concern for Mac users. Basecamp is a 32-bit application, and the next version of MacOS (due in the fall of 2019) won't support 32-bit apps. Garmin promised to upgrade Basecamp to 64 bit in 2018, but it never happened. So I suppose this is another reason why they might push everyone to a web portal in the future. TomTom and Magellan have angered a lot of people by dropping lifetime map subscriptions. At least Garmin has been better at that, I haven't heard any serious complaints from people with older automotive devices. I think we are just seeing Garmin adapt to a rapidly changing market and allocate their resources to maximize profit. They probably think Basecamp is already "good enough", and I don't really disagree. But the problem with not being able to send maps to the GPS is outrageous. It just has to be a bug, and not something intentional. If they wanted to stop you from sending maps, they would just discontinue MapInstall, or have it put up a message that third party maps aren't supported.
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