Garmin Basecamp

[Buster52]

I have just bought a Garmin RV 760LMT an having a learning curve for me goes straight up. The tutorial online is not that easy to fallow. I have tried to fallow the youtube videos how to use BaseCamp. All with little luck. I have used Garmin handheld GPS for boats that I have set up trips on with no problem. Is there a place that shows you how to program and set up routes and import POIs?

Buster

[xzyHollyxyz]

I, too, struggle with BaseCamp, but I have not given up.

While searching for some Basecamp answers this morning, I stumbled across this Harley-Davidson mapping program (don't need to be a motorcycle person to use it). Based on loading my first trip from the Harley site to my Garmin Nuvi, I like it.

Might work for others, too...

Harley-Davidson Ride Planner

[TenOC]

If you are interest this is a link to 11,000 truck stops, government and private campgrounds. It is in Garmin file sharing format so you can open it directly with BaseCamp after you download it to your computer. . Link to POIs

The names of the Waypoints may not be very descriptive. I use BaseCamp to plan my route and then focus in a area that I want to either get fuel or spend the night to find what is in the area. This file saves me time and effort trying to find the exact GPS location of a truck stop or campground.

[dkreuzen]

Over the last 12 years I have used MS Streets and Trips, Delorme Street Atlas, Mapsource (Basecamp predecessor), and Basecamp. When Basecamp came out I too fought with it as it doesn't work like the other mapping programs. But having map updates a few times a year made me figure it out. Now I have libraries of Campgrounds and POI's that I can pick from as needed. I can do anything in Basecamp that I did in any of the other programs.
One of the really nice features in Basecamp is the interaction with Google Earth. With three keystrokes I can toggle from an object in Basecamp and show it in Google Earth. Great tool for verifying locations and routes.
Basecamp is a great tool (if you are the owner of a Garmin GPS with Lifetime maps) but the learning curve is high. Like all mapping programs Basecamp has operations I do not like so I have to work around them. Once you master it you will not go back.

P.S. Save time and frustration, don't mess with the Trip Planner.

[bob_nestor]

Buster52 wrote:
Laughing. You panned to the right (east) and that's where Asia is relative to the UK. Try panning left (west) and you'll find the New World.

Bob, I said I panned both ways and it didn't show the US. I typed in my address on the where to start and then it showed me the US. Once you put in the start and finished point it doesn't allow you to add a new point in the trip. How do you do that?

I pulled up the web site, panned over the ocean to the left (as Columbus discovered, it's a long ways) and landed in the US. Zoomed in on a couple of locations to see the details and it all worked. I didn't try anything beyond that though. I was impressed with how fast the app seemed to render the maps, far faster than Google or Mapquest.

[Buster52]

Laughing. You panned to the right (east) and that's where Asia is relative to the UK. Try panning left (west) and you'll find the New World.

Bob, I said I panned both ways and it didn't show the US. I typed in my address on the where to start and then it showed me the US. Once you put in the start and finished point it doesn't allow you to add a new point in the trip. How do you do that?

[Chuck_thehammer]

type in local city "coma" state, USA.


Cleveland, Ohio, USA



I can NOT get it to log onto host site to get file to send to my Garmin.

[bob_nestor]

Buster52 wrote:
I did pan over in both directions and it didn't show the US. Instead it showed my Asia. I did find the US when I put in a address from the US.

Laughing. You panned to the right (east) and that's where Asia is relative to the UK. Try panning left (west) and you'll find the New World.

[Buster52]

I did pan over in both directions and it didn't show the US. Instead it showed my Asia. I did find the US when I put in a address from the US.

[nickthehunter]

Zoom out, pan over to the US, and zoom back in.

[PenMan]

Buster52 wrote:
http://gpx.cgtk.co.uk

I did get it to show the US. It is not a easy as MS Streets and Trips or Delorme Street Atlas.

How did you get it to show the USA?

[fj12ryder]

When you connect the GPS to Garmin to update and download the maps, you'll be asked if you want to download to your computer too. Do that and direct Basecamp to where the map was installed. It will now use that map. Using the GPS map makes Basecamp run slowly since it has to access the GPS map.

[Buster52]

http://gpx.cgtk.co.uk

I did get it to show the US. It is not a easy as MS Streets and Trips or Delorme Street Atlas.

[bighatnohorse]

fj12ryder wrote:
You don't have to have the GPS plugged into your PC for Basecamp to work. But you do have to have an up-to-date map loaded on the computer for Basecamp to work.

What kind of map do you load on the computer?
My understanding of Basecamp is that the Garmin GPS stores the map database on it.
That's why it has to be connected to the laptop to do any planning.

I used Streets & Trips to do the planning - it's far better than Basecamp. I create waypoints on S&T and number them - then export them to a GPX file which can be imported into Basecamp.
S&T cannot export the Route Planner 😞 to gpx - so the work around it to use waypoints which can be exported to gpx file.

[Chuck_thehammer]

fcooper wrote:

MikeInOregon wrote:
I also hate Basecamp. I use this web site http://gpx.cgtk.co.uk/ to create a route in the Google Maps interface.

What a neat route planning tool. Thanks for posting. I'll be using this one for my next trip.

Fred

Agreed, I will try it out for my trip, the end of this month...700 miles