Garmin BaseCamp Route Plotting Seminar for Mac

I've said it before and i'll say it again. "Oi, Garmin. Pay this man as he's the only person that has managed to explain how to use your software. You didn't bother, this guy did and it's better than any effort you have made before".

What a brilliant tutorial. At last, the scales have fallen from my eyes concerning Basecamp, and I am able to use it!! Thank you for posting this, Joseph. I agree with the previous poster, Garmin need to pay you!

Having spend a huge amount of time trying to work this software out I came across Joseph. Pretty much all of my queries so far have been sorted and my Mac is very grateful as the likelyhood of it being thrown out of the bedroom window into the garden has now passed. Great thought out session for which I am very grateful. nice one, thanks.

Thank you for this. I use BC with an Oregon for hiking and mountain biking but this tutorial has cleared up so many frustrations - especially the alerting v non alerting via points - I have been so close to stamping on my device as it tries to navigate me back to a specific point that I had already passed. So useful. My life has improved from watching this!

Hi Joseph. Thanks for taking the time to present this tutorial. I agree with Rimmer D that you are doing a sterling job which i can relate to far easier than the Garmin videos. With your help I’m getting there, slowly but surely and with a degree of confidence I’m able to put a multi stage training route together and share with others. Yes it was good to see Basecamp and Garmin Express messing you around as well just to let us know it’s not only us newbies and our inexperience, if it happens to you then it’s certainly ok when it happens to me😂 I’m determined to get to grips with Basecamp so I can confidently and proficiently create routes but I realise it’s going to take a while and lots of practice and with your help through these videos I’m sure it will happen so I’m truly grateful for them. Many thanks

Great webinar! Thanks for all the tips Joseph! So useful!

Joseph you are a hero! As with many other subscribers, we really appreciate your input, but what a package!……. This takes me back years when trying to deal with Window 98 problems etc. We are in 2021. IMO, Basecamp is awful. I am following your sessions hoping that something wonderful might pop out of this jungle of filing confusions. But alas, I take 20 minutes a day with you and slowly am working it out, well some of it. I’m on day three, I am listening very very carefully and cloning you on my next screen. Thank you again. MH Amsterdam.

Hey Rimmer D you are soooo right I've seen a few Garmin instructional video's and they are very lacking these vid's by Mr Byrne are absolutely brilliant, clear and explains everything in detail and points out the little nicks and bumps in the system and shows you how to get out of them. I wondered a few years ago why when I was touring the Czech Republic Garmin would suddenly take me down somebody's very long front drive turn me around and continue on my way !!!!!! I found out by being instructed by these video's so now I know. Very nice to see some more new ones coming on stream. Thank you very much Joseph Sir you are doing the world a great service and by doing so you must be increasing the world sales of Garmin so I think the boys there ought to "see you right" as I think the saying goes 👏👏😃👍

Very good information. I would like to see a longer route with over night stays and refueling points in as well. Thank you

Very informative video thank you! It's been a while since I wanted to learn Basecamp in order to better understand route planning and control how the GPS calculates route. I hope my Zumo 396 (on order) will support non-alerting vias (My older nuvi 2455 LMT does not seem to support it).

Very helpful..Thank you..subscribed.

Very good content, thank you. I am currently struggling to get Basecamp to recognise my Zumo XT2 device - any advice would be most welcome.

Un grand merci pour votre tuto très instructif. Peut-être pourriez vous en faire un autre sur le fonctionnement du Zumo seul...en cours de voyage... mais quoiqu'il en soit, bravo !!! 😊

Great video, I have learned a lot from it, thanks. I am not sure that I see the benefit of a simulation, in particular if you are simulating a 3 hours route while watching TV. What is it that can go wrong on the actual route, and you would detect through the simulation?

Great!

At 52:20 when I was refining the route earlier and moving some of the via points, the ones I moved changed from non-alerting to alerting. I should have done a final check and changed them all to non-alerting before I sent the route to the device so that's where the confusion came from there. At 52:57 when I changed a via point on the device form Alerting to non-alerting it disappeared from the route. This is a software glitch. Via points are not supposed to disappear if you change them on the device. It doesn't happen every time but it did on that example and so the route changed shape completely. Also if you send a route to the device that was plotted on a map that was different to the map on the device it can recalculate and make a real mess with jagged lines going in all directions. If this happens you can fix it by editing the route on the device and changing the calculation preference. Change it from fastest time to shortest distance, this will make the device recalculate the route and it should correct, you can change the calculation preference back to fastest time and the route should stay correct. It's a glitch when importing routes that were plotted on a route other than the one that was on the device. Some additional clarity about simulating routes on the device. (I'll make a video about it soon). When simulating a route on the device if you select the start point as your next destination the device will navigate your vehicle from it's last known location (usually your house) to the start of the route and then navigate you around the route. If your route has no alerting via points and you choose the Destination as the next destination the vehicle will warp to the start point of the route and then navigate around the route. If your route has intermediate alerting via points then the route is broken down into sections. When you select an intermediate via point as the next destination the vehicle warps to the previous via point (the one before the one you've selected) and continues the route from there. So for example if you have a route with alerting via points and you want the device to simulate navigating around it, then choose the 2nd via point in the list (after the start point) and the vehicle will warp to the start point and continue from there. When your route has alerting via points, if you choose the end point as the next destination, the vehicle warps to the alerting point prior to the end point and navigates from there. As I say I'll show this in a video as it's not very intuitive (as I found out in this live stream) but once you know it's easy to work.

I’m gonna have to work my way through all these videos. Recent convert from TomTom and my first impressions are good but there is a lot to learn. Joseph has a great style and enjoying what I’m seeing. Have you done anything on Garmin Explore? I can see that being very useful - especially when away on a trip but it’s not very intuitive (pattern here I think)

Thanks!

Thanks for the best video's on the web for using BaseCamp. One problem I'm having is that I have North American maps on my European XT and it is not permitted to download them to my mac for use in BC. Using the maps in my XT connected to my mac is very slow and often hangs up. Do you have any tips to speed it up?

Hello Joseph, great Tutorial! Thanks a lot! Your font in the map seems like Arial or similar. I can in my map only see Times Roman, but I could not found how to change this. Could you help where the font could be changed?