Some good BaseCamp tutorial videos

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Some of the software on your computer and / or on your GPS device might have changed a bit but overall it's not too bad a guide. Use your imagination, is all I can suggest. Similarly, it's a little bit different on a Mac but a bit of intustive guesswork should see you right.

Video 1 Setting up BaseCamp and your GPS device

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Video 2 Basic route creation

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Video 3 Shaping points and waypoints

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Video 4 Transfering a route from the PC to a GPS device

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Video 5 Skipping points

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Video 6 Off route problems explained

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The bod's settings are very similar to mine and his use of prompted recalculation YES or NO is the same as mine.

I am fully aware that others do it differently, preferring auto-recalculation to be turned ON or to reply YES when prompted as to whether to recalculate or not. The purpose of this thread is not to say that one method is better than another, it's simply to walk people through some of the basics. Nor is its purpose to claim that BaseCamp is better (or worse) than Mapsouce; each has their own qualities, faults and foibles. That being said, with BaseCamp now all but Garmin's default route plotting software, any new users of Garmin devices will very probably have never encountered Mapsource and maybe never will.

The best way to learn? Use the software, use your GPS device. Each generation brings something new. I think I am pretty good at using BaseCamp / Mapsource, having used both to create 100's if not 1000's of routes over the years. Similarly, I'd like to think that I am competent with Garmin GPS devices of several vintages. I am still learning. Most definitely I am still learning how my Nav VI operates slightly (or completely) differently from my Nav V and earlier devices. Most notably, the realisation as to how the brand new 'Skip points automatically' option works and how it appears to override other commands, like 'Do not recalculate'. I only discovered its foible when riding a route I'd created. It baffled Garmin, too. The possible answer came from within these pages. I know how to get myself out of most GPS scrapes and try to avoid blaming Garmin for everything wrong with the world. But that patience has only come from experience of getting things wrong and then finding out why. The mistakes (my mistakes) are getting less and less. Most often it's my human error, just as it was with the automatic skip function but that I can live with.

Have fun with your software. Have fun with your GPS. If you really do or must think it's a pile of crap, go back 30 or more years to a Palm Pilot or whatever they were called; you'll soon realise what crap is really like..... and we thought they were the dog's bollocks!
 
I started a thread at the beginning of the year saying I would crack Basecamp and to be honest I have. Not to the point of being an expert but I have managed to plan numerous routes both in U.K., France and Spain. You learn as you go along but the one thing that I force myself to do is to NOT let the Nav V recalculate ever. If I miss a turn I now stop as soon as possible, hit NO when asked if I want to recalculate and back track to where I went wrong. Previously I used to hit recalculate and the NAV V would drag me of route for miles and pick shitty A roads, dual carriageways etc.

The You Tube links that have been posted are the ones I used to finally crack it so my advice is watch from the beginning and make sure you set it up properly or you are going to encounter loads of probs and probably give up out of frustration.
 
I remember your posts Wonkey. Well done for sticking with it and for now enjoying the fruits of your efforts.

Richard
 
Thanks, I might have a watch of these as being a fuckwit I've tried Basecamp and struggled with even the basics so use MyRoute instead ATM which is more suited to simpletons like me.:beerjug:
 
Excellent videos great that someone has taken much time to try and explain how this works.
The methods used in the videos are very similar to the way i build routes, I tend to use waypoints on long distance routes.

So the example given in the video regarding a waypoint seems fairly strange I would never drop a waypoint in the middle of a field (perhaps i could mistakenly drop it just off a road but would correct it as i check the route) I just don't get the never use waypoints perspective :nenau

Really worth spending some time to view these videos if you are keen to build your own routes.
 
His dropping it in a field was only to demonstrate or emphasise a point in his verbal explanation.

Don't read too much into it.
 
Very useful. I had not really understood the difference between the two versions of a route that appear after importing before. Do people here tend to use the route with all of the shaping points visible or the route without?
 
...I had not really understood the difference between the two versions of a route that appear after importing before. Do people here tend to use the route with all of the shaping points visible or the route without?

That, as the video explains, is very much down to personal preference. Whilst there are a very few golden rules to follow (like making sure the detailed maps are all present and activated) that are common to ALL users, a GPS device is still a Personal Computer (with a capital 'P') of a sort. How each bod ends up operating theirs is always up to them.

It's when Personal (capital 'P' again) preferences find themselves at odds with Garmin's that problems start to creep in, the most common of late being some bods' endless desire to plot routes outside of Mapsource and BaseCamp and then blame Garmin when things go awry. But hey, it's always somebody else's fault in this blame culture world.
 
so having looked at the map situation as the first video basecamp was showing 2011 maps and my nav 6 2018,what may not be obvious in the first video is that when transfering map info over you need to shut down basecamp and then restart it before it will show in the drop down menu,prob obvious to some but it wasnt to me!,anyway one down few to go.
 
Thanks for this post - really good videos which cleared up a lot of questions (ie the difference between shaping points and waypoints and how to sync computer and device). I use Basecamp for Mac which has a different interface and tools but will get my head around that.
 
Thanks Richard, I understood within a couple of minutes in the first video as to why my attempts at route planning with Basecamp were failing miserably. Some of the base settings with avoidances were plainly opposite to what I was trying to achieve and I also hadn't appreciated the need to zoom in with enough detail - I was sometimes picking up adjacent roads without realising.

Really helpful.
 
The preference settings and the zooming in to check things, the two key building blocks.
 
I have found these very helpful instructional video's on YouTube, so I thought I would share - definitely worth a look


Navigate a Google Maps route on a Garmin Device for Mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OmxXHeFuRE&list=PL8mLbWUpJO7PE4Qc1oGb7RfATIE4Q6Iar&index=6&t=43s

Garmin BaseCamp Route Structure for Mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDYg580zr4&t=15s

Garmin Basecamp User Interface for Mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLm7nFg7-I&list=PL8mLbWUpJO7PE4Qc1oGb7RfATIE4Q6Iar&index=5&t=885s
 
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