Garmin Basecamp Software

[The Grey One]

Use Bing Maps in conjunction with Basecamp and all becomes real easy.....

in Bing maps type in your target destination (either name / place / post code / town etc etc
>press enter and it creates a location flag on the map
>right click on the location flag
>choose option "Copy" from the coordinates section
>Go to Basecamp and click "Find" from the top menu bar
>click "locate Coordinates" (the bottom option)
>Highlight the coordinates in the box so it all goes blue and then right click and "Paste" your coordinates over from your clipboard
>Click "Recentre" - you can Skip this stage if you want and go straight to next stage
>Click Create Waypoint

> now right click the waypoint coordinates and rename it whatever you want and you can change the symbol - Press enter

NOW THE WAYPOINT IS SAVED IN BASECAMP AS WHATEVER YOU HAVE NAMED IT AS WITH WHATEVER ICON YOU CHOOSE AND CAN NOW BE USED TO CREATE A ROUTE FROM THE ROUTING TOOL.

SIMPLE.

Rik

No need to shout! And Bing maps? to quote a well know tennis player- You can't be serious! When I lived in Austria Bing had our entire village in the wrong place! Well more correctly the village name and marked centre was some distance from the village

You have to remember that you don't transfer a route as such but a series of points on a map that the device joins up to create the route. If you use a map where a certain road or feature is incorrectly placed then it is likely to be placed off of the intended route. If that error is small no harm is done, if like our village in Austria it is 7kms and 800 metres in altitude off then you have problems. Of course you can adjust this in Basecamp but using Garmin software and maps avoids this extra work.

You can, of course, plot a route in Mapsource and then import it into Basecamp if you must, that's quite simple too.

John

 

[Wapping]

Something tells me we are about to hear about OSM maps again

 

[The Grey One]

Something tells me we are about to hear about OSM maps again

You just did it for me!

John

 

[leedude03]

Use Bing Maps in conjunction with Basecamp and all becomes real easy.....

in Bing maps type in your target destination (either name / place / post code / town etc etc
>press enter and it creates a location flag on the map
>right click on the location flag
>choose option "Copy" from the coordinates section
>Go to Basecamp and click "Find" from the top menu bar
>click "locate Coordinates" (the bottom option)
>Highlight the coordinates in the box so it all goes blue and then right click and "Paste" your coordinates over from your clipboard
>Click "Recentre" - you can Skip this stage if you want and go straight to next stage
>Click Create Waypoint

> now right click the waypoint coordinates and rename it whatever you want and you can change the symbol - Press enter

NOW THE WAYPOINT IS SAVED IN BASECAMP AS WHATEVER YOU HAVE NAMED IT AS WITH WHATEVER ICON YOU CHOOSE AND CAN NOW BE USED TO CREATE A ROUTE FROM THE ROUTING TOOL.

SIMPLE.

Rik

All well and good, and you can even do this with google maps and many other mapping web sites, but with garmin mapsource or basecamp combined with either there own maps or maps from OSM you do not need an internet connection or even a phone, just a little netbook and you have it covered, you could even use certain tablets as long as they have a mass storage mode/connection.

 

[Riktus]

leedude03 - you are of course correct about internet connection - and I have used Mapsource in the past but the travelling tool for me is a Macbook air so I am limited to Basecamp. I find Basecamp great for everything but search facility is a bit limited but when you know the workarounds - never a problem - Bing maps has been great for me I have never been let down by a waypoint anywhere I have travelled (most of Western Europe - including Austria) but each to their own I dont make the Bing Maps so I cant be held personally responsible.


You are right though if you are doing routes ad hoc this system will only work with internet connection (or I hook up my mac to my phone) but I always plan my trips and routes before leaving home anyway.

I do however sometimes deviate a route on the day and either do this on the Sat Nav on the day or with a Map.

 

[leedude03]

Its a given for me also with reference to the search engine in either mapsource or basecamp as neither are as good as google. but as said if you have no internet or phone or map (perish the thought of the latter) they are a blessing and still enable you to find and plot places and routes. I do know that there are not many places nowerdays that you can not get the internet, but on those rare occasions a map or the garmin software does come in handy.