Thanks Tim. I really appreciate your Garmin videos. I doubt anyone would call Basecamp intuitive but your easy to follow tutorials make it all so understandable 👍

I was screaming at my Garmin/Basecamp trying to set a route for an up coming road trip. This video nailed it. It wont get back my life I wasted trying without it though!

Now to give it a try. The fourth way seems to be the best way for creating a detailed route. I'm tired of the piece of paper tucked under the front of my seat method. I have to figure this out!!! Thanks Tim.

Wow!! Was this ever helpful. I ride long distance and participate in a bunch of rallies as well as challenges with stops all over the US. The fourth method worked best for me. Now I'm on to your "modifying routes" video. Thanks a bunch. Semper Fi!!

Very Organized, Very Thorough, and Very helpful . Thank You for taking the time.

Studied the video step by step, make notes, not simple, however, I created my first trip and got it transferred to my ZUMO so I can make it work. Thank you Tim.

Thank You Much for the video. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure this out and you walked me through it with ease Thank You

EZ Moto Tim, I have to say this is such a helpful series! I've been a nitwit for the past few years because I essentially had all of the tools around me, but never took the time to search for training videos on BaseCamp. Despite being quite technical, I was just plain stymied by the BC interface since it behaves so different from every other GPS/routing platform I've touched. I was determined to get better at creating adventure routes for riding my 1200GS. This series is telling me everything I need to know in a very learnable sequence to use BC! Thank you so much.

Another manageable sized lesson--thanks!

Hey Tim, I enjoy your videos on Garmin BaseCamp, you breakdown the steps into easy to understand modules. There are many tutorials on KZfaq regarding BaseCamp however, yours is the easiest to understand. It would be helpful to number the BaseCamp series from lesson 1 to the last episode in the series (1,2,3,4, etc.). I watched the first few videos and then don't know which video I should view next in your series. Plus your BaseCamp videos are mixed together with your other videos. Thanks

Excellent - concise and easy to understand.

Thank you, Tim! Your guide is the best I have found on Internet! I'm looking forward to watching all your videos!!!!!!

thank you again. I watched your second video three times. Once all the way through. Again on my laptop beside my desktop pausing the video and trying your suggestions. A third time because I already forgot how to delete unwanted details from the map. I have a feeling I'll watch this one at least three times as well! Take care

Great video thank you. Will give it ago.

So happy I found you! Awesome help.

Just learning about this so this was really helpful

Very useful again, thankyou

Learning SO much here! Tomorroe Part 4.

WOW... this is very helpful!!!

Thanks for the help, Its probably the best advice on Basecamp on KZfaq!

Thanks very much. Nice and clear and structured.

Excellent video once again.

Thanks Tim for all of your lessons. I created my first route with 70 miles of twisty roads and tested it out today and everything worked like a charm... I'm now confident in my ability to create routes to any place that I would like to go! THANKS AGAIN! (Now I need to figure out how to get you that cup of coffee :-)

Super clear and helpful instructions Tim!! Thank you!!

Excellent videos. Thanks.

Great help for a newbie, thank you!

what a great teacher thank you

EZ Moto Tim, this series has been incredibly helpful as I've been amazed (and frequently frustrated) with how unintuitive the Basecamp software is. This video on creating routes was very helpful but I'm now trying to understand why I can't load all of the routes to my Garmin device. I've started putting them in Trips but not sure if that the correct was to do it. A video on how the difference between Routes and Trips would be great.

Super helpful playlist. Thank you very much

Great tutorial! 🙂

Thank you

Awesome video to introduce the basics to creating routes. Thank you very much for putting all of these together to teach Basecamp to those of us with Garmins!

You are a lifesaver!

OMG Thank you! I still find this program extremely user unfriendly but you have at least made it easier.

very useful and super educational. Thanks from France!

Great video thanks

Thank you so much!👍

I just bought Montana 700i last week and it took me almost three days to find your useful videos. So disappointed that You tube did not put your videos at the top. I have finished Basecamp creating routes -part 3. I will continue to watch all of your videos in the next few weeks. You are definitely a great teacher and showing us slowly and step as step. Very thankful teacher, I will buy you coffee after finishing all the videos. Question: I mostly do canoe trips, which activities should I pick? Can you explain your understanding regarding the different activities between off road and direct on basemap . Thank you.

Great video

great!👍

This is super helpful, thank you so much for it man, awesome work 🙂

Gracias! aprendí mucho

Nice and easy, like the other videos. Great set of videos.

Thank you. I am enjoying your videos. Makes it much easier to use Basecamp

Great video thanks very much 👍😃

Thanks, Tim. I created my routes, and I copied them to my Garmin Nuvi 265W. Excellent tutorial! Now I can't find them on my device. Do you have a tutorial for this?

Tim, thank you so much for the work you have put into this series. It has been incredibly helpful, and you put out a great instructional product. Not sure if you are willing to answer a question, but I am trying to figure out how to deal with route planning when BaseCamp thinks there is no road where I know there is a road, and it forces a difficult route out and around where I am trying to go. Thanks again! Al from Seattle

Hi Tim congratulations, your videos are awsome! Thanks a lot! I don´t know what Im doing wrong, because when I select "driving" as an "activity" the route doesn´t follow the roads...even with the tarcksource map selected...when I change the profile to "motorcycle", the route follow the roads!

Beginning at 7:27, EZ Moto Tim cautions his students not to left click with the mouse to move the map once the draw route pencil tool is activated, because doing so will create via points instead of moving the map. Instead, he instructs his listeners to use the arrow keys to move the map and the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out. While this is certainly true, I find an easier way to navigate the map while the create route pencil tool is activated is to use the map overview window. If the map overview window is activated prior to activating the route create tool, simply moving the mouse into the map overview window will change the cursor into the hand icon automatically and will allow the active map to be repositioned on the screen. Sliding the mouse back over the active map window will change the cursor back into the route create pencil icon without interruption. The overview map window can be sized and positioned anywhere that is most convenient. As far as I can tell, this is the only useful function of the overview map, but I do not see a reference to its use in this manner in the Garmin documentation or any other guides to using Basecamp software.

On the Mac version, when in waypoint mode you can press the space bar to put you in hand mode to move the map and then release the space bar to go back to waypoint mode.

One one of your Base Camp instructional video you showed us how to create different data bases to better organize. Do you know how to transfer data that I have saved from my default data base to a new data base I have created. My default one is so cluttered so I want to do this to better organize.

I would argue there is a 5th way to create a route and that is using the Trip Planner. Put waypoints into each day of the trip and a route will be created.

Great tutorial. I do lotsa offroad and tar routes mixed up on my adventure bike. Is it best to compile the route and then convert to track afterwards? Also, after creating a route, the majenta line doesn't always match up with the actual route/road/track on the map. Will this be a problem once downloaded on GPS and starting on the route or track?

Hi Tim I'm having trouble with understanding how to transfer and save routes to my garmin.

When you are done drawing a route with the pencil, how do you turn it off when you have selected the last point? The line continues to be connected to the pencil tip.

Hi Tim, which one of your videos covers transferring routes from Basecamp to your Garmin GPS, I have the Zumo 396 - Thanks

Not sure what I am doing wrong. I created a simple route with 4 waypoints in Google my maps. I was able to import it into Basecamp seamlessly. When I ‘send it to device’, nothing is available in the GPS. Very frustrating. I ended up manually creating it in the Garmin 595LM but it was cumbersome to do so. I will try again. It must be something I am doing wrong but this was a good tutorial. Thank you

I must be missing something ! My routes DONOT snap to roads ... All i get is a strait line . I am not using the " world view " . It is an OSM map pre loaded . Any hints ? thanks ..

Hi Tim thank you very much for your tutorial. I bought the same GPS and do not know how to use it. The way points will be good for me, I am a photographer and want to save locations and the routes to come back to. If I plan a motorcycle trip and want to enter a rest stop every 2 hours , how would I do that?

I've made many routes starting from my home. I can't seem to find how to use my home waypoint on each route without making a new waypoint. How can I reuse this starting point without making a new one each time?

Hello my friend, when I open my Basecamp in my computer, and when I try to do a road trip I don't have the window (From-To) why?? For example, when you click to beginning to do a road trip there is a window where you enter from that city until to that city, I don't have that. I hope that you understand what I mean. Thanks

Tim is Basecamp compatable with all Garmin navagation devices including the new Garmin Overland?

Great videos! Improved from before quite a bit. Thanks! One thing that has always annoyed me - you can't set up "mini" routes and connect them together in a trip plan. Example - I have a route set up for Willow City Loop that goes the way I like to ride it and stops where I know there's a photogenic site. It would be nice if say I had a route to go to Luckenbach to link it up to the Willow City Loop for a new route that joins the two. If you've found a way to do it I'm all ears!

When I planned my route to the destination and saved it to my Zumo XT, I wanted to come home the same way but when I inverted it in base camps and saved it, it changed the original route also and so I could not use it. I had to go in and make the same route home and save it under a new name?? Inverting a route would be great but when you save it , it then changes the original route the same way. what am I doing wrong? Thanks for posting

I just purchased a Garmin 66i and am learning to use it. Do you have a suggestion for a map that can be used in BaseCamp that will show offroad/dirt trails for creating adventure bike routes? TIA

Hello Tim, Watched a bunch of your videos on Garmin BaseCamp and already have an issue. Once I finish entering two addresses and click on GO for BaseCamp to calculate route it actually stops midway and never completes the calculation.. Have you seen this before? I actually captured a screen shot of what's happenning but not sure how to forward to you... Thanks much!

What is the function of the Optimize button

Hey Tim, a quick question, I have a folder with a 2 list folders in it, I create a simple A to B route in list folder 1, I then want to copy the route to list folder 2 and modify it by adding additional waypoints, however it seems to also modify the original route, is this normal or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in anticipation

I have a Garmin Tread. I can create the routes in BaseCamp and they are as I want them no problem. But then I copy them to the Garmin and then select the route, it "calculates" the route and every time it modifies what I create in BaseCamp. No matter what settings I seem to try, it gets modified. Do you know of a way to make the Garmin respect the route that I created exactly as I did in BaseCamp? Thanks.

For Ireland and Northern Ireland which is UK and a National Border, the roads marked are limited. This makes the methods or routing in Part 3 not really workable. With only shortest and direct routes offered Basecamp is showing limitations for flexible route planning. USA might well be more detailed. Maybe in later parts routing by waypoint selection might be easier and more effective.

I copied everything you did. when you click New Braunfels at 3:10 it goes down into your list on bottom left. It doesn't do that for me

Just started to build a route and I found my maps are locked..... google has me looking for a code?

This has to be one of the worst programs ever developed!

Even though I’m on city navigator North America nt 2024, it still doesn’t show roads.

this video is mostly useless, as you're not showing anything that you can't already just by entering a route directly into the GPS.