Tim, I guess one of the reasons you"ve created your excellent video content and series is because Garmin hasn't. You provide so much more understanding and clarity than Garmin has in their resource materials.

Thank you so much!👍

Thanks again!

Excellent. Thank you.

Very good. Thank you

excellent job mate !

TIm, I have followed your first four videos and they are super. I have learned so much! You have gotten me over the hump of fear of using BaseCamp. Thank you so much. Reg

I was so frustrated trying to use the Garmin videos. Good job on making using Basecamp a lot easier then the Garmin folks.

Thanks again Tim, very useful.

What a great tutorial. Thanks so much for spending the time and effort for explaining this "six-left-thumbs" of a computer program for Garmin. They should be compensating you well.

Can't tell you how many times I've come back to your Basecamp videos for help. I'm just not in Basecamp enough to remember all it's nuanced route making features. But when I need to make a route, the instructions and tips in your videos are invaluable. THANK YOU for making these!

Another really helpful video.

I've fumbled my way through using BaseCamp to navigate to every courthouse in 22 states plus many other trips. I stumbled across these videos by reading reviews for a new Zumo XT to replace my venerable Zumo 550s. Wow, this series of videos has been immensely helpful. Thank you.

Best Base Camp tutorials I have come across, thank you Tim

Excellent information, especially the Hover over route to see distance from Start!! And more great tips and Thanks

Tim, thank you so much for clarifying so many of the mysteries of BaseCamp with this video. This is the first of your videos that I've seen. I've wrestled with BaseCamp a few times in the past, but felt that it was much too un-user-friendly to waste so much time on trying to figure it out on my own. Even trying to read Garmin's attempt at documenting their program made it even more frustrating. I very much appreciate your taking the time to explain the proper use of shaping points. Garmin's own BaseCamp manual only mentions shaping points once and it falls abysmally short of explaining what they are and how to use them. In your video, after you tweaked a route the way you wanted it (Alt + click and move), you mentioned adding more shaping points. I watched you do it, but at first didn't realize that you moved your mouse ever so slightly to make the "rubber band" visible, which is necessary for creating additional shaping points. On my first attempt, I did as you said, but not as you did. I held down the Alt key, then clicked my mouse and nothing happened. No shaping point was created. Then I went back and watched your nearly imperceptible movement of the mouse to accomplish that task. You may want to embellish that fact in another of your training videos for clarity. Something else very frustrating about Garmin's software is that it renames streets with its own naming scheme. A street with a second name of Crossing is known as Xing to Garmin. It's as if they intentionally make their products almost impossible to use until you learn their specific nuances. In this short (for BaseCamp) video of yours, you've filled in many missing gaps in my understanding of how to use this previously frustrating tool and I successfully created my first route for my GPS unit that will go the way I want it to without it having a mind of its own! It was especially helpful to learn how to get rid of those doggonned Interstate U-turns! Thank you very much!

Thank you for making the Garmin Basecamp video series.

I am feeling more and more comfortable with Basecamp.

I'm really grateful that you did those videos. They have been a tremendous help, even though I have used Basecamp for years, I never had the patience to really deeply immerse myself in it. Also I used it on my Apple computer and it seems to me Garmin did the Apple version with the left hand just to be able to say they have an Apple version out there. Well, it sucks so much compared to the pc version. So much so that I bought a pc for this purpose allone. Also because I don't want to bring the pricey Mac book pro on long motorcycle journeys. It's all coming together for me now. Thanks a lot. Some feedback: the sound quality of your videos needs some attention.

Great video. I fumble my way through basecamp once yearly for an annual trip. Your video will make this process quicker. The way points or shaping points on the wrong side of the road (or in my case usually in a paddock next to the road) is a trap for the inexperienced. Your explanation of how to centre and check each of the points will make life way easier for me. I'm not sure if you have covered the thrill of trying to share routes with friends for use on their garmin units that have different map versions or routing preferences set differently. That's another trap for newbies. Thanks again.

this series is superb, I still don't understand why basecamp is so complicated and not user friendly, but these videos at least improved my knowledge of base camp substantially

This series of basecamp is invaluable, as a newbie to basecamp Iam so enjoying your videos, albeit Iam a slow learner, that said the ability to return to your videos for a refresher is a great help, thanks Anthony

Thank you very much for taking the time to make this series of excellent videos

Excellent video! I have used Basecamp for years, and still learned more useful tips here!

thanks for these videos. If you're historically a google maps user, switching to Garmin can be overwhelming. But now that I'm getting used to Garmin and Basecamp, I'm beginning to prefer it. Much more control over my routes and I love that I don't have to rely on cellular signals when out riding!

Tim, thank you very much, a great tutorial. i had almost given up on BaseCamp until I came across your videos. thanks for taking the time to create them. I am now easily creating my own routes with ease. Many thanks. Mike. UK

Thanks again! I use basecamp for bicycling as well as my car and motorcycle. Be sure to always designate the profile in the properties. It will calculate routes differently depending on your selection.

Thank you for your videos. I have created routes using the insert route button and have found that sometimes the inserted waypoints are just a bit off from the road that I have chosen. As a final stage I zoom in really close on each waypoint to make sure that it is on exactly the intended road or intersection, and not inadvertently placed on in unintended sideroad or up a dead end. This is not a huge deal when I'm riding by myself, but I don't like that to happen when I'm leading a group, say, from Coeur d'Alene, ID to Yaak, MT. The pressure is definitely on then! Much better to take extra time when building the route on my PC!

Super helpful. Thanks for posting. Can’t understand why Garmin does not creat this kind of content??????

I finally gave in after giving up on this a few months ago, and decided to dedicate a Sunday afternoon to learning this horrible software. Thank you for simplifying as much as possible. I can finally modify my own routes and choose the best roads.

I am sorry but I forgot which video it was you discussed Joining Tracks and you mentioned the Erase separate tracks Yes or No panel. I too saw that the separate tracks were not erased. I realized that is because I working directly from the memory on my Device. When I moved the files to Basecamp's file area on my hard drive and worked (JOINED) them there, they erased the single tracks just fine.

Tim, I found this video, goes along with my prior question.....too bad that shaping points still have to be added to a route to force designed routing. It would have been amazing that a created route would "stick" as drawn. I have practiced locally and my DriveSmart 76 seems to "stick" without adding the additional shaping points.

Good video but I wish you would show how to split or add an address location. For instance, you have decided to stop at a hotel for the night and will need to split the rout at the hotel or friend's address.

Awesome videos Tim thank you!....can someone tell me why i don't always get the black line when trying to divide/split a route?

Hey Tim, I enjoy your tutorials, in fact, I refer to them consistently. I do have a question. If you have a route going to points A,B,C and want to delete point C and make a new point to D, how would you do it?

I'd like to see this video for Mac. I don't have an Alt key on my Mac

Hitting the ESC key will immediately remove the rubber band.

About exporting the .gpx file to the bike - I finished your basecamp videos and didn't see anywhere a mention of how to "import" the .gpx file on the gps itself. One of my sources of confusion as I try to understand how this works is what do I have to do once I have finished the 'send to device' FROM basecamp and then I turn on the Garmin gps. How to import? And what? Route? Track? Log? Thanks.

How do I re open my new route dialog box? I think I shut it down by checking the box. Great videos I am learning so much!

Hi if you should ever decide to print a book or a paper manual for base camp I'd like to be the first person to purchase one.

Alt Key or using the insert point button is the same, right?

Great video’s but BaseCamp is still a challenge ! Trying to build a simple test route using a start and end waypoint. I then try to modify the generated route by dragging the route in a westerly fashion to a specific road vs the easterly direction BC wants to go in. It calculates my intended modification, but then wants to return to its original route by doing an “out and back “ . How do I get it to reroute using this new direction ? I have also found that modifying routes leaves unintended out and backs and circular patterns ( which sometimes you can’t even see unless the zoom is really high) which turn into caos when trying to ride the rout on the bike. Thanks for your reply. I would buy your new book as well I

What size SD card are you using?

Hi Tim, Can you help me with a screen scrolling question? When I first start creating a route I can scroll around the screen easily with the arrow keys on the keyboard. I can also zoom in and out with the plus and minus keys. However, once I click off the map to another command, etc, those functions are gone. Now I have to scroll and zoom using the compass wheel on the map which involves many single individual clicks and is much slower. Is there a way to return to the first method of scrolling and zooming? Thanks! Mike

i make new way point add them do Garmin but how do i view them on the Garmin there not showing up...thx for any information !

'Halo Tim. When I try to connect 2 points, I get a straight line and not the road connecting them. What am I doing wrong?

Tim, does it make any difference, if so how, between loading a route to the Internal Storage vs. the SD card?

Hey Tim, I'm not exactly sure on what I have done. But, when changing the map, I used to take the hand tool, and holding ALT I could move the route. I clicked on something, and I can't remember what I click. But now, every time I click on the map, without holding the ALT button, the route changes. How do I get it back to the default setting. IE, holding down the ALT key to move the route. Thanks in advance.

I have a bunch of old routes I created in Garmin MapSource. Can I load them into Basecamp? How?

Basecamp is a very good software, if the year is 2004. Otherwise, it beats me why anyone would deal with this crap.

This software is fatally flawed. I have worked on learning it for over a YEAR. Every time I spend an hour creating a route, I get almost to the end and Basecamp "adds something" to my route that I can't remove. Countless times I have deleted and started over. Often it has me exiting and taking a five mile detour when there isn't even a waypoint telling it to do so. There are entire off ramps that it knows nothing about, and I have to refer back and forth to google maps to locate the offramp and then try to find it on basecamp. After going through all that minutia to have to destroy the whole thing and start over is more than discouraging. I've just about decided to put one waypoint in my GPS and let my unit pick the route, taking me God knows where. I've watched the videos, and his basecamp has different buttons than mine, although I have the latest version. If I had to describe Basecamp with one word it would be "unknowable."

Whoever designed Basecamp should be shot. Most every other mapping program I've tried is intuitive, especially Map source and Google maps. Can't believe they stick with this wonky system. Terrible!