Hi Greg, great video, very helpfull, thanks for sharing. What if you add some POI's points of interest to your route and you want them to display on your GPS' screen when you navigating? Once embedded to your route, how do you export them from Basecamp to you Garmin GPS. Many thanks Pedro

Thank you so much for your clear & informative video. It has taken the frustration out of directly planning a route on Base Camp. Take care & safe riding.

Hi Greg, Thnk you for sharing this. I was struggling for two days, trying to figure out how to build a custom route and then transfer that to my Zumo XT. I tried a few different ways based on youtube videos, but none of them were working. Finally, your method took care of it! I have bookmarked your video, and I intend to write down the steps for future reference. Thx t your son too. Cheers!

I was given a Garmin Zumo 396 For christmas this year. Its all mounted on my SG. Now, I am part of the group that will lead several rides this summer doing our week long stay in Maggie Valley NC. I have watched this video twice and will watch it several more time as I feel I am missing something. I have a google acct and have downloaded google maps and my google maps, and can design my routes but can not see where I can save them and transfer them to my Garman. I will be one of the leads on these rides and last year used my phone, bad idea! This year I want to not only be able to stay on the route I chose but be able to share them with my riders, (est 20-30 total) And basecamp seems impossible to get for some reason unless I am missing something. I am not a tech guru thats for sure. Help?

Dear Sir, first of all thank you for sharing. I have tried to do as you describe in your video but without any success. It works fine until the part where I am importing the .kmz file to BaseCamp, nothing happens no file is imported to BaseCamp! Have you heard about this before? Any suggestion to what I may be doing wrong? Best Regards Göran Lundell, Svedala, Skåne, Sweden

Great Video! Thank you!

Awesome video. I've got a new zumo 396 and have been trying for a week to plan a route using basecamp, google maps, etc. -but just haven't been able to put it all together. Thanks to this video I've got it now. Thanks Greg!!

Thanks Greg. I watch this video at least two times a year, every time I plan a trip, I use this for my refresher course.

That is exactly what I need. Thanks. I have an old Zumo 590 - and I've never figured out Basecamp enough to work with it.

I realize that this is an older video. However, you showed all of the steps and I now see how to make this work with my Zumo 396 GPS. Thank You

This video is so well done. Straight forward and to the point. Can't thank you enough.

different layers created on google maps are downloaded as different tracks on basemap creating different routes. Is there any combining solution these different layers to have one route?

Thank you for the very clear info, however I could not upload my created route on my Garmin Zumo 590lm since I got a message memory was full. Is there any way of cleaning the internal memory and opening space for my new route?

can you do the same thing for a hiking route where theres no trail in the map ?,, thanks watching from costa Rica

When. I create route I get a magenta line direct from start point to end point And does not follow track? What am I doing wrong

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

I'm hoping you still monitor comments on this video so that you get my huge thanks for taking the time and trouble to create this guide. I wasn't aware that google maps could be used in this way. This is a game-changer for me as I am just about to get back into taking longer trips on my motorcycle. I was so not relishing the prospect of creating routes on basecamp again. The Garmin application is so unwieldy and time consuming. And as you point out at the beginning of the video, there are all sorts of other useful advantages to trip planning with Google Maps. Superb solution! Thank you Sir.

Well done 👍👍 and very helpful. I looked quite a lot of video's how to create and to stay on a route. This is the first one that made it clear in a simple and understandable way including the pitfalls. Thanks very much 🙏.

Since your video was produced, 2018, google maps layout seems to have changed some. Those three red dots do seem to be there now. Do you know how I would locate an export command now? Eric, Black Swan Odysseys

Thanks Greg, very helpful, you saved my life, am building maps to ride the Lincoln Highway this spring.

Thank you very interesting ✌

I do everithing like you explain and it creates a direct line from the start to the destination. Can´t understand why. Is there anything I´m missing?

not one damn thing you shown on this video worked

I've watched many a video on how to achieve this, most of which bamboozled me but this one worked 1st time and is so easy to follow. It also included the best tip on what to do about recalculating the route - which explains why a recent trip back from Switzerland didn't go entirely according to plan - I thought it rerouted onto the originally planned route and not just the quickest/shortest. Brilliant work Greg, no idea how I missed this last year - will subscribe and like and if I'm ever in your neck of the woods in the States I'll buy you a pint

GREAT video!! Thanks!!

Thank you so much for this information!! Extremely user friendly!

Thanks for the video! There are GPS guys (you are obviously one, I am also one) and there are definitely non-GPS guys. Somehow the GPS guy always gets the lead when a few guys are navigating a reasonably complex and scenic route, say, from Coeur d'Alene, ID to Yaak, MT. Then, the pressure is definitely on for the GPS guy in the lead! You really want to have that route perfectly nailed down in the planning stage, NOT when you've got four or five pals following you out in the boonies! I recommend adding a couple extra steps after you get that route into BaseCamp. Copy the route, then reduce the number of waypoints by the "motorcycle > direct > motorcycle boogie" recommended by Roger Gustavasson below. Finally, "pre-run" your route by looking at each waypoint and moving it as required to make the intended route run more smoothly (moving a waypoint past an intersection rather than at an intersection for example). This is a hassle, but worth it later on when your pals are following you on those small back roads. DAMHIK.

A very well explained tutorial!

Greg: excellent - I went on a ride in the mountains a week ago with my Zumo XT. I rode about 40 miles on dirt, gravel, and paved roads. After the ride, decided I would like to take all of the unsaved tracks, somehow attach them all together and bring them back into Google Maps to share with a friend. I'm afraid to loose the data in the GPS, have no idea how to do this. I could try saving the individual tracks which I think is a starting point, but don't know where to go next. I have basecamp installed on my computer.

Hi. I,m trying to do this and when I create the route, ir creates a straight path from the start point till the destination. Thanks for your help.

Such a great tutorial. Thanks for putting the time and effort creating this. Much appreciated sir.

Nice video well explain. That’s exactly what I was doing since now! I was using the Garmin navigator lV since 10 years and replace it for the new Garmin XT last week. You can use it the exact same way that you do but everything will be much faster because of the CPU. But one of the very nice new option is that you can use your phone with Google and sent your map to your Garmin XT using Garmin Drive app. So now in real time on the road I can use my phone with Google to create my map and send it to the GPS and it is very fast! Some will say why you don’t use your phone all the time? Well try it and you will understand!!!

A very well explained tutorial. I've been toiling with route planning using Basecamp every time I go to Europe on the bike . At best it's a very time consuming process that occasionally works as planned, but most times it just doesn't. I'm not particularly interested or competent in the use of computers but your clear steps and explanations have enabled me to use Google Maps like I've always wanted to. My wife and me are leaving for North Western Spain in the coming days and thanks to your video I appear to have managed to create what should be a stunning route from Ojedo to Tudela. Thank you for your help!!😀

By the way, the lack of traffic you see is no illusion. Mid June 2022 had almost a shocking lack of traffic (at least on weekdays when were there) even on the big ticket roads like TOTD and BOTD and the skyway.

Is Basecamp still relevant for Zumo XT..?.I've got Garmin Explore, and Garmin Drive. Confusing to me. Why all the apps??

Shame basecamp isnt free.

Why are you taking the time to tell me how a GPS is important to a motorcyclist?? I obviously have a Garmin and a motorcycle. I get it. What I'm trying to do is use Google maps to create a route on my Garmin Zumo. You know, the title of your video.

Very useful video, Basecamp feels outdated and clunky when trying to plot routes. I tried to do the Google maps thing recently and couldn't figure out how to use the "footsteps" route. 👍

Awesome video. I will share w the HOG Ride Captains. I want to plan routes on my RG w Zumo 396.

hello Greg, thanks for the very detailed layout how to upload from Google to my Garmin Zumo XT. have been trying for over a week to upload my created files. Non of the other sites did such a great job.

Hi Greg thanks for this, followed everything on the clip however it reads import problems. I used KML and KMZ both the same result. Could you give me any idea what I am doing wrong thanks for your help. Ian

thankks so much. I have the same Garmin my kids bought for me in 04?05? Somewhere in there anyway, so it is seriously the worse for wear. Button covers missing that I can’t replace and so on. It helped me on my 03 RoadGlide till I swapped it (along with a bunch of money, of course) for our current TRIGLIDE ULTRA. It still sits on my handle bar and helps me with speed, fuel and so on. The Ultra has the HD nav suites on board along with their ride planner. It’s OK, but no Garmin. Thinking about getting the Zumo XT but don’t know how to move routes from HD to Garmin. Still researching……..

I followed your instructions. I try to transfer the google map to basecamp The google map track I created populates in basecamp but when I go to the "create route" step in basecamp the route created is not a copy of the track it is a direct route from the starting point to the end point. What could the issue be? Are there some other settings I need to change? Thanks

OMG - I have been searching for this video since I have bought my Garmin! This has been hands down the most helpful video I have seen!!!! Thank you, thank you!

Excellent Video! I accidentally discovered a very similar method after getting very frustrated with my new Zumo and the challenges with Basecamp & Explore. I do like explore better as the route is pushed out through wireless as long as your Zomo is powered up. No need to connect to the PC and go into file transfer mode! - Thank You!

Greg, thanks for posting, I rode this ride for the first time, it was a great day

Best explanation I ve heard so far on Garmin basecamp, Google map & garmin GPS. Thanks a lot, very simple explanation well DONE !!! Un must see to anybody start navigate on a motocycle !