Garmin BaseCamp Tutorials for Beginners !

Thank you

Thanks for taking the time to help us all out.

Thanks. This was helpful even for an experience user.

I am replying so I can mark this link.
Will enjoy looking at anything that might help.
Thanks.

Hopefully we can continue to help you.

I had just about given up on Basecamp (well actually... I HAD given up). The videos have me back trying to make use of Basecamp. Thanks...

Good timing. With my recent replacement GPS, I was looking into using Basecamp.

Good stuff

Me too. Thanks

Thanks for the time and energy you spent on this contribution for the members of POI Factory.

these videos are great as a refresher or learning from scratch. I know you've invested significant time in doing these - - thanks for the effort, and I know I speak for many when I say 'we appreciate it'

I have a intermediate level of familiarity with Basecamp. You certainly came up with a couple techniques on the routing stuff that's super helpful. I've seen the rubber-banding technique before but could never figure it out on my own machine. I REALLY like that! Clearly a top 5 feature.

thanks again,

a fellow BMW rider

Comments like yours makes it worth my effort...and that is the intent.
Everyone has to develop their own way to route, Hope I have given a few more choices..the rubber band take a tad practice...but it does work well.

I just found your post and what great timing! An RV forum I participate in just had someone asking about Base Camp and it seemed that like myself, no one was really sure how to use it.

I have recommended POI Factory many times, your forum topic will definitely be passed on. I'm sure others will find it as informative as I have.....Thanks again!

Travel Safe!

Thanks for sharing..hope it helps someone.

It appears we all will be forced to use Basecamp eventually since the newer Garmin receivers will no longer work with Mapsource.

Thanks for your considerable effort in putting the video together!

Thanks, I really appreciate the info.

Thanks, great setup to give to new beginners.

If the new Garmin nuvi models are switched from MTP to MS mode (which is also needed to make a full computer backup of the nuvi), Mapsource will still work with them.

At least I think this is true for all new nuvi models. Can someone confirm or deny my thought.

Lesson 15....Common routing errors and how to avoid them. addressing three or four common errors and the best way to avoid making those, that could have in the middle of a corn field or down a gravel road and have to do u-turn...

Hope this helps...

Short cut to This lesson : http://youtu.be/uS93soMx0Mg

Also added to the Tutorial List as well..

Hope this helps..

Added three new lessons to http://www.poi-factory.com/node/41134 dealing with Sharing data, POI, and Custom Waypoint Symbols...

Thanks for folks here... I have used POI Factory a couple of times to show what is available...

Hope this helps!

Thanks!

Created a forum on Delphi Forums to discuss my videos and in a Motorcycle community application.

The Master List will still remain here for discussion as well..
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/41134

Not to break any rules..but to acknowledge that reference is made to POI Factory may times...and used in the videos. The wealth of knowledge here is unmatched for the support files needed to Learn Garmin BaseCamp.

Pointing folks in this direction can only enhance the learning experience and reference to information files...both linked and copied to share.

Hopefully more POI files and information will be added by those visitors in the future...the intend.

If you care to join the discussion in a motorcycle community environment ... please do...

Check out the welcome for more about how to use Delphi Forums and the forum.. Learn Garmin BaseCamp.
Delphi is a free use forum with options.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/GarminBasecamp

Thanks again to so many that contribute here to make a learning experience easier.

DGN

I call these Nuggets...short bits of information that may help use BaseCamp better or act as review of some important features....

Added three Nuggets...

Hope this helps!

This may be the best 3 minutes you will spend watching these tutorials. An update to use the "ALT" key has made the "Rubber Band" method simple and easy, plus save keystrokes to edit data.

How simple, hold down the "ALT" key and move the route using the pan tool.

http://youtu.be/QiVT1QlvHEg

Hope this helps!

I am new to the world of GPSr and although in the IT industry, found Basecamp difficult for anything but basic routing. Your videos are a godsend! I've only watched the first six so far, but I am already far more comfortable. Thank you!

all of Don's videos if you intend to use Basecamp. They are invaluable! Enjoy

Great job on the videos! Still learning how to use basecamp and I'm finding these very helpful. I do have a couple of questions though, but I'll PM you these later. Thanks for taking the time to put these together for us.

I am a new to basecamp. Your videos are really very helpful. I have watched all of them. Learnt a lot. I hope you will add new videos once the new version comes out this month if there are any major changes to it.

a great introduction. Very helpful

here's another video tutorial done by someone in the UK. Very interesting and a bit more intense. Some very cool stuff is done by this fellow:

https://youtu.be/93tp78uh7lc

I'm one of those people who usually can't make head or tail from any written instructions.

I still prefer MAPSOURCE, but have been dabbling with BC. If I work with something and find out how to do it, I remember it. Many years ago I bought a very thick book to learn about Windows95 and I only ever read or used about 20 pages.

One thing I need to learn about BC is this.

If I want to start a new route, it asks me for the start point and then the end point. Even having as many as 154 waypoints to choose from to add to the route, the how to has still eluded me. I'll be experimenting until I get it and then I'll remember that too.

You can either add the start/end point by dragging the waypoints into the new route box, or close that box and then just click on the map to create a route.

Thanks sussamb, this will give me something to try.

Hi sussamb

OK, I've been playing around with BC and I can now see where and how to add waypoints to a route.

But in having done so I now have several temp folders and the routes I have created are all in the "My Collection" folder.
For instance the "Temp" folders do not have all my routes and not all waypoints either.

Can I delete all "temp" folders as well as the "Unlisted Data" folder?

All the waypoints I want are in "My Collection" as well as all the routes I want.
Thx
R

Easy one first. The Unlisted data folder contains anything that isn't listed anywhere else, so if you don't want any of the data in it then you can safely delete them.

Now the trickier one. BaseCamp is a database. What 'data' you see is simply a pointer to the actual data. There are two ways of deleting these pointers. One way simply removes that particular pointer, so if there are other pointers in other lists they will still exist, as will the data. If there aren't any pointers in any other list a pointer will be created in the Unlisted data folder.

Hopefully you're still following me

The second method deletes all the pointers and, importantly, the data. There is then no way back! Well there is but it depends on you having backed up the data beforehand.

You can see the different choices if you right click the relevant data, or rather pointers

Note though that My Collection will show ALL pointers, which will include the pointers in your various temp folders, so you can't simply delete the temp folders you mention. If you don't want the folders then just remove the pointers from those folders then you can delete them, the data will then still exist with a pointer to it elsewhere, either in unlisted data or another folder where it exists.

Folders and lists are a great way to organise lots of data, but it can be confusing at first

Hope that helps!

Got my homework cut out for me sussamb.
Just one more thing. What is it you are referring to as pointers?
Pointers? Individual way-points?
Sorry for the many queries.

It's what most people think of as data when they use BaseCamp. It's anything that you see in the lists and folders. I was trying to make the point BaseCamp is a database, what you see in the various lists isn't the data itself, just a pointer to it. This is why you can have one item in numerous lists and folders. It's also why if you change it in one list it'll change in all lists, because you're changing the data itself, but you can remove it from one list and it'll remain elsewhere, because all you've removed is the pointer, not the data. Being able to organise your data into folders and lists is the real power of BaseCamp

As an example I have 5 main folders in BaseCamp, some with sub folders, all with multiple lists. They contain not only driving routes but also all my walking routes, and hundreds of waypoints.

Why are the videos not available anymore.

This has been explained here, or more accurately, it discusses how to try to contact the creator of the videos:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/52536

What can be said is that either Norwood or YouTube made them inaccessible or Private and we may never know why.