Garmin BaseCamp Route Structure for Mac

This video describes the elements that make up the structure of a route in #Garmin #BaseCamp for #Mac. We look at how they appear within BaseCamp, how they appear on a Garmin device and how they are navigated in the real world. This video also shows what happens when you miss a via point or deviate from a route while navigating it. With this knowledge you can proceed to create accurate and reusable custom routes.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 How to view the detailed map
00:44 Plotting a simple route
01:35 How via points work
04:28 Waypoints
05:28 Sending route to device
05:45 Via points on the device
05:49 Start via point
06:55 Alerting via points
07:52 Non-alerting via points (shaping points)
08:45 End via point
09:30 Differences between alerting and non alerting via points
12:25 Deviating from a programmed route
14:10 Alerting via point flag analogy
15:30 Stripping shaping points from a route
18:02 Garmin route point extensions
19:32 Navigating a route with no shaping points
21:17 Route recalculation discussion
23:41 Summary

[@scubabiker7]

Cheers for this. I have been struggling for ages to get routes to follow (non-alerting waypoints, alerting waypoints, but not shaping points….)etc, and you have explained it brilliantly - thanks!!

[@JosephByrne]

Great to hear Andrew. Thanks for the feedback.

[@alexahesteh]

Extremely helpful video 😃 thanks for your time and all of those work you put in 🙋🏽‍♂️🍻 cheers

[@JosephByrne]

Anytime Alex. Thanks for the feedback.

[@BrokenToeKnee]

Another well done tutorial. Thank you.

[@JosephByrne]

Anytime Tony. Thanks for the feedback.

[@ThrillaPark]

On behalf of all Basecamp users: Thank you for these videos! BC is so horrible. They should pay for a years worth of massages for you! Cheers!

[@JosephByrne]

Thanks Alex. For some reason my brain just gets BaseCamp. Great feedback and I'll keep working on the rest of the series.

[@cesscab]

Vous semblez être propriétaire d'une Kawasaki...ce qui est un signe de classe .... ;-) Vous utilisez aussi le drapeau européen ce qui, pour un anglais, est un signe d'humour certain.... :-) Vous utilisez enfin un mac...signe de bon goût... ;-) Mais sutout...vous expliquez d'une façon parfaite une spécificité essentielle du logiciel BaseCamp sur laquelle je butais depuis des années. oui, les Garmin fonctionnent aussi sur les routes à conduite à gauche.... 😅 Un grand merci ...vraiment !!! 👍 Patrick 😊

[@JosephByrne]

Thanks Patrick. It's actually a Honda but the 2010 model year had a Green colour scheme available which I liked. I'm a citizen of the EU and love the EU flag. Thanks for the feedback.

[@user-up4wb8ze8r]

Thanks!

[@JosephByrne]

Anytime. Thank you for the feedback.

[@LTVoyager]

Nice, clear explanations. Do you plan to cover trip planner in a future video? I use it a lot, but it has some quirks (at least in v4.6) that are mildly annoying, particularly the way it handles dates.

[@JosephByrne]

Thanks. It took a while to put this video together because I kept discovering more and more layers of the BaseCamp onion. I plan to look at Trip Planner in a future video.

[@jaredwhite489]

Why would I use base camp vs the website?

[@LTVoyager]

Which version of BC are you running? I was running 4.6 and upgraded to 4.7 a few years ago and had a number of issues. I ended up rolling back to 4.6. Now that 4.8 is out, I am wondering if the issues with 4.7 have been corrected.

[@JosephByrne]

Hi. I made this video using version 4.8.4 which was the latest available when I came to download it. I've found it to be stable on the Mac.

[@LTVoyager]

I just returned from a ride to Alaska and decided to upgrade Basecamp. I was at 4.6. The automatic upgrade option only say 4.7 and did not give 4.8 as an option so I decided to just download and install 4.8. That may have been a mistake as I lost the last trip I had created which was for my recently completed ride to Alaska. I was able to upload it from the BMW Nav V into Basecamp, but it is weird that all of my old trips were found, but not the most recent one. I suspect it is still on the hard drive somewhat, but I am not sure what BC’s file structure is and not sure where to look for it. The only annoyance in uploading from the device is that you can’t upload as a trip, only as a series of routes.

[@JosephByrne]

@@LTVoyager That's strange. Maybe the new version created a new database. The old database should still be on your hard disk. You can connect to it if you can find it.

[@LTVoyager]

jobybyrne Yes, I have a little more research to do to see if I can find where it is stored.