Garmin BaseCamp. Garmin® BaseCamp® provides an interface for viewing Garmin map products and managing geographic data. With BaseCamp, you can perform the following tasks:. Transfer data to and from your Garmin device. Create, view, edit, and organize waypoints, routes, and tracks. Garmin Support Center is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products. JavaScript must be enabled in order to use this site.Please enable JavaScript in your browser and refresh the page. BaseCamp lets you geotag photos, associating them with specific waypoints. You can see the exact scenery at any given location. Transfer the photos to your handheld device, publish photos directly to Picasa™, or email your geotagged photos directly to friends or family so they can navigate right to your favourite spots in the future. Basecamp for your Mac or PC. When it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get to work, Basecamp is right there alongside the apps you use every day on your Mac or Windows PC. Basecamp in your web browser. Basecamp works anywhere you’ve got a web browser and the internet. Laptop, phone, tablet, hotel lounge, school computer lab.
Whether you're at the office or out and about, Basecamp is ready whenever and wherever you are.
Basecamp for iOS and Android devices
Comment, catch-up, chat, or even put those notifications on snooze — you can do it all with Basecamp apps for iPhone, iPad, or Android phone.
Basecamp for your Mac or PC
When it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get to work, Basecamp is right there alongside the apps you use every day on your Mac or Windows PC.
Basecamp in your web browser
Basecamp works anywhere you’ve got a web browser and the internet. Laptop, phone, tablet, hotel lounge, school computer lab, etc.
Basecamp integrations
Get even more out of Basecamp by integrating it with the other tools you already use. View the full list of Basecamp integrations here.
Basecamp in your email inbox
Garmin Basecamp For Mac 10.11
Prefer your email inbox over apps? No problem! You can reply to most Basecamp emails right from your inbox.
Plan a Trip
How To Use Garmin Basecamp For Mac
Use BaseCamp to plan your next hiking, biking, motorcycling, driving or off-roading trip. You can view maps, plan routes, and mark waypoints and tracks from your computer and then transfer them to your device.
Track Draw feature lets you trace your planned route and view elevation changes, helping you estimate the difficulty of a hike or bike ride. Plan the perfect scenic route for your next road trip, making sure your navigator takes you through certain waypoints. Play back your routes and tracks over time and save and share your adventure.
Survey the Terrain
BaseCamp displays your topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on your computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles. Load map data from your handheld device, or import maps you’ve downloaded or purchased on DVD or microSD™ card. Consider our TOPO series maps, which offer detail on a scale of either 1:100,000 or 1:24,000.
Geotag Photos
BaseCamp lets you geotag photos, associating them with specific waypoints. You can see the exact scenery at any given location. Transfer the photos to your handheld device, publish photos directly to Picasa™, or email your geotagged photos directly to friends or family so they can navigate right to your favorite spots in the future.
Create and Share Adventures
Garmin Adventures provides a free, interactive way to share your hikes, bike rides, road trips and more. Using BaseCamp, you can combine track logs, waypoints, geotagged photos, YouTube® videos and more into an adventure that gets published online. You can then email a link to your adventure to friends and family, share it on social media sites or even post it in your favorite forums. BaseCamp even makes it easy to follow in the footsteps of other travelers by allowing you to search for and download adventures.
Transfer Satellite Images
With BaseCamp and a BirdsEye Satellite Imagery subscription, you can transfer an unlimited amount of satellite images to your outdoor or fitness device and seamlessly integrate those images into your maps to get a true representation of your surroundings. It makes it easy to scout campsites, sources of water, potential hazards and more. If you prefer raster topographic maps, you can also download BirdsEye Select maps and pay only for the data you download.
Garmin Basecamp For Mac Tutorial
Features:
Import and view maps in 2-D or 3-D, including TOPO and City Navigator® maps.
Create, edit and organize routes, waypoints and more on your computer.
View BirdsEye Satellite Imagery or BirdsEye Select raster maps, and transfer the data to your device (subscriptions required).
Create and share Garmin Adventures.
Create and share geotagged photos.
View playback of routes, tracks and adventures.
Search for geocaches through integrated OpenCaching support.
For Mac
BaseCamp is a 3D mapping application that allows you to transfer Garmin Custom Maps, BirdsEye Imagery, waypoints, tracks, and routes between your Mac and Garmin device. It allows you to manage your data on practically all Garmin map products, but topographic maps are required for 3-D rendering.
Garmin Basecamp For Mac 10.9
Features:
Plan a multi-day trip and pick lodging, food and other stops using your maps and Yelp
Transfer waypoints, geocaches, routes, and tracks to and from your GPS device.
Create, view, edit, and organize waypoints, routes, and tracks.
Find places, such as addresses, points of interest, and public land survey areas included in your detailed map data.
Download, display, and transfer BirdsEye imagery to supported devices.
Import, display and transfer Garmin Custom Maps to supported devices.
Track Draw
Printing the map, driving directions, and route and track profiles
View in Google Earth
Advanced geocache support
Geotagging photos
Photo waypoints
Integrated support for publishing photos online
Track and route play back
Exchange custom waypoint symbols with selected devices
What’s New:
Windows version updated to 4.7.2
macOS version updated to 4.8.10
Fixed an issue displaying route elevation graphs
Fixed several issues when using the Pan Tool and the key to move route points
Fixed autorouting issue where straight line segments were inserted after each waypoint
Improved track to route behavior. Now supports preserving the shape of track sections that aren’t near a road.
Improved handling in situations where the computer is low on memory
Changed displayed route times to take layovers into account
Fixed issue with ‘higher education’ map symbols showing up as airports
Fixed certain instances of route direction text where the text was ‘turn left/right’ instead of ‘bear left/right’
Fixed issue when recalculating a route via the context menu in the data list
Fixed various issues sending data to memory cards
Changed to automatically unlock BirdsEye for a device when sending the BirdsEye to a card in that device
Fixed various issues with Adventure search
Fixed issue sending ADM files to cards for marine devices
Added the command line option /Disable3D to disable the 3D view in BaseCamp. This was added to prevent startup issues with misbehaving graphics drivers.