Garmin BaseCamp™ Creating Waypoints

[@Trumpets4me]

Come on Garmin, admit defeat your tutorials don't come close to Tim's. Garmin should recommend Tim to anybody who wants to learn how to use Basecamp. I'm blown away at the detail and content of your videos. Anyway I must dash, as I'm off to watch part 6 now. 😂👍🏍

[@EZMotoTim]

Thanks for your kind words. It's gratifying to know viewers are learning so much.

[@redcanoe2637]

My go-to Garmin Base Camp tutorial videos, Thank you Tim!

[@timsnyder2175]

Thanks for watching.

[@jansmit4628]

Nice and clear explanations on the Basecamp program. Adding waypoints after each major intersection is a good trick, but causes issues when reversing a route. You just moved them to the other part of a devided route, but you should also move them to the other side of the intersection to avoid the double messages of "you arrived ..." and "turn ......".
The inconvenience of these added waypoint is not a big issue for me as I don't like to drive the same route on my return drive.

[@EZMotoTim]

Yep, If you duplicate a route for the return, you have to move the waypoints appropriately.

[@Waqas-Taqee]

thanks

[@robertyork4041]

As clear as crystal, thanks.

[@EZMotoTim]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

[@jimmarshall807]

Thanks again Tim

[@EZMotoTim]

Thank you.

[@SteveInskip]

Great tutorial. Thank you!

[@EZMotoTim]

Thank you. If you haven't done so already, be sure to watch the rest of the videos in this series of tutorials. Thanks for watching.

[@SteveInskip]

@@EZMotoTim I’m working my way through them! Thanks again!

[@laosgpsmapmidnitemapper9411]

Thanks fantastic

[@EZMotoTim]

Thanks for watching.

[@Pedro-uo5do]

Great videos Tim well done and thanks for sharing. One item though I didn't seem to find in your videos and this is about sending POI's to Garmin GPS' along with the route. When you are on your motobike navigating a route on your Garmin GPS, you'd like the POI's to display on screen. Despite many tutorials I've seen, I'm not able to find a way of getting the POI's embedded in the GPS' route and display on screen. Can you show how is this done? Many thanks. Pedro

[@EZMotoTim]

I believe the answer is to make sure the shaping/waypoints are marked to alert in the Route Details screen in BaseCamp™.

[@Trenton207]

I hope Garmin are paying you Tim, because without your videos, Basecamp would have to be the worst program I’ve ever used. The mere fact that you need to do so many videos only proves how clunky it is. Thank you so much for helping to make Basecamp at least bearable.

[@EZMotoTim]

No compensation from Garmin. After a little more time with it Basecamp will become more than bearable. Thanks for watching.

[@jessealexander7324]

Awesome stuff! Thank you for taking the time to do this. Just a TX thing, Llano is pronounced LAN-oh :)

[@EZMotoTim]

Thanks for watching.

[@groverstudiosinc]

Every video builds on the last, which is great. I assume we'll learn this in upcoming videos, but I'm hoping to understand how to modify the autorouting situation where I want to start out on interstates to get out of a big town like Atlanta, but then avoid interstates after that. I did figure out how to modify the autorouting for car vs motorcycle, and now my gps has the "adventurous routing" sliders, but I'm stuck either ignoring the route (which then tries to recalculate on the GPS), or spending a ton of time fixing the ends of the route while leaving the middle section "adventurous" within basecamp. Another similar situation occurs when downloading a gpx from a friend, where you need to go and add beginning and end points + the via points or the route will recalculate on the GPS and lose all the fun roads.

[@groverstudiosinc]

For example, I just created a route in Basecamp using the active map that was downloaded from the gps. When uploading the route to the gps, the notification box says that the route was recalculated because the maps used to create the route is not installed on the gps. This is the kind of frustration that you get with garmin!

[@EZMotoTim]

@@groverstudiosinc Have you loaded the maps using Garmin Express to both the GPS and the computer? Build your routes using the City Navigator map on the computer, not the map of the connected GPS..

[@groverstudiosinc]

@@EZMotoTim I did do that as specified in the other videos, but I am a beginner so I may have screwed it up. I was able to get an "autoroute" from basecamp to the gps, and I followed it today for an 8 hour ride with auto calculation turned off. It worked very well, but some sort of recalculation was going on. Esp when I purposely left the route to test the behaviour. I'll get it figured out. Thanks again for the great material.

[@andrewrussell9995]

THANK YOU for these tutorials! BUT! I have a Garmin Nuvi 2595, and it must be one of those "older" models where waypoints, shaping points (alert), and shaping points (won't alert) all act the same - you must cross through each of those before continuing. So how do I identify which Garmin models allow skipping (won't alert) shaping points?

[@EZMotoTim]

That's a question for Garmin. My Zumo 665 does not recognize Won't Alert, and my Zumo XT does. Thanks for watching.

[@andrewrussell9995]

@@EZMotoTim Some more research uncovers that Garmins GPS units (other than Zumos?) released after 2013 have the ability to skip shaping points. Those released in 2012 (like my Nuvi 2595) and earlier do not. Garmins released in 2013 may or may not have the ability - TEST! I am now having great fun playing with a new Drivesmart 65 with Alexa. Many, many thanks, Tim, for your excellent videos!

[@EZMotoTim]

@@andrewrussell9995 That's very helpful information that will help others with older units.

[@mikedeamer4837]

Hi Tim, when manually making a route using the pen which you get when clicking new route, after I have dragged the map using the hand symbol I cannot find the pen symbol again to carry on making my route and I have to start again. I have been getting round this by using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out and using the keyboard directional keys to move the map around. Hoping you can help? I am up to video 6 at the moment so maybe you have mentioned it in another video.
kind regards
Mike UK

[@EZMotoTim]

Once you go away from the route icon to the hand, you have ended the route. You can extend the route by making a new one then joining the routes or you can add waypoints and drag. For what you want to do, however, is to not go away from the route icon and use the arrow keys to move the map.

[@deepdiver51]

You created waypoints called Dairy Queen and Someone’s Home but there you stopped. You didn’t say or do anything or show that the route had changed to ‘visit’ those places.

[@ADVTelluride]

He did. Go to 5:20

[@ejpmooB]

so if I double click a waypoint that is already on the map, I get the option to add it to the route, if I double click on a waypoint I just made myself, that option is not available ... then I have to search for the waypoint I just made, and then select that and then I can choose to add it to the route ... before I can try that, the program crashes. I start again, and hey, that's amusing, every time I double click a waypoint now, it ads a copy of itself ...

[@EZMotoTim]

I've not experienced any program crashes. You might try backing up your data then uninstalling and reinstalling BaseCamp. Then restore the data. Thanks for watching.

[@ejpmooB]

@@EZMotoTim well I learned something because of your video so thank you for that ... but I think this is the most frustrating piece of software I have ever used ...