If you use the Garmin navigator and are going on a trip, you should pay attention to BaseCamp. It will help you view and organize your map collection, indicate waypoints, build routes, display tracks, and transfer this data to your Garmin device. The program can be run on the Windows operating system, so that we will tell you more about it.

Support for map material

Garmin BaseCamp for Windows supports map material installed on the SD data card or your navigator. Now you can connect your navigator and navigate to the desired location on the map, mark important waypoints, and find the needed address and interesting places immediately after launching Basecamp. The map will be available on your computer while the device or the card is connected.

Convenient work with data

The work with the user data, such as waypoints, found geocaches, tracks, and routes, is one of the primary features of this program. You can exchange information between your computer and your navigator. It also supports the creation, editing, and convenient organization by the category for the saved data. The screen will show tracks, routes, and points you have marked and used in the navigator.

Interoperability between devices

This program supports displaying and transferring Garmin Custom Maps (user-created maps from raster images, snapshots, and scanned maps) to other devices.

Integration with other devices

Garmin BaseCamp is integrated with the BirdsEye service. This is a convenient tool for working with satellite imagery. Downloading satellite imagery for a given territory, displaying the downloaded satellite imagery, recording the resulting cartographic data in the navigator with support for the BirdsEye service, and other valuable features are available in this program.

The program can also give you an overview of the selected area in the Google Earth program. You can always view the place of interest on satellite imagery using Google Earth, but you must install the Google Earth program first.

Additional features of the program

Garmin BaseCamp for Windows has various features that can be useful for every traveler. We will list some of those features that were not mentioned above:

• The ability to work with geocaching data;

• Location-marked photos. You can upload geotagged photos to the program to display them on the map and upload them to other navigators;

• Support for publishing photos on the Internet;

• Interoperability between devices containing points with customizable user symbols. You can create your own point symbol, save it to your device, and then transfer it to another device using Basecamp;

• Basecamp has features to display maps in 3D view if you have the appropriate information on the map.