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.

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.

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.
  • 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 4.7.5

  • Fixed zumo connection issue
  • Various stability and bug fixes

macOS version updated to 4.8.12

  • Various stability and bug fixes
  • 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.