Youtube - a New Garmin GPS Owner's Best Friend!

If you are trying to understand your new GPS receiver, and even more so if you are trying to get up to speed using the software for the Garmin GPS - Garmin Basecamp, look to Youtube for help.

Garmin Basecamp

After going to Youtube, use the search engine to search for the GPS receiver model you use, or for Garmin Basecamp.  (Be sure to use both words, as there is a database program called "Basecamp" and you don't want those videos.)

Garmin also maintains a library of videos, such as these on Basecamp LINK and these on the Garmin GPSmap 62 ST (which applies to any of the 62 series receivers) LINK.

When I was still learning Basecamp after switching from Garmin's earlier "Mapsource" program (no longer maintained by Garmin and not recommended by this blogger), I would take an iPad to the gym and watch videos on Youtube, then re-watch many of them, trying to understand what was going on.  An elliptical is the perfect place to pour through these 

Here are links to 3 videos by the same guy about Garmin Basecamp. These three videos are the single best resource I have ever come across for learning the Basecamp program and have watched each of the three videos at least 10 times.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

I also recommend videos by GPS retailers, such as GPS City.  Here is an example, LINK about creating a route on Basecamp.