Basecamp Birdseye Imaging

Former Member over 14 years ago

My first post so Hi to everybody.
I recently purchased the Garmin 450T and have got all working apart from a few problems. It come installed with recreational map europe and Garmin GB discovery 50K. I have all this in basecamp with maps unlocked ok. I purchased the Birdseye add on have this working but it does not seem to do a lot. It looks like when the GB map is on it upscales the map i think to 25k which is great, however i was hoping for a satellite image like google earth to help plan tracks waypoints etc. No matter what map i have installed i cannot get this detail. On a point of interest i then went to Goole earth to save a map overlay as a KML.KMZ file but this also will not import into basecamp. Any ideas please.

0 PSEABOLT over 14 years ago

Being in the US means I am just guessing but I think birds eye view varies depending on the location you have downloaded. I have been pleased with the detail I have downloaded and found a few spots better than google earth. However I realize google earth is constantly improving their maps and a comparison 5 months ago may be reversed today.

For my use I much prefer Garmin Custom Maps. The Garmin Custom Map Forum has some custom maps you can download. Custom maps, the short version allows you to take a jpeg or pdf overlay, use google earth to scale the map upload to BaseCamp and your GPS.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

Many thanks for reply will have a good read and see if i can crack this .

0 azdrmn over 14 years ago

From your post, I'm not sure if you purchased BirdsEye Satellite imagery or BirdsEye Select. You need the Satellite imagery subscription if that's what you want. There is a preview mode for the Satellite imagery that I encourage anyone who is interested in purchasing the feature to try first.