Is there a way to load google map/earth aerial photos into basecamp. For many reasons I like the google map photos a lot better than the birdseye view photos and would like to be able to view them in basecamp and store them for off-line use or possible use on my Oregon 450.
I'm not sure Google will look too kindly at your intentions :-)
If you can figure out a way to get that imagery in a KML file, you could import that KML into BaseCamp (as long as it uses the GroundOverlay element) and vola, you have Google's satellite imagery in BaseCamp and on your device!
You can try this:
- Make screenshots of your Google Map/Earth displays and save them as jpg-files.
- Import these screenshots as overlays in Google Earth and position them exactly on their original location.
- Save the overlays (individually or as a group) as a KML of KMZ file
- Load this KML/KMZ into Basecamp and voilà.
These same KML/KMZ-files can be uploaded to your Oregon as a Custom Map.
As others have said, you can import kml/kmz files to BaseCamp. But the Oregon 450 will only display kmz files as CustomMaps. The process of making these CustomMaps is not too hard but mapping software like TopoFusion make it quite easy to produce such maps. The number of kmz tiles is limited to 200 on your device, so don't expect them to cover larger areas.
However, with my OR300, I am only allowed 1 CustomMap to enable/disable. This is too bad, because it means that if I have multiple raster maps of the same region, in my case archaeological and geological, I can only see the last one I loaded. In order to view the other map, I need to connect my OR to a PC and rename or swap out a KMZ file.
If you are listening, Garmin. It would be really nice to have the possibility of multiple CustomMaps selectable from the GPSr.
While CustomMaps are eneabled/disabled in bulk and not individually, you can have up to 200 kmz files in the CustomMap folder and all should be accessible if they also conform to the tile limitation.
So in your case, maybe your maps cover too much area.
Another possibility is the transparency of the map. Both need to be transparent to be able to be displayed together on the same screen.
