Garmin BaseCamp App Reviews

The splash screen will not dismiss when you click the “Start Using Basecamp” button. Also other strange issues like random crashes at startup. This does not seem ready for Yosemite. Yosemite 10.10 and basecamp 4.4.3.

I installed BaseCamp V. 4.4.3 on my MacBook Pro (late 2012). I also installed the Garmin Southeast TOPO map software. After installation, I clicked on the BaseCamp icon. Almost immediately, the Problem Report window popped up with the note “BaseCamp quit unexpectedly”. I removed the app and the mapping software, then reinstalled the app. The same Problem Report popped up. Until this is fixed, BaseCamp is garbage.

I cannot get the splash screen to close, nor will it import a .KMZ file exported from Google Maps. Hoping for a patch soon.

Crashes everytime I try to import, crashes everythime SD card is connected...

The first time I installed it on my iMac, I could not remove or get around the splash page. I removed it and reinstalled it. It worked like a charm, but it could not read or detect the internal map on the Garmin 600 Montana. I exited the software and now all I get is a window that says “BaseCamp quit unexpectedly.” I loaded BaseCamp on a PC. It works great. Something is indeed broke in the software for the Mac.

Hurry up garmin and update this app it crashes all the time and doesnt even read the maps on the device. Its just garbage now

Please be careful if you update to this version. The trip planner feature does not work.

It’s amazing that a major company like this could be so ignorant of the state of software even 10 years ago that they would even consider putting their name on this absolutely primitive and largely unusable worthless waste of time. I just can’t believe it.

Horrible piece of software and virtually unusable. A total waste of time and I will definitley take this off of my MAC.

Well, imagine my surprise that a MAPPING COMPANY blows at making a mapping app. All I wanted to freaking do is plan a trip on my Nuvi where I wouldn’t be on the interstate the whole time. I did it in about 45 seconds in Google Maps. After 20 minutes on this piece of garbage, I gave up and am considering buying a different GPS I’m so mad.

This app is simply not worth it. It’s free so that meamns it is not worth the investment of your time to find out that it is simply cr*p. It exhibits 30 year old programing skills. I tried to save data that I downloaded from my Garmin Edge 800 and after a few minutes, I got the message that I didn’t have enough memory. This is with an iMac with 16 G of ram and a tera byte hard drive. The app claims it can install a Garmin street map from your GPS. Not so. It doen’t seem to know where to find it, so it says none available. It’s a GARMIN device! Why doesn’t a Garmin app know where to look for a map on their own devices? It’s on the SD card that came with the unit. There doesn’t seem to be a way for me to navigate to the map either.

Hi. A garmin rep (after much frustration from me) directed me to this software. It worked the way she explained, and allows me to view and manage files on my new eTrex 20x. The app store version was seamless, and is better than most of Garmins other software for OS X. Not perfect UI or features, but works as specified. Also, the ability to talk to a live person who wants you to be successful with the software and hardware is a real luxury - garmin.com has support numbers for your region.

It is hard for me to fathom how Garmin could build a computer based app that actually makes the device MORE difficult and unreliable. All around Garmin makes the best hardware GPS device, with the most intuitive interface. I don’t know what their problem is with computer support software development but their software for PC’s/Mac’s is beyond terrible. Basecamp seems to be the apex of their failure. After sitting through 2 failed 2 hour downloads of ‘map updates’ for some unknown reason… I can download a 4.8 gig movie in 12 minutes but for some strange reason their crappy app takes 1.5 hours to download and because they don’t check available space on the device until AFTER the download, I had to do it three times. Then I got into Basecamp… finally. Simply trying to build a route to a hotel in Dallas… on my BMW Navigator V. After several failed attempts, I gave up and did the trip on the device interface. Much easier. I’m not sure if Garmin has just farmed out all their software development to Mumbai or what. For a company who relies on “you get what you pay for” when it comes to their overpriced hardware…. they ought to tell their software development VP that .30 cents a day to outsourced programmers gets you software that frustrates your base consumer. F -

I’ve had my Garmin Rino 530HCX for years but havent used it lately. I downloaded the app to my Macbook pro IOS ver 10.10 The download took maybe 15 minutes. I didn’t time it. I had not even connected my handheld device to this computer before, either. It booted right up. It showed all the files I have already loaded on my device. I ordered the micro SD card with the Canada maps I need for this hunting trip. Doesn’t look like I wil have a problem at all. Maybe I will give a report later. After the trip.

My First GARMIN GPS was a NUVI 750. And back in those days, GARMIN had a Mac-only Navigation application called ROAD TRIP written by a crew of Mac users, and was relatively easy to learn. But GARMIN decided to merge the Mac/Windows Teams and moved over all of ROAD TRIP’s procedures into a combined Windows/Mac app called BASE CAMP. The result was (and still is) a minor travesty. What was simple to operate, is now confusing. Now you dont know if you need the OPTION key or CONTROL key to accomplish a routine operation. But that’s not the real problem. The current “version” dropped a lot of data that I had used in previous routes. GARMIN’s response is to file a “Map Error”, but that’s STUPID. If a PILOT Truck Stop was in an earlier map, (and it didn’t burn down) why would it disappear??? That’s just the smoke. Most likely the whole BASE CAMP and it’s maps are on FIRE. This weekend I looked for a restaurant near Okeechobee. BASECAMP said it was about 40 miles away from an intersection. MAPS and Google Maps both had it right. 5 miles! Even GAS BUDDY’s map had it right. This Navigation application is cumbersome, far more difficult to use than the MAC version, and attempting to correct all the faults in Garmin’s procedures and their corruption of Mapping data is NOT our job!

After moving operating systems to Apple I replaced my trusty Delorme PN-60 (w/ Spot) setup with a GPSmap 64st. I didn’t want to have to partition my new Mac. BIG mistake! Basecamp is most definately not ready for prime time. System keeps crashing everytime I try to sync a device (Verb, Nuvi or 64st). As I utilze all these devices for work it is a grave disappointment…very frustrating.