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Tutorial 1: Installing Downloadable Maps to Garmin's BaseCamp software and your GPS
If you have purchased or downloaded a map from our website, this tutorial will walk you through the steps of installing BaseCamp, downloading and unlocking your map, and finally transferring the map to your GPS. Watch this Tutorial on Video
Tutorial 1M: Installing Downloadable Maps to Garmin's Mapsource software and your GPSOnly use this Tutorial if you already have Garmin's MapSource software installed on your computer, or your GPS came with a 'Trip and Waypoint Manager' (Mapsource) CD.
Tutorial 2: Unlocking maps for your GPS in the MyMaps Area of this website
This tutorial will walk you through the steps to take if you have purchased a Map download and need instructions for unlocking the map to use in Garmin's Mapsource.
Video Tutorial 3: Garmin's Video Tutorial on MapSource Basics
Selecting and Saving Map Products to your Garmin GPS.
Tutorial 5: Using your Laptop as a GPS
This tutorial will walk you through using Garmin's nRoute software or MobilePC software to turn your computer into a GPS.
Tutorial 6: Transferring Multiple Maps to your GPS - Layering Maps
This tutorial will walk you through the process of transferring multiple mapsets to your GPS.
Tutorial 7: Turning On and Off Map Layers on your Garmin GPS
This tutorial will walk you through the process of turning on and off the different map layers you have loaded onto your GPS.
Tutorial 8: Google Earth and GPS Based BLM Maps for Hunt Planning by Len Backus of LongRangeHunting.com
Tips and Tricks for using our BLM4GPS map in combination with Google Earth for Trip Planning and Scouting
Tutorial 9: Unlocking the maps for a 2nd GPS unit
Got a new GPS? This tutorial will show you how to add a 2nd unlock code to send one of our locked maps to a 2nd GPS unit. Watch this tutorial on video.
Tutorial 10: Updating your downloadable map
Want to update your downloaded map? This tutorial will show you how to replace your old map for the newest version.
Tutorial 11: Installing and viewing your Digital Hunter DVD data
This tutorial explains, step by step, how to install, organize, and view the Digital Hunter DVD data in Google Earth and on your Garmin. (If you do not need a lengthy explanation of installing and using this data click here to view the Digital Hunter Quick Start Guide.)
Tutorial 12: Importing and Exporting Waypoints and Tracks to and from your GPS and your Computer
BACKUP YOUR VALUABLE GPS WAYPOINTS THAT YOU HAVE COLLECTED OVER THE YEARS! If you’ve never saved a waypoint or track from your GPS onto your computer, now is the time to learn. In this Tutorial I will go through the steps of saving a .gdb file with waypoint & track information using Garmin’s BaseCamp software.
Tutorial 13: Trip Planning and Scouting from home. Creating Tracks and Waypoints in BaseCamp to send to your GPS
HAVE YOU EVER MADE WAYPOINTS AND TRACKS IN BASECAMP AND THEN SENT THEM TO YOUR GPS? Well if not this tutorial will walk you through the process. Now you can scout at home on your computer and then send valuable waypoints and tracks to your GPS for use in the field
Tutorial 14: Using Google Earth to Create Tracks and Waypoints to send to your GPS
YOU CAN USE SATELLITE IMAGERY IN GOOGLE EARTH TO MAKE WAYPOINTS AND TRACKS TO SEND TO YOUR GPS! This tutorial will walk you through the steps of scouting in google earth and making waypoints and tracks to send to your GPS. Now you can plan a hunt from the comfort of your home!
Tutorial 15: Installing and using your Google Earth Overlay
This Tutorial will walk you through the steps of installing your Google Earth overlay and show you how to view and access key features of the map in Google Earth.
For more information look up your specific unit's user's manual at the Garmin site
