How to Delete a Map from Garmin’s BaseCamp — on a Windows 7 Operating System

© 2013 Peter Free

 

10 July 2013

 

 

Garmin’s BaseCamp is obtuse software

 

BaseCamp has numerous obvious flaws, including an unnecessarily unintuitive and sometimes crippled interface.

 

Perhaps most revealing is its inability to delete unwanted maps from its own database.

 

Added to that is the almost obstructive worthlessness of BaseCamp’s “help” menu, which cannot even find obvious keywords.

 

 

To delete an unwanted map from the Windows 7 version of BaseCamp

 

(1) Close BaseCamp

 

(2) Go to Computer — located under the Windows 7 Start Directory, located at the Windows icon at the leftmost end of the bottom screen menu bar — or, alternatively, at the Windows key on your keyboard

 

(3) Look on the left side of the screen menu for Local Disk (C:) — double click on it

 

(4) Scroll down to the “garmin” folder — double click to open it

 

(5) Find the folder for the applicable map — it should have the same name as the one which you saw on the BaseCamps maps menu

 

(6) Highlight the map that you do not want, and delete it

 

(7) Restart BaseCamp — the maps menu should now be missing the map that you deleted from your C drive

 

 

The moral? — In today’s world, if it’s tech, it doesn’t need to be functionally good

 

BaseCamp is a lackadaisically designed piece of software.  The lack of effort put into it would embarrass a competent software engineer.

 

Garmin’s GPSMaps 62sc unit had significant drawbacks for my very basic purposes.  I was even less impressed with the company’s rendition of the BaseCamp software necessary to make that GPS unit more useful.