Garmin Birdseye not ready for primetime

[+northernpenguin]

The way they are handling the data management is nt very good...

 

"Handling". Yeah, that's not the term I'd use.... clearly Basecamp cannot "Handle" copious amounts of data.

[+coggins]

I created an automation utility to tile an area and initiate each of the downloads, it works pretty good but needs some more testing and cleanup - you can see a (bad) video of it in action:

 

That looks pretty slick

[+musmanfam]

Probably should of read the forums before I bought this. Heading camping tomorrow and just remembered I wanted to get this purchased and loaded well before I left. So much for that, I can't even figure out how to get the maps to download! When I open up Basecamp it asks me if I want to create BirdsEye Imagery for my device. I select the area I want, it confirms my subscription and when I hit download I get this:

 

There was an error obtaining the tile information. Please try again.

 

Am I missing something?

[+BStheTech]

Here is a more up to date thread I started. I was able to get it to work and for my area the maps are stunning. Great addition to my 62st.

 

Birdseye hate

 

B.

[Sigtryg]

I just bought a Garmin Rino 650t and downloaded Basecamp. I began downloading a small Birdseye map and found it is slower than molasses in the Yukon and searched this thread. It appears Garmin has made no improvements in a half decade.