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Garmin BirdsEye User Manual

Garmin BirdsEye User Manual

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BIRDSEYE USERS GUIDE
Contents
Purchasing a BirdsEye Subscription or Credits .................................................................................................... 1
Activating Your Subscription via Your myGarmin Account ............................................................................. 4
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How to Download BirdsEye Imagery ..................................................................................................................... 10
Deleting BirdsEye Imagery ........................................................................................................................................ 15
BirdsEye on Devices after Subscription Expires ............................................................................................... 16

Purchasing a BirdsEye Subscription or Credits

BirdsEye products include Satellite Imagery Subscriptions, TOPO for the U.S and Canada, and Select for
European countries. The subscription based products provide a year of unlimited downloads. Once the
subscription expires, the downloaded images remain on your device (internal memory or expansion SD card).
You must renew your subscription if you want to download more images or move images that you have
previously downloaded but have not transferred to your device. Subscription based imagery files can be sent
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from BaseCamp
to any device with an active subscription for that type of imagery.
Credit based products, such as Birdseye Select, work differently. You purchase credits which allow you to
download a specified amount of coverage from the server. The credits are associated to a specific device and
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cannot be transferred to a new device or recovered if deleted from the device or BaseCamp
.
Birdseye Satellite Imagery
BirdsEye Select Imagery

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Summary of Contents for Garmin BirdsEye

  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Credit based products, such as Birdseye Select, work differently. You purchase credits which allow you to download a specified amount of coverage from the server. The credits are associated to a specific device and...
  • Page 2 1. Select the product you want from the website. 2. BirdsEye subscriptions must be “activated” to your Garmin device. You will be prompted to do this activation after checkout. If you missed this step, or have a device that came preloaded with a...
  • Page 3 3. Clicking “Activate Now” from the Order Confirmation page will take you to your myGarmin account. Here, under the Maps tab, you can see which subscriptions need to be activated. 4. You will see “Activation Complete” when done. Now go to BaseCamp to download the imagery.

  • Page 4: Activating Your Subscription Via Your Mygarmin Account

    Activating Your Subscription via Your myGarmin Account 1. You can manually log into myGarmin to register your device and activate the BirdsEye Subscription to a compatible device. 2. Once in myGarmin, you can go to Maps to see your purchased and current mapping subscriptions.
  • Page 5 3. BirdsEye subscriptions must be associated to a device. By clicking “Activate Now”, you have the option to select a current device or register another device for which to use the subscription.

  • Page 6: Activating Your Subscription Via Basecamp

    Activating Your Subscription via BaseCamp BirdsEye Imagery is downloaded via Garmin BaseCamp. Once you connect a compatible Garmin device, BaseCamp checks to see if the device has an active BirdsEye Subscription or remaining BirdsEye Select credits. 1. Open BaseCamp and connect your device.
  • Page 7 2. Select BirdsEye > Download BirdsEye Imagery from the menu. In this case, it sees the Rino 655t connected to BaseCamp. Windows View: Mac View...
  • Page 8 3. In this example we will select to use this RINO device, even though no BirdsEye products have been activated for this device. It shows no “BirdsEye Select EIRE” credits for this device. (Note, if this was a subscription based product, the button would say “Where is my subscription?”.) 4.
  • Page 9 Order Confirmation or manually via your myGarmin account. 6. The pop up box below is now showing 600 square kilometers of credit for BirdsEye Select EIRE (Ireland) raster maps. Credit amounts vary by product and once they are used up or expired, additional credits can be purchased if more downloads are desired.

  • Page 10: How To Download Birdseye Imagery

    3. BirdsEye will draw a rectangle on the map by default. You can move and resize this box as desired using the tools in the popup window. Give your imagery a meaningful name to identify the area within BaseCamp.
  • Page 11 Mac View: 4. When you are satisfied with the area to download, select “Next” if using Windows or “Confirm” for Mac. For credit based subscriptions, you will be asked to confirm via your myGarmin account, as the selection will reduce your number of remaining credits. Windows View: Mac View:...
  • Page 12 If downloading Satellite Imagery, those screenshots are shown below for Windows. The process is similar for Mac. The Estimated File Size is just that – an estimate. This number can change somewhat once the data is actually downloaded off the server.

  • Page 13: Transferring Images To The Internal Device Memory Or An Sd Card Within The Device

    Transferring Images to the Internal Device Memory or an SD card within the Device Transferring the imagery to your device is simple, and will allow you retain the data permanently. 1. From your “My Collection” menu, drag and drop the imagery into either the “Internal Storage” of the device or into the “User Data”...
  • Page 14 2. Clicking the folder where you dragged the imagery will show what BirdsEye Imagery is on the device. Windows View: Mac View: 3. When you turn on the device, imagery on device internal storage or the memory card will show when you zoom into the area.

  • Page 15: Deleting Birdseye Imagery

    Deleting BirdsEye Imagery 1. To delete BirdsEye Imagery, simply select it from the folder where it is stored, then right click and select “Delete”. Make sure to save any imagery you may want to use at a later date in your “My Collection”...

  • Page 16: Birdseye On Devices After Subscription Expires

    However, without an active subscription you will no longer be able to transfer images stored in your “My Collection” folder to the device or SD card. For BirdsEye Select products, the downloaded imagery is always tied to the device, and can always be transferred to and from the device that originally downloaded it.