https://digdilem.org/categories/mapping/index.html Hugo en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:33:43 +0000 https://digdilem.org/misc/solving-basecamp/index.html Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:33:43 +0000 https://digdilem.org/misc/solving-basecamp/index.html Using AI to solve a long-standing problem with Garmin’s Basecamp and get my data back Whilst walking on Dartmoor in 2011, thick fog descended and I came fairly close to getting lost. Fortunately, although it was a new area to me, I had a map, some experience and a brain, so I never felt I was truly in trouble. But I did start thinking that there must be a better way to know where I was. When I got home that night, I started researching and soon bought a Garmin Oregon 400. It was a great, rugged GPSr that not only told me where I was, but also recorded a perfect track of where I’d been. This opened up a new hobby for me: geocaching. I got slightly obsessed with it, and over the next decade I ended up walking over 1,200 miles, cycling some 4,607 miles and finding over 8,800 geocaches.