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I've read that Birdseye images are not of the highest resolution, not as good as Google Earth at maximum resolution.

I'll look into your non-advice and see what I can find out. 

I understand what you are saying.  I'm not a Garmin fan in the least, but they basically ARE the market for handhelds.  Phones are not as reliable, from my experience, deep in the backcountry, or perhaps I haven't found the best app and/or way to use my phone in such situations.  There is one app I use on my phone called "Offline Maps" which allows me to download and save (at whatever resolution I want) satellite maps from a variety of sources, though the Bing satellite maps are the best alternative to Earth (and in some cases better).  Still, I'm much more comfortable using my dedicated GPS device, as several times I've literally needed it to find my way out of a sticky situation.  Honestly, adding satellite imagery to the Garmin was kind of a novelty, and I'm satisfied with the results I've gotten using that awkward and cumbersome method in GE.  I'll probably continue to create small scale image overlays in this manner, simply because I've learned how to do it.  I didn't want to make this some difficult and time consuming task, like you said, it's 2017, and you'd *think* it would be a very straight forward process. 

thanks again for your help!

Thank you, I'll check it out.

Question though.  Are other free maps directly "uploadable" to handhelds?  Because if I still have to go through the same process as before, it kind of negates the benefit. 

I have tried searching this, and came up with one other post on this topic, but it was on another site, and I wasn't 100% sure of the answer given.  I understand how to use Google Earth to create custom maps, based on numerous YT videos, as well as Garmin's own instructions.  So, my question is there a simple way to take a snapshot of a Google Earth satellite image, and upload that directly to Basecamp or a Garmin unit?  What it seems like you have to do now is take a screenshot of the area you want, then save that as a JPG, then add it back into GE again as an image overlay.  Seems redundant, and it's very hard to get the image precisely in the correct location.  It just seems like there is an extra step that if I could remove, would make adding a snapshot satellite image much simpler.  Basically, is this possible?

Sorry for bringing up the zombie thread, but I did a search on this topic because I too was having problems with Basecamp "seeing" maps which I downloaded from this site.  Like the OP, in order to fix the problem, I had to download the maps into the c:\garmin folder.  When you first open up the installer for the maps I downloaded, it wants to put the maps into c:\Programs (x86) folder, which didn't make much sense anyway, as the files are just .img files.  How would Basecamp even know to look in this folder? 

In any case, if you extract the img files within the .exe into c:\garmin folder then the maps are viewable by Basecamp.  Just my experience...