Free user-generated U.S. And international maps UPDATE: Here’s a on your Garmin GPS. This was originally intended as a follow up to my post. Yet those sticking closer to home should investigate this too — the sources below include road maps of U.S.
Cities and some very nice topo maps of greater detail than you can find elsewhere. The image below is from a.
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Besides being free, these maps are often available for areas not covered by Garmin and other commercial providers. Unfortunately though, turn-by-turn routing is less likely to be found with these maps. One other thing before we get to sources of these maps — they utilize the Garmin.img format, and will require some special techniques for loading them to your unit. More on that. Sources of free maps for your Garmin GPS Here are the best places to start looking for these maps: • – Undoubtedly the most comprehensive source of user-generated maps for Garmin GPS receivers. The screen shots at the top of this post and below show maps of Sydney, Australia that I downloaded and transferred to my nuvi.
• – Another comprehensive list. Specifc areas: • Australia – • Canada – • Caribbean – This site also has maps of Japan, Bermuda and Antarctica • China – • Greece – • • New Zealand – • South America – in the works. Turn by turn routing too. Xvid Playing Psp S On Ps3 more. Topo maps – 40 foot contour interval maps of and Thanks to for several of the above sources. OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is “a free editable map of the whole world.” They aren’t quite there yet, but they are making progress. • Here’s a how to on how to convert data to Garmin compatible maps. • OpenStreetMaps that have to Garmin format.
Tips for searching for free international maps When searching for international maps, try using the country name + “.img” + “Garmin” + “maps”. Loading user-generated maps using IMG2GPS There are many ways to skin a cat and likewise, there are many ways to load these custom maps to your Garmin GPS.
This gets to be a complicated subject and I will only go through one method here. Music Youtube Mp3 Converter. This technique allows you to upload multiple maps using, so called because it transfers the Garmin-compatible.img map files to your GPS. Here are the steps I followed • If you have pre-installed maps on your GPS, make a copy to back them up. I have a nuvi 660 and I simply copied the nuvi’s “Garmin” folder to my hard drive.
While I did not have any problems with this process replacing the pre-loaded maps in my nuvi, it is still a highly advised safety precaution. • Using one of the sources above, download the.img map files you want to send to your GPS. • Download and install. • Run IMG2GPS.
I could not get a direct upload to work with my nuvi, so I used IMG2GPS to create a file and then copied that to the “Garmin” folder on my nuvi. To do this select “Folder/Card” and “Create File instead of Upload” as shown below.
Then click “Load Folder” and select the.img map files you wish to transfer. Finally, click “Create File.” A window will briefly appear on your screen as IMG2GPS compiles a GMAPSUP.IMG file. You will be prompted for a destination directory for the file. • Copy the GMAPSUP.IMG file and the.img map files to your GPS (I sent mine to the “Garmin” directory on my nuvi).
• You should now be able to zoom in and see the detailed maps of areas you transferred to your device. Finding other GPS data If you’re just looking for waypoints and tracks, you might want to check out my. Related post: •. Rich, it is getting worse I installed the morocco.poi.gpx.zip file and extracted it directly into the the POI folder in the main Garmin folder. Now my device doesn’t start at all, I even can’t access any more its contents when connected to the PC since it doesn’t start too!!! All what I see (when pressing on) is the “GARMIN” logo then it turns off after trying unsuccessfully with “loading the map”!!! I tried many times in vain!