GPSFileDepot Home Page – Free GPS Topo Maps for Garmin GPS Receivers If you own a Garmin GPS receiver, you can save yourself a chunk of change by downloading and installing the free user contributed maps available at which has an excellent collection of US topographic maps, as well as maps from all over the world. The site also provides an excellent set of tutorials that describe how to load their maps onto a Garmin GPS device as well as advanced tutorials on how to make your own GPS maps, which you can redistribute. I got turned onto by my bushwhacking buddy Kris, because the repository has maps that contain unpaved forest service and abandoned logging roads that aren’t drawn on the commercial GPS maps available for the region we hike in. I’m also a frugal hiker and would rather not pay for commercial GPS maps. Despite being user contributed and free, the quality of the GPSFileDepot topographic and transparent maps we use is outstanding. The maps are all reviewed and rated by an editor so you won’t waste your time loading less complete maps. Free New Hampshire Topographic Map available from GPSFileDepot.com loaded into Garmin Basecamp Here are the three maps I use on my and in Garmin Basecamp, Garmin’s desktop route planning tool: • • Data Sets included: • Transportation – Census TIGER (2010 Nov.- 2011 Feb) – enhanced • Hydrology – USGS NHD (2010 Sep) • Contours – 20ft – created from USGS 1/3 arc sec (about 10m point spacing) NED (2011 Feb) • POI’s – USGS GNIS (2011 Feb) – enhanced.

• • • • • • • Some Basics about sending maps to your GPS device ATTENTION - Basecamp 4.7.0 (or better MapInstall 4.2.0) is partly broken. Best downgrade (or even better never upgrade to 4.7.0) to Basecamp 4.6.2 - see also here: There are a few possibilities to send maps to your GPS Device. As I assume you are using Garmin Basecamp - the easiest is to just send them from Garmin Basecamp. And fastest way of sending is always to the microSD card - in a cardreader - because most Garmin devices devices don't have fast USB chips. Alternatively for Windows users only - you could scroll down to the explications how to send maps with Mapsource - this has the advantage of having a full screen map selection possibility - while the Mapinstall windows to select the tiles is a bit small.

Oct 22, 2018 - Maps & Geospatial: Global Positioning Systems (GPS). This guide provides a. Garmin Owner's Manual downloadable in pdf format. Includes an introduction to. Garmin Basecamp instructions for downloading BirdsEye products. GPS tips for. Install Topo Maps by the Download option.

Otherwise there are no advantages. For Linux Users - the easiest is to send maps using Qlandkarte GT - please read the Qlandkarte GT tutorial for that. Amharic bible pdf. Last you could generate the gmapsupp.img with mkgmap - then put it on your microSD - there is another tutorial for this, but it's a bit more complicated (only advantage is that it's a bit faster). Please note - you cannot install the maps on the microSD. You always first install the maps to your PC/Mac - then send them - or send a selection of the map.

Also note - the maximum number of map tiles your device can read in is around 2000 or 4000 map tiles - so if you install more - some maps simply will not be read in. So as general advice - only send those maps to your device - which you will likely need in near future. (I try to make the map tiles as big as possible - around 13MB average per tile - but other maps - especially older Garmin maps may have tiles of only 1MB) Differences between old and new generation Garmin GPS Devices: new generation GPS devices (Oregon, Dakota, Colorado, etrex 20/30, GPS Maps 62 or 64 series, edge 800/1000.) All maps sent at once will appear as one map on your map selection setup on the GPS device. If you want to be able to switch maps on/off separately, then send them once, and rename the GMAPSUPP.IMG into anything else (well the.IMG needs to stay) - but don't use Umlauts, special symbols or spaces in the name. Then just sent the next map. This makes it very easy to manage your maps. You can simply export map by map and rename it.