#DOWNLOAD FREE GARMIN GPS MAPS FREE SOURCE LICENSE#
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Australia is renowned worldwide for its vast tracks and ancient landscape, something that many Australians find they need to be part of by getting in a 4WD, Bike, walking or Caravaning and visiting. One of such productive uses of OpenStreetMap data are free maps for Garmin GPS devices as is the case of this website. Not often you find free maps but a very smart guy nicknamed Shonky Logic decided to create maps that Garmin havent considered for Australia. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have severe legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. Also you can swap the card and insert into Garmin models.OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. img files on a SD card, you can rename them making it easier to manage. You can drop the file in the Garmin folder on the device, but there are limitation and you’ll have to rename your file gmapsupp.imgīy placing your. Installing maps on our device is straight forward, take the img files and frop them into a folder named “Garmin” on your SD card. This is a free service that compiles garmin maps from Depending on your area, the detail might be lacking, however being an open source project, anybody including yourself can contribute to the map in a few clicks. Meaning that you can zoom in tight and not have pixel distortion like the Garmin Custom Map or Birdseye Topo.Īnother Free option which is to use the Garmin Openstreetmap ( ). The advantage is that these are vector maps and will behave like the Garmin products like City Navigator or Garmin Topo. If you are in Canada, there is the Ibycus Topo product, where the same government data source was used to grab the GIS (shapefiles) data instead of the raster images and produced Garmin maps using free tools. Depending on your area this might be a useful resource. A number of sites like and others will have repositories with submitted maps. The other free option is to simply search for “Free Garmin Maps”. The disadvantage is that Custom Maps are picky and you might have to tweak your KML file to get the results that you want.
In our example, we’ve used the same data source to grab the latest published topo maps, cut a slice and made the KML file to import into Basecamp
Luckily, there is an easier & free method to get the same type of map.įree Maps: Making a Garmin Custom Map using Google Earth is a good option which can take a few minutes to build. Also depending on your area, you may have low-res satellite images.īirdseye Topo is much more useful for hiking, but the main disadvantage is not knowing how old these maps are based on your area. However for hiking, topo images may be a better option than the satellie simply because they do not provide the detail we’d want. Loading these maps onto your device is fairly easy via Basecamp Paid Maps: You can go and buy the various mapping products from Garmin, including the subscription service called Birdseye Imagery where you can choose between satellite or topo images. However, Bluechart G2 Vision only works in combination with marine devices. NT maps with lane assist guides and traffic information only work on Garmin nvi devices, whereas the very detailed and colourful topographic maps are meant for use in outdoor devices. We dive into the kind of maps you can load onto your Garmin GPS device and Basecamp. New maps are only compatible with the device for the respective target group.
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