Garmin which maps

Sites are listed by continent, then by country alphabetically, then by suspected usefulness eg. Maps offered worldwide or for a continent are often offering country downloads - hence they are only listed once and not for each region again. As OpenStreetMap is changing fast - only maps updated during the last 6 month should be listed.

Permanently Dead links - please remove the entry. Maps are offered in different formats. As gmapsupp. To use gmapsupp. For the MapSource installer, that allows you to use these maps with Garmin's Windows software, see Garmin Mapsource installer. From OpenStreetMap Wiki. Purge Help. Other languages Translate. Hidden category: Pages unavailable in Japanese.

Navigation menu Personal tools English Create account Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history. Add links. Routing Known issues. Development i18n Build your own.

Mountainbike and hiking focussed. Autorouting with preference for trails and offroad ways, using amongst others mtb:scale :uphill incline and class:bicycle for route calculation. Aims to display any outdoor related features and ways. Road and Trekking bike focussed. Autorouting with preference for quiet streets, cycleways, cycleroutes and tertiarys outside cities. Aims to display any bicycle related features and ways.

Europe completely, e. Routable with a lot of details. With some modifications of the look and feel of User:Computerteddys map style. Suitable for universal use. Selectable areas. Additional layers offered respectively for contours, cycleways, marine mapping, hiking trails and public transport. Offers additionally a single street map of entire Europe plus extra layers. From here are generalized manually by Gpsmapedit to reduce size and generate new maps for Garmin and Navitel.

Map download only after registration. Only against payment or providing input to Trailforks closed source database. Mountain bike trail maps with a custom OSM basemap for mountain biking. Includes mountain biking POI's and local bike shop locations. Selectable downloads by state or country.

Created using mkgmap by ValentinAK. Based on geofabrik. Maps of Russia and some other Countries available in Russian or English.

Other maps with english langauge. Created using osm2mp and cgpsmapper. Also included intermediate. Created using cgpsmapper and mkgmap. Generated by Ben Konrath using mkgmap. Make sure you enable Javascript and upgrade to the latest browser version to view HikingGuy correctly. And in most cases, the free maps are much better than the expensive Garmin maps. In retrospect, I think the price for Garmin maps is too high. There are some as good, or better, alternatives available at no cost online.

This product is overpriced for what it is. I would recommend other software. So let me start by saying there are a lot of ways to get free Garmin GPS maps, and a lot of different methods to install them.

You could create whole websites devoted to the subject, and people have see below. You can also create your own highly-customized maps and download them to your Garmin device. OpenStreetMaps are the Wikipedia of maps. The public contributes to, confirms, and edits the data on the map. This curation goes for hiking trails too. The maps are regularly updated, and over the last few years have seemed the most accurate in my experience.

You can even become a contributor if you like. First off, the Garmin unit you have might have maps already. Then pick the region you want, and download the appropriate map package link way at the bottom of the page. The files are pretty big. The download might take a while. The instructions are different for Mac and PC. The map website has a link for installation instructions, click on that. My instructions cover the installation on a Mac, but I have some general that fill in the gaps for installing on Windows below.