There’s a few places on the internet that offer FREE (as in beer) user generated maps for Garmin GPS owners. Of course nothing replaces a comprehensive map database but if you’re planning on traveling to foreign lands check out these maps to see if they’ll get you around to where you want to go - [...]
There’s a few places on the internet that offer FREE (as in beer) user generated maps for Garmin GPS owners. Of course nothing replaces a comprehensive map database but if you’re planning on traveling to foreign lands check out these maps to see if they’ll get you around to where you want to go - it might save you a few bucks in buying a whole map disc that you might not even use.
First here’s a couple of sites with a lot of maps:
Map Center
Free Garmin GPS Maps
Here’s some more sites with specific location maps.
Australia - Tracks for Australia
Canada - Canadian ‘eh’ Topo Maps
Caribbean - This maps site has maps of Japan, Bermuda and Antarctica too.
China - Yunnan Explorer
Greece - Greece GPS Maps
Morocco - Maps of Morocco
New Zealand - The New Zealand Open GPS project
South America - Argentina and Uruguay with some more countries on the way.
If you don’t have it already you’ll need a utility to help you get your .img files to your Garmin GPS you can download Img2GPS to help you along with that.
Don’t forget that a lot of these projects are all driven by public contribution, if you think you can help the project in some way don’t be too shy to send them an inquiry.
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Thanks for the information about free maps. I just got a Garmin Gps navigator from Best Buy. This is very useful for me.
I found this navigator post interesting. I’m looking forward to what you post next.