How to Download Free Trail Maps on Garmin GPS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- Download free trail maps for your Gamin GPS. It’s free, fast, and easy. In this video, you get the step-by-step process. I also show you how to add the maps directly to a MicroSD card.
Open Street Map: www.openstreetmap.org/
Download Open Street Map for Garmin: extract.bbbike.org
Garmin: www.garmin.com
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By far one of the best and clearest GPS Map installation videos I have come across!
Many thanks from the UK, I had just paid Garmin £20 for a years subs, and could have had it for free, followed your instructions and brilliant the map I needed was better than the Garmin one, thank you again
Thanks! I almost gave up on trying to get better maps on my Garmin etrek 20! This is the best tutorial I've come across!
Thanks a million for this tutorial. I needed a map for Suriname and really didn't know how to fix this. I got to the Garmin page and it would cost me at least $250,- for a map covering South America. This tutorial is very accurate, simple and fast!! Keep up the good work! 🙂💪
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Thank you! I was about to drop $100 for Gamin's topomaps. This worked perfectly and the maps look great! Couldn't get the SD card file to show up on the Garmin, but it worked after I installed it directly on the Garmin.
Just bought our first Garmin 20X and followed your video for our first map as a trial run. Easy to follow and we are on our way! Thanks!
Great to hear!
After spendind hours trying to upload maps to my 30x I watched your video and had it sorted in 20 mins.
Thanks very much from a geocacher in Western Australia
Wonderful! PS - If you ever find my travel bug that went missing in Australia (it has a rhinoceros attached), let me know. 🙂
This is the best video hands down I found after searching for days. Followed the steps outlined verbatim and got the map onto my etrex, without having to use any software. My etrex had become a paper weight till I saw your video. Now I use it so much. Thank you web cacher !!
Enjoy!
Install was simple and appears to work just fine. Trail riding will tell for sure. Thanks.
Brilliant tutorial mate, worked perfectly on my GPSMap 64x, thank you very much👍
Yours is first video I've seen that explains in simple steps on downloading maps. I downloaded a map of my city and environs and it worked. Thanks.
You are welcome!
I've been using open street maps for years and downloaded several maps for different countries in Europe. Works great.
OMG! What i was looking for !! your contet is to the point, clear, easy to follow. Thank you!
You are most welcome!
thank you very much, this is the best video on how to add maps
Thank you for this excellent guide. Things just got a whole lot simpler.
You're welcome!
Great video, really easy to follow the instructions, cheers
This video was super helpful, I was able to load local trail maps onto my Garmin handheld marine gps.
New Garmin owner. Great video. Very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks! Just bought a used Garmin and great to see there’s an option to get more detailed maps to use. Cheers!
Very useful and easy to follow - thanks!
Great video, worked good just as you describe. Now I'm ready to go caching on vacation!
Finally, GREAT explanation with great related websites. THANK YOU!
Well Done and easy to follow. Used procedure for Etrex 32X and it worked smoothly
Can you tell me what file format you chose from Alltrails to get maps to work on a 32x? I picked " gpx route" but gps still is not seeing it.
very informative video - thx. we were planning on a back country Canoe trip in Canada. I hope it works.
This is excellently done. No shortcuts. Worked for me on first try.
Great news Terry!
Great Video and yes it worked for me on Etrex 30x, many thanks.
I gave this a go and what do you know? It still works in 2023! Great tutorial video - One of the best on Garmin trail maps!
By far the best GPS Map video and tutorial I've found. Very much appreciated. I was looking for a way to get off-road trails onto the Garmin and this works perfectly. I do ADV motorcycle riding and this makes the gps so much more functional. While this doesn't use the openstreets from a download perspective, knowing about it allows me to contribute to the trail mapping if I find myself on trails that aren't currently mapped. Question though, I've noticed that no matter how many of these images I load the GPS can only find one of them, is this a known limitation?
thanks , great video worked on my Garmin etrex 30x easy as . Would a link straight to the extracts page make it easier ?
thank you, it is nice to see there are people who are not driven only by profits.
Aw shucks, you can send me money if you want! 😜
Thank you great video easy to follow and worked brill !!
Thanks Trevor!
This video is really easy to follow! Thanks.
You are welcome! I hope you make good use of it.
Work like a charm! Thanks!
Hi, this is the best instructional video, I just installed some maps onto my garmin using a mac
will be using it for kayaking, hiking and Hunting
Thank you- Thank you
Thanks watching from Cameroon, it's very helpful. I will use it for wildlife surveys.
Thanks for the video. I followed your steps exactly & turned out working great.
That being said, When I tried to do a second file my GPS will not allow me to switch between the 2??? I started with the State of Utah & was Successful. I uploaded the state of Idaho & it works as well. The only way I have found to switch between the maps is to pull one map out of the Garmin File & leave the desired map in the file??? Seems to me like I should be able to switch between the maps on the units...
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Sincerely...
Hi there!! thank you so much for the help!!! Is there any way we can download the maps like in satellite view or something similar? Thank you so much in advance!
Excellent instructional thank you!
WORK'S MINT AS THANKS BRO IM FROM NZ AND IN APRIL 2021 WORKS A CHARM CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH @WebCacher
Thanks. I’m going to try this rn. Going on a hike tmmrw and your video was the most simple and very explanatory one. I’ll let you know how it goes after I download the map.
Good luck!
It was great man. Did my hike yesterday using your skill on the map. 👍
Great news!
Really useful and great ! Thanks so much.
worked flawless for me. thank you
Great news!
Thanks you a lot for this very precious video.
it worked perfectly
Thank you so much
Brilliant! Thank you!
thank you very useful well explained
nice tutorial. thanks Matt.
Thank you!
Really useful. Thanks very much. Trouble is I’ll now have to go and buy a new Garmin.👍
Is that a bad thing? It took some getting used to, but I really love my Garmin GPSmap 64s.
excellent video, clearly explained.
Great video dude! 😎
if you want the Base layer in upper right to be "OSM cyclemap" what option in the left dropdown do you choose to get that baselayer download? Thanks
For the format you choose Garmin Liesure (latin1) which is more of a Road map (or so it appears). I want to download a map for back country hiking. Am I correct that if I download the format Garmin OSM(UTF-8) it would have more topo features that will show elevation grades, hiking trails, etc.?
thanks for sharing will give this ago in the morning . hope they have this for my area of North Wales UK
I hope so too! Wales is so beautiful. Are you near Llangollen?
Llangollen is beautiful I live 11 miles from there in a place called Wrexham
My wife and I were on holiday in the UK in 2013. During that time we stopped in Llangollen. It does look like there are some trail maps in your area. Specifically I'm looking at trails in Llandegla Forest.
@@WebCacher I've looked earlier there are some trail maps in that area there is also some good cache trails around there to . There is one I've got on my list I think it's 44 caches in a 7 mile loop
Really works great! Thanks for the info. One question, if you add the maps directly to a MicroDS card with the device still read them?
Great question! I'm assuming yes, but I've never tried it.
Thanks so much for your help! My dad gave me an old Garmin GPSmap 60CSx that we used for Geocaching when I was a kid. This should help breathe some life into the ol' girl :)
I hope it works!
Hi Sam, I have a Garmin 60CS. Were you able to directly transfer the map file into your Garmin 60CSx or do you have to use the MapSource software to transfer the files into the device?
@@anthonybarrios801 I needed to use Mapsource and make some minor tweaks in order to get it to work
@@GoatmanSam Awesome, thanks for the reply. I'll try to figure it out.
@@anthonybarrios801 on a 60CS or CSx the file needs to be called "gmapsupp.img" and can't have a more descriptive name like in the video.
good morning when I plug in my etrex 10 I see the maps that I down loaded but don't see them etrex sreen on my Garmin . Did I miss a step? Thanks in advance
Well done and very informative
Thank you Neil!
Excellent - Thank you sir...
My pleasure!
Nice. Unfortunately the trails in my area aren't on the Open Street Map... But for future geo-vacations this may come in handy.
Oh no, that's a shame! I have a similar situation in a nearby state forest. Perhaps we can be the ones to add the trails to our respective areas.
thank you very much for this video. I followed all the steps, but map never appeared in Maps-> Information ....not sure what can be the reason
would this work for an Inreach Mini?
Thank you!!
You are welcome!
Are these maps compatible with MapSource? So far I'm not able to open the maps through the MapSource software. I have a Garmin 60CS which is an older model. Please advise.
Hi guys , is there any option to download more terain map , mean diggerent layout ? Thanks
will the download format "Garmin Onroad (latin1) be compatible with the 64st's automotive turn by turn navigation setting?
Great video. I got to the end and enabled the map but now how do I get it to show up on my Garmin 64st?
That's the gps I use. In mine it is in the map options under settings. You can emable and disable map layers. Also, you have to zoom in to a certain point but it works well.
Thanks for the clear explanation, it was very well done. I'm a beginner, so still groping in the dark with the eTrex 22x, and I'm stumped. I defined the map I wanted and extracted it following your instructions, received the email, then connected the eTrex, but NO WINDOW opened (I'm on a Mac). The Micro SD card I had, was bigger than the 32GB limit, so I removed it. Is that why no window opened on the Garmin? Thanks for any help!
I want to use the eTrex in the Minnesota "northwoods" - the lake country on the Canadian border. About to leave for a month in the area, Voyageurs National Park, and Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. In VNP, navigating could be confusing with big lakes, so I decided to get the GPS.
Again, I appreciate the excellent tutorial.
Hello WebCacher, just downloaded the file and was curious and clicked on the gmapsupp file and it said file corrupt. I know I'm supposed to copy it to a folder but was wondering if it is normal for the file to say corrupt if I try and open it? tks
I’m from the uk and got my maps from Talkie toaster for my etrex 35, it has snap to trail route planning and even trails that aren’t shown on ordinance survey maps .
Hey Matt, awesome video. But I'm still having a problem that maybe you have seen. This is the second map site I've tried to download topo maps from and I really like this one far better. But after following the instructions step by step and I can see the maps on my 128gb card from the directory but when going under Map Information, the only maps I see are the default ones that came with the 64s. In fact I see three image files in that directory now and none of them are showing. Thoughts? Thanks!
Greetings Jeff! My apologies for the late response. I've never tried to download Topo Maps, but I've considered it. I have some ideas though. Let's start here. What are you selecting from the dropbox? Garmin OpenTopoMap (latin1)?
thank you
When you're choosing the area you want the map to cover, is there a size limit?
Can you search POI's in the map options of the handheld when you have these maps enabled? Say, a gas station or hospital etc.
I don't think so.
Tried this out yesterday. Works great with a few caveats. Too many polygon points from trying to shape the map? It won't generate so keep it simple. The only other issue seemed to be trying to capture too large of an area causing it to lose details. Thanks for making this nicely done and informative video.
Thank you, Dan!
I only found you on the bike site after I had done the job..but still a great video.
One question that if you fancied making a new video...an explanation of the different Download Formats. The help section is not so great in telling you the differences.. just thought
Cheers
Neil
Do they offer motorcycle trails or just hiking?
Thanks
Fantastic! Thank you for the information, I was starting to get really irritated with the lack of trails on my GPS. Is there a way to import this file into base camp as well?
Thank you for your kind words. I hope you get some use out of your maps. As far as base camp, I'm not sure. Maybe you can try and post the answer here!
Wow, as a mature lady in age, this will be so easy to follow. My Garmin 62st had a major malfunction so I have just received my Garmin 64sx. I kept my old sd card which has Ordnance Survey maps on it, I live in the UK. Will I be able to load these free trail maps onto the same sd card, I don't want to corrupt what is already there. Thank you so much for this video.
You are welcome Susan. I hope it works for you!
when I download and unzip, I see no "disc Image file" as in your example.
I didn't see that either
This works for the first try, but when I try to upload another map it doesn't show up on the map settings section at all. I tried this multiple times, downloading from the very beginning
All went well except the final "gmappsup.img" in the zip file was corrupt and I cannot download it. So I'm stuck.
Every time I download the map file it’s only 46kb and it says corrupted when I try to open it
I got a message saying the disc file was corrupted. Any way i can fix this?
How do you load the maps using a Mac? When I received the file from bbbike, the folder did not contain a disc image file. only an image file. (gmapsupp.img) When I attempt to load it into the Basecamp map folder it will not accept it. MapInstall and Map manager also will not accept it. Any suggestions?
Greetings Moon Joyce! My apologies for not responding sooner. I have never owned a Mac, so I'm not very familiar. I have some random troubleshooting ideas, though:
1. You should not need to use Basecamp, MapInstall, or Map Manager to use this method.
2. When you selected the map at bbbike.org, did you select Garming Leisure (latin1) from the dropbox?
If neither of these work, perhaps someone who uses a mac will provide some guidance.
Same problem. .img is for GPS, but Mac users need .gmapi file for install this map to BaseCamp. Anybody knows how to solve this problem?
I have a 67i, when I attempt to move the gmap file to either the internal or sb on the device, it will not accept it. When I drag and try to drop it in, it displays a red "not allowed" circle with slash. The Garmin already has the files you created in the video (the "Garmin" file). I tried to create new folders but it will not give me the option. Any Help?
I actually think I got it figured out. I removed the SD card and inserted it to the computer directly, downloaded the map. After re-installing the SD card into the GPS it shows as if it is downloaded.
Will this show your position on the map or is the map just for reference? Would be great if it shows your progress along the trails
Yes. The Garmin hiking GPS' will tell you where you are on a trail. Additionally, most of them have a "digital breadcrumbs" to see where you have been.
@@WebCacher nice! Was on the fence trying to decide if a GPS unit was worth it. Northern Ontario and Quebec maps usually don't show trails
why can't I insert more areas into the garmin, only one area allowed me?
I travel all over the country searching for the best trails around. Do you know how much memory it will take to download the whole United states?
I'm not certain.
thank you for your guide. I am having issues with one of the steps. When I open the downloaded file of the map I don't see any file called gmaps or any file that is a disk image file. What am I doing wrong?
Some have had an issue because they were using a Mac (Apple) computer. Are you using Mac or PC?
@@WebCacher I am using a PC
@@TheIlana123 Hi again Ilana. Is the map you downloaded from extract.bbbike.org ? Also, did you choose "Garmin Leisure (latin1)" as your format type from the top left?
@@saintmatthew956 Thank you! I was able to extract the right file. I am now stuck on the very last step when I go to setup --> map i don't see anything named map information. I only have options of: orientation, data fields, advanced map setup and marine colors.
I have a Montana and everything works as described but I cannot get the transferred map to appear on my screen. When I go to setup, the map is enabled. Do I need to choose a different format? I am assuming that my map will apperar on my screen as a normal part of my view; is this assumption correct?
Correct, but sometime you have to zoom in closer for the maps to appear. What year is the device and are you sure you picked the correct format?
@@WebCacher It's a Garmin Montana 600, so about 6 to 8 years old. I used Garmin Leisure (latin1). The maps installed are a .JNX format. When I going into the Map Information, the map is "Enabled - Tannehill fzk/latin1 BBBike.org 27-Apr-2021". Tannehill is the name I gave it. I zoomed way in and still no map.
I managed to download maps but cannot figure how to access them on my GPS (GPSMAP 64SX). Any ideas as I'm getting ready to drive over this thing in my car!!!
In most models, there's some option in the settings that allows you to toggle the maps on and off.
Are these maps better than the ones on GMap Tool.
I have no idea.
I followed your instructions which are the same as everyone else and the map is not available when I am using my GPSMap64s. I have tried putting it on the SD card and in the Garmin memory in the Garmin folder in both cases. It has never worked. Some success with Basecamp but only about 10% of the time.
I'm sorry to hear that. I myself own a GPSMap64s and have not had any problems using this method. I hope you find some method that works for you!
OMG, my head is spinning. I will have to watch this video 4 or 5 times, but thanks for making it.
I tried to make it step by step. Hope it works!
Hello , I have a Garmin GPS 64st. I did the download as directed. I am unable to find the map on my GPS. any advice??? after not hearing anything. I contacted Garmin, OPEN street is not compatible.
It is possible that they made new models not compatible but it certainly works with mine.
Will this work for a satmap?
I don't know. Sorry.
I have followed your steps. The files are on my micro SD card in my Garmin. I do not see them on my GPS unit and the file name I chose are not to be seen under Setup -> Map -> Information. Any suggestions?
Nevermind, got it!
Does it work now? Did you figure out what was wrong?
Tried several times but always comes up saying the disc image is corrupted. Can you explain?
Followed instructions to the T. Does not work on my eTrex 20X. Map loads, but the tools are all blanked out. Any ideas where I am going wrong?
Not really. Unfortunately the eTrex is the only Garmin I've never used. What are the tools that are blanked out?
@@WebCacher Sorry, the tools in Garmin BaseCamp. So I cannot organise routes.
I've never used BaseCamp, and I don't think the free maps were ever meant to work with it. Sorry. Can you see the maps on the GPS though?