How to download garmin free map without sd card

How do you install the maps? Author Alee Denham. Along the way, he creates technical resources, in-depth reviews, inspirational videos, how-to guides and more. If you've learned something from him, you can support his mission to create the best bike travel content HERE. Related Posts. Gear Travel Gear. Should You Buy The…. Download Garmin Training Center Software from garmin. Disqus Comments. 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. 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. I got help doing this from a YouTube video after searching for adding languages to a Garmin. Thursday , 25 November Two people, two Suzuki DR motorcycles, and the spirit of a dog named Ducati have completed a trip around the world. Share :. Useful phone applications. Navigation on the road. Related Posts. Are the ones you mention more precise? It looks you are saying no in terms of rendering so really I was wondering.

The current implementation is horrible. No contour lines, missing road names for secondary and fire roads, blocky trails. Just terrible. Looking at connect. The maps on the edge device actually look better than the maps in Connect! And while neither have contour lines in Connect, openstreetmap. Contours come from other sources and have to be merged into the data from OSM to create a map with them both in. Or you could create a separate contour map and display it at the same time as the normal map to see them when looking at the map display.

OSM most certainly does have elevation. Take a look at the OSM version… link to openstreetmap. Aligator Lizard, and Bunny. I have edited the maps to fix issues I have spotted and when you edit the map you can see it definitely does not contain any elevation data.

The cycle layer you see on the openstreetmap website is actually created by opencyclemap. Opencyclemap uses OSM map data for the roads etc. It takes a few days for edits to OSM to appear on opencyclemap as it is only updated every few days as well. So connect is behind devices for some reason. And my primary issue remains. The OSM maps on connect look like ass. The google maps layer may be fine for road rides, but it sucks ass for mtb trails and we have to rely on the OSM option.

Unfortunately the connect integration is terrible and absolutely needs to be addressed. Also the too, but I figured they were older so decided to clip it there. But good idea to include the older ones too. Well, yes, the will accept a micro-SD card too. Great writeup Ray. Just wondering how I can tell what maps I have on my device currently, and where these end?

This handy link shows which maps are what: link to garmin. Any ideas? Did you remove the older maps, or they still there? To me that sounds like something is going wrong with the existing Garmin maps. Yes, I have reinstalled base map via Garmin software and added new maps. That was my first thought. Thanks for this. I have an Edge , are we still receiving map updates, or should I use this method to update maps?

I would continue to use the Garmin maps. The main reason to use this is if you travel outside the region you have maps for. I just checked, and the map on my is Garmin Cycle Map I prefer this maps over the Garmin maps even where the detailed Garmin map is installed.

I very seldom use routing, but quite often I use the map during bike rides to make spontaneous decisions where to go next. In this maps here 1 you can see if a road is paved or unpaved and get proper information of which quality the unpaved road is. If I want to download a base map to my PC and then map rides on the PC and then transfer these to my Garmin, which of the four possible destinations listed early in the article do I select.

Anyone has recommendations for free Garmin maps for automobiles. Ray had suggested to use the offline Google option and use with the phone but when I tried, it appears as if it is for point to point direction.

It also takes a lot of memory in my iphone. Any suggestions? Meredith, Thank you for your reply. Which one specifically from the list below and have you tried it? Hi DC, I have a hand me down Edge which I am trying to update the very old map, it does not have any maps in the Garmin folder of the built in memory, just one. I suspect you might not be looking in the right place. There should definitely be a Garmin folder, even on the older Edge Do you see both? And if so — do you see a Garmin folder in either?

This will work on a Garmin etrex? Later side loading maps for Japan and parts of Europe, to do the same sort of thing there. Hi Ray, are you sure that if you download parts of for instance The Netherlands that you get the second mail in 15 mnutes as I was using via your six year old post this Open Maps last June but I was the user to wait in the queu…. Routing through connect sucks ass for mtb trails. Trying to do it via connect on a phone is even worse.

Same goes for MTB. In particular, I looked for a trail that I hiked a couple of months ago to retrieve the keys that dropped out of my Camelbak during a stop on an MTB ride.

What Paul S said. The big issue is Garmin Connect when creating routes ahead of time. Recently did a mtb race in Oregon and I wanted that route loaded so I could see the climbs that were coming up. Interestingly enough, once I sorted it out and loaded it on the Edge , it DID show the fireroad names while navigating. OSM cycle map for the same area… link to openstreetmap. Missing trails, no contours, super blocky. In effect, for mtb riding, you almost need to know the trails before you can create a route in Garmin Connect.

Thanks for this tutorial. Works also fine for Garmin Etrex devices such as the 30X. Have an Edge All of this is on a microSD card. I have the same problem. Got hands on a used Edge Want contourlines just go to: link to openmtbmap. If this is explained in the post, and I missed this idea or if one of the comments already covered this issue, sorry.

Does the downloaded map data provide elevation details that the Garmin head unit would need to populate the elevation data screen while following a course on a downloaded map? Ray, I bike tour unsupported all over the world. I have had the Garmin , , and now the for 3 years. He had nothing but problems with turn by turn navigation as well as vast differences between what my Garmin was telling me for distance to go to a city, etc.

The navigation errors he had using OSM maps were quite bad, such that he shut his Garmin off and we used mine. I have talked with others who had similar problems with OSM maps downloaded. I love the Garmin SD map cards, expensive but for me, worth every penny. DC, my question is about the SD card. Open Street Map question!! So here is where I am currently. I created a test map of part of Ohio and Pennsylvania. I got the email that it is ready and will be available for 96 hours. So I am fuzzy on the next step even after reading DC Rainmaker.

Can I insert my micro SD card into my computer and download the map to it? Or do I put the blank micro SD card in the Garmin and download to that? Your help will be greatly appreciated!!! Installed the map of Morocco from the link and yes it is better than the no good world map pre-installed in Garmin Edge. But not that much.

Go to: link to openmtbmap. You can even get it in local arabic language or in English. Not impressed with the maps from link to garmin. Maybe you are looking for a topo map no? I guess maps from garmin. For topo maps there are more alternatives and more detailed: link to wiki. I find this ones nice, for topographic maps: link to frikart. Would this be rectified if I downloaded from velomap.

Thanks for your tutorial. Do you have a solution? It will say what area it is. May the unit you bought only had the US maps. I would go back to the shop and have them explain. I try to contact Garmin support to know the method to fix this issue. As always a great a detailed article with relevant content. I have only an Edge but decided to try it out with a super small piece of map from Austria. File size 7,1 Mb. I created and downloaded the. Then I tried to install the. As expected the disc space was not sufficient.

So I decided to move the two pre-installed. In theory, this should free space up for a small 7,1 Mb file. Unfortunately this did not happen. I still miss 6,4 Mb to install the downloaded map. I cannot move the two pre-installed. So I basically lost the ability to use my pre-installed maps.

Can you give some advise on how to restore the Edge storage capability? At least so I can get the original pre-installed maps back onto my device.

Thanks in advance. How did you remove the files from your ? On a Mac? If so, dragging to the Trash does not remove the files, just puts them in a hidden directory. Something similar might have to be done on Windows. Having problems with a Garmin — some with the updated core maps, some with these OpenStreetMaps. Update required adding an SD card, which I did.

Maps are basically blank, only major roads shown at low zoom levels — useless. Reinstalled maps from Garmin Express, same same. Tried downloading these OpenStreetMap gmapsupp. Hi community, Is anyone having issues with the watts being displayed on the Edge ? I recently updated the firmware to 7.

I rode two different bikes with two different power meters both Stages with latest firmware and they both are showing upwards of watts which is not realistic for me. I already did a user resetting and a data resetting basically a master reset on the unit but the problem persist.

I changed it anyways but the problem persists. Thank you. To me though, Garmin is still missing the boat here. These should be easily done via nothing more than just the Garmin Connect Mobile app and WiFi kinda like downloading music works. Pay, and be done. Is there a way to make this swap to European maps without having to pay extra money?

However, Garmin now has on their site the ability to pay about 20EUR to get the maps for the region you want. The name is Jose Tiu. I never used this name. I search in Garmin forum but nothing. I contact garmin France. The only solution is to do a change with the shop. The issue is that if you have maps in only in.

MapInstall will only transpile maps onto a Garmin device or an SD card. In the case of an SD card, it works best if there is a GarminDevice. My first quick and dirty solution was to copy the. Then I can copy the. You can rename and unmount it like any other disk. Inside the root of your virtual SD, create a folder Garmin. Inside of Garmin create a GarminDevice.

You can get the GarminDevice. One other note is that a bunch of the font colors in MapInstall 4. Why Garmin enabled Dark Mode but did not set the font colors correctly is baffling. Thanks for the instructions.

Mine works now. Try moving the gmapbmap. Mine works fine now. Has any one else been able to resolve this? I just tried it with my new Garmin , and it works well. I did use a map from link to wandrer.

It worked great, and it was fantastic to be able to follow all of those red lines to pick up more Wandrer points! Stephen — Have you figured out how to update your maps from wandrer onto your Garmin so that it updates your unridden roads? I have a base head unit and there seems to be less and less storage available for these maps.

I deleted my activity files freeing up very little space and moved the. What other files ought I thin out to free up space? I only have 2 courses loaded right now. Not sure if you saw, but my older post covers the Edge a bit better since that was space constrained : link to dcrainmaker. I have Strava Live segments so do I need to un-star segments in Strava to remove them in a sync or can I remove manually from I assume the segments folder?

I doubt I have lots of structured workouts but I may have a legacy self generated one for an IRL race training session that had very complex data profile so could be a large file. Will check when I get home. Thanks again. That freed the space up okay but having installed the map per instructions…no map evident. Tried BBBike as the primary link appears not to be loading maps right now , loaded the file into the , even restarted the Hmm, will have to sleep on it.

Fresh eyes at it tomorrow. I have a Garmin edge and want to find an alternative solution and followed the link to BBB. Also I heard that there is a possibility the BBBike. Do you know if this is the case and if there is a way around this? I went there when the primary site appeared to be down. I tried both formats and saw no big differences. I would remind you to rename the new map to gmapbmap and I had to move the gmapbmap. Hope this helps. Sharing for those that may also have issues: when using the bbbike.

I have a couple of issues with map loading on an Garmin Edge I have not seen any anomalies, but I am unable to display a map or a location in Mallorca on the device from here. This is a little disquieting because b I have been unable to reach the linked map source and have had to use the alternate BBBike extracts , which I have no prior experience with.

Thanks for the great post. Has something gone wrong here? The other link you provide in the article to the other service does still work, and provides the right file. I have been trying to follow these instructions to download maps on my Garmin Edge Plus that I purchased in the US but am currently in Singapore.

Frustratingly, nothing seems to work. I get to each stage and even saved the gmapsupp file to my Garmin device. After a lot of trials and errors I have finally managed to install the maps for Singapore.