![]() control click on the application to open first time (mac security requires you to do this - will open normal subsequent launches).ġ2. this will also keep you from having complications from duplicate file names, as all files coming from will be called "OSM generic routable".ġ1. using javawa GMTK, rename to whatever you would like (in my case, South America OSM). now the new map will show in garmin map manager and is installed in basecamp as "OSM generic routable", the default file name.ġ0. make sure it's an old one though! or just don't do anything. while garmin map manager is open, you can delete any old map versions or duplicates that might be there. it will open garmin map install, say yes to install prompts.Ĩ. double-click on this file to run the install. once at the server, you will see many file types to choose from, download to your desktop osm_generic_macosx.zip (this is the map installer for base camp for mac users).ħ. if you make a custom map, will ask for you email and send you a download link for the large maps that you create.Ħ. (or enable "manual tile selection" to create your own regional/continental map - i made a map for all of southamerica)ĥ. go to and choose the country map you would like to download - and download right there. ![]() (possibly the same guy as the open street project? not sure.)Ĥ. go to download and install JaVaWa GMTK, JaVaWa device manager from this nice dutch guy. download and install the additional garmin programs: garmin map install & garmin map manager, garmin POI loader (more about POI loader in a subsequent post.)ģ. install latest zumo firmware and latest version of basecamp.Ģ. it shouldn't be this hard to do this, but it was.Īnd let's not forget to thank garmin for making it so freaking nearly impossible that it takes: 4 garmin applications, 2 open source applications, two pretty smart guys about 20 email exchanges and a 3-hour video chat, and one really freaking awesome dutch geek-god to make these open source maps and applications available so you can install them. thank you to jeff smith, who spent 3 hours with me on video conference this morning helping me figure all this out. it may be different with other garmin devices, as they are not all designed/programmed alike. In this post, i'm going to give a summary of what one needs to do in order to load 3rd party open source maps from into a garmin zumo 660. and the alternative to means loading maps by country, often on PC/windows only platforms that suck the life out of your soul. garmin's south american maps are useless by almost all accounts online. awesome, almost to the point of wondering how garmin is going to adjust their business model to adapt to the inevitability of this content being better than their own. so donate after you realize how awesome these maps are like i did. from what i can tell, it's a dutch programmer who is doing it for donations. The open source mapping from is excellent. and basecamp, garmin's apple/mac friendly desktop user-interface, is far from being plug n' play. Garmin customer tech support, not surprisingly, is not in the business of giving 110% when it comes to you loading 3rd party maps that cost $00.00 on their devices. I just don't want to see incorrect information stand about this or any other application or hardware.Firstly, i will say that in the year of planning, research, and to-do lists for my south america trip - the task of learning and installing a good south american map set onto my garmin zumo 660 was the most frustrating, feared, procrastinated, and unpleasant of anything else i have done or attempted to do. So this is NOT a limitation of MacGPSPro.ĭisclaimer: I have no interest in MacGPSPro except for being a satisfied user for many years. However you cannot up- or down-load maps themselves to a GPS from MacGPSPro, anymore than you can upload and display Nat Geo maps on, for example, a Garmin. However, there are very good sources for free maps in Garmin format. Each GPS device company has its own file format so it can make money off the captive audience that has invested in its hardware. You can record real-time tracklogs directly into MacGPSPro or record them on a separate GPS and download and display them in MacGPSPro. ![]() MacGPSPro uses USGS 1:24k Topo maps which are geo-referenced into ".PICT" files. ![]() I have run my Mac+MacGPSPro with input from a Bluetooth GPS for many years it handles this seamlessly. There is no problem transferring files from a Mac to a GPS and from a GPS to the Mac. Click to expand.I don't want to be argumentative, but I have used MacGPSPro extensively for the last 8-10 years, including driving to Panama, all over Baja, all over the western US and both the Yukon and NWT in Canada.
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