pabloescaban
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Has anyone used this?
I have a Garmin satnav, UK and Ireland, which covers quite a chunk of Northern France.
This time i'm going a bit further South and the location isn't on my satnav.
After inquiring with Garmin, it appears I can purchase France map for $99.
This ain't happening so I googled free satnav maps and came across openmapchest and a few other sites where open maps can be downloaded and used on Garmin and other devices.
This is legal, there's nothing dodgy about it, they're maps put together by the public.
I didn't want 'W Europe' because it includes Estonia, Malta, Poland and a dozen other countries I'm never going to visit, to cut a long story short, I found separate maps on one of the sites and downloaded France, put it in (on a SD card) and it looks like it works, but it looks like it's missing some details, a few villages near where I'm going appear on google maps but no sign of them on the satnav streetmap.
If you download Australia, W Europe etc you can't put these whole maps on the SD card as they're too big and they need to be 'tiled' - that is, you open them on your PC, and choose the 'tiles' (large parts of countries) into one map and then these are used to make your desired map for the satnav.
I'm wondering if I DL the whole W Europe thing and create my own would it likely be the same as the one I already have or not?
Has anyone used them?
I have a Garmin satnav, UK and Ireland, which covers quite a chunk of Northern France.
This time i'm going a bit further South and the location isn't on my satnav.
After inquiring with Garmin, it appears I can purchase France map for $99.
This ain't happening so I googled free satnav maps and came across openmapchest and a few other sites where open maps can be downloaded and used on Garmin and other devices.
This is legal, there's nothing dodgy about it, they're maps put together by the public.
I didn't want 'W Europe' because it includes Estonia, Malta, Poland and a dozen other countries I'm never going to visit, to cut a long story short, I found separate maps on one of the sites and downloaded France, put it in (on a SD card) and it looks like it works, but it looks like it's missing some details, a few villages near where I'm going appear on google maps but no sign of them on the satnav streetmap.
If you download Australia, W Europe etc you can't put these whole maps on the SD card as they're too big and they need to be 'tiled' - that is, you open them on your PC, and choose the 'tiles' (large parts of countries) into one map and then these are used to make your desired map for the satnav.
I'm wondering if I DL the whole W Europe thing and create my own would it likely be the same as the one I already have or not?
Has anyone used them?