Free OpenStreetMap maps on Garmin Sat Navs

[Henry M]

Not very useful for the United States. It only allows selection of an individual state!

[LTP]

Astonnewby said:

When you say you purchased an SD card did it have maps on or was it blank ?

In my case I actually bought an SD card from Garmin with the maps pre-loaded (it was actually on a micro-SD, but it came with a carrier to fit the SD slot) as the cost wasn’t that much more than a blank card and it saved me the hassle of downloading files and burning my own SD. Works like a charm in my 2015 V8V; I just get the odd warning on the nav screen about how out-of-date the original maps are.

[moveover]

I've successfully updated the maps on my Garmin-based system (Vanq2013). However, the speed limit icon and traffic information icon have both disappeared from the screen. Anyone else noticed this?

[phumy]

moveover said:

I've successfully updated the maps on my Garmin-based system (Vanq2013). However, the speed limit icon and traffic information icon have both disappeared from the screen. Anyone else noticed this?

Are you able to go into settings and turn them on again?

[stegefal]

I am re-visiting this post with a MY2016 Vantage V8 with the AMI II system. I found the navigation unit in the rear left of the boot area. Interestingly there wasn't a SD card in the slot.

Also the website for Open Street Maps has changed to:

https://garmin.bbbike.org/

I chose the Garmin OSM (latin1) format based on their

I am about to try and see if it still works, I'll let you know

[Go60 Jay]

Thanks, I would be interested in this. I have a late 2020 SD card which I believe is the last one they did.

John

[Chopdogs]

I’ve now got my Sat nav back working with up to date files.

The new website works well. Had a bit of trouble getting the downloaded file onto the SD - but that was more to do with corporate security than anything else.

Strangely, I had to insert the SD card with the sat nav on to get anything to work

V happy with the result.

Edit - I cannot seem to put in a postcode search, so not 100%happy

Edited by Chopdogs on Sunday 15th September 10:52

[LooneyTunes]

Do be careful with OpenStreetMap. With it including user generated content, some of the mapping is flat out wrong (e.g. sometimes private tracks listed as roads by whoever added them).

Obviously people shouldn’t blindly follow satnav instructions, but worth being even more cautious with OSM of out in the countryside in particular.