Free OpenStreetMap maps on Garmin Sat Navs

Free OpenStreetMap maps on Garmin Sat Navs

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Henry M

74 posts

195 months

Monday 7th September 2020
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Not very useful for the United States. It only allows selection of an individual state!

LTP

2,124 posts

115 months

Monday 7th September 2020
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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 Works like a charm in my 2015 V8V; I just get the odd warning on the nav screen about how out-of-date the original maps are.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

345 posts

166 months

Saturday 12th September 2020
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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

5,693 posts

240 months

Saturday 12th September 2020
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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

196 posts

234 months

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

52 posts

8 months

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

John