open street map on Magellan

[sunflowerflyer]

I just found the open street map project www.openstreetmap.org. The basic idea is a free open worldwide street map that is user updateable. I checked a couple areas that my friends 6 month old garmin with the additional $100 mapsource software loaded is still a couple years out of date. These were very accurate in open street map. Of course the standard base map on the unit does not have near the detail.

 

While they offer software solutions to load the map on Garmin units, I can't seem to figure out how to load it on Magellans. Although we currently own a Garmin 76, and older explorist, we have a chance to buy a magellan XL fairly reasonable.

 

Thanks in advance,

sunflowerflyer

[DavorF]

There are several apps for creating Magellan maps.

 

Look at http://www.msh-tools.com/ , many useful apps like http://www.msh-tools.com/addmagmap/index.html.