+GadgetNerdly Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Hello, I am wanting to put City Navigator for North American and the 24k Topo maps for my area onto my 62s. Is it possible to have both of them loaded on to my SD card so I can switch back and forth between them as needed? I will be purchasing the DVDs and using my own SD card. I know the maps will fit on the card, but I have read something about a maximum amount of map tiles. I am a noob at this big time and I really don't understand what that means. But I am wondering if that is something I will run into. Ideally I would love to have the entire country on City Navigator and the Topo 24k Northeast DVD. Will that be past the 2025 maps segments? Also I've been hearing a lot about the maps on GPSFileDepot, Are those maps as detailed as the Garmin 24k maps? I know the Garmins have routing and other features I would love to have, but I can live without those if the free maps have good detail. Can I load my entire state on to the card at once? Sorry for all of these questions. I'm really new to all of this. Coming from a BlackBerry to a 62s has been a big leap. Thanks Quote Link to comment
+myotis Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Get City Navigator (you can also get the updates so you get a new version 4 times a year). Send all of it to your card and rename \garmin\gmapsupp.img City Navigator.img The entire CN (including Canada and other plavces) is 153 segments. I would say other than not being routable, the gpsfiledepot maps are generally better than the Garmin maps. They generally are made from higher resolution elevation and hydrology data. Most of the Gpsfiledepot topo maps do not have trails. So make sure you also download and install My Trails (I make it). It is a transparent overlay and has 10s of thousands of trails in the NE. You can use profiles to switch back and forth between topo and City Navigator. My Trails displays on top of CN and topo maps. But City Navigator covers topo maps. So to see the topo maps, your recreation profile will need to disable CN. Quote Link to comment
+GadgetNerdly Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Thank you so much for the help. So your saying CN is only 153 segments? Wow that's crazy. I figured it would be a lot more than that. In other words the maximum of 2000+ segments would be pretty hard to reach? That's good to hear. And just so I'm sure I read your post right. I need to rename the file gmapsupp.img from my DVD to city Navigator.img and then drop it into the card? Is gmapsupp.img used for anything on the 62s? I had a Nuvi and I'm pretty sure it used that file name for the City Navigator inside the Garmin folder on the internal memory. What does renaming the file do? I am going to guess that it will keep it from being the default start up map. Right? I'm just trying to get a better understanding of all of this. Thanks again Quote Link to comment
+GadgetNerdly Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 I just got done checking out My Trails. It sounds awesome. Thanks for the info I hadn't heard of it before. I now think I will be skipping the Garmin 24k maps and get all of my topo needs from GPS files depot. Quote Link to comment
+CacheFreakTim Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 In my experience I don't find the 24K maps to contain any more detail than just the 100k maps from Garmin or GPS File Depot other than more elevation contour lines (at least in my area.) I actually find the GPSFileDepot maps to contain more data than the 100k Garmin maps. The only advantage personally I really see with going with the Garmin maps is the routable navigation in the 24k and I have found the redraw speed to be much faster with the Garmin. Other than that I see no reason not to use the free ones. Quote Link to comment
+myotis Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 And just so I'm sure I read your post right. I need to rename the file gmapsupp.img from my DVD to city Navigator.img and then drop it into the card? Is gmapsupp.img used for anything on the 62s? I had a Nuvi and I'm pretty sure it used that file name for the City Navigator inside the Garmin folder on the internal memory. What does renaming the file do? I am going to guess that it will keep it from being the default start up map. Right? I'm just trying to get a better understanding of all of this. Thanks again No you need to rename it AFTER you compile and send it to your GPS. My understanding is the 62 enables and disables maps based on the img files. Read these: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-open-maps-in-mapsource/ http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-load-maps-on-my-garmin-gps-unit/ http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-change-which-map-is-displayed-on-a-garmin-gps/ Quote Link to comment
yogazoo Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 (edited) The detail of the Garmin 24K series really depends on what state your from. In Montana the 24K series really does have alot of trails and the forest (unpaved) road detail is amazing and un paralleled by any transportation shapefile I've ever found. I know for a fact that Garmin requested road and trail data from the Forest Service and various municipalities across the state. I find it to be invaluable in navigating forests service roads. That said, Garmin doesn't include any detailed public land ownerships which is a huge item to many outdoor enthusiasts in western states where there is alot of public land. Garmin does include the old administration boundaries but they are outdated and do not show percise public land ownership boundaries by a long-shot. I always suggest getting the Garmin 24K maps for people who live in Montana because they really are amazing when it comes to backroads and trails. I also suggest loading one of my maps for the landowner data. Edited July 12, 2011 by yogazoo Quote Link to comment
+jtee Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 just wondering what site or where i can go to download the latest and free city navigator north american 2018..thnks Quote Link to comment
+Red90 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 You can't get city navigator for free. Quote Link to comment
+jtee Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 ive gotten it free for awhile now but cant remember what site i got it from Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 (edited) Do you mean the lifetime map updates for auto navigation devices? Or do you mean the free routable street maps from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl ? Edited March 29, 2018 by Mineral2 Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Mineral2 said: Do you mean the lifetime map updates for auto navigation devices? Or do you mean the free routable street maps from http://garmin.openstreetmap.org ? I knew that link didn't look right. I'm pretty sure you meant http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 3 hours ago, Viajero Perdido said: I knew that link didn't look right. I'm pretty sure you meant http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ Yes. Quote Link to comment
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