+Mole60 Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Hi, I am going to France later this year and hope to do a little bit of geocaching. I know I will fly into Paris and stay for 2-3 days. Then I will be going to the Dordogne district. Does anyone know if specific maps of France are necessary? I use a Colorado 300. Is there a website where there are free online maps I could download? Many thanks for your help, Mole60 Quote Link to comment
BMW JEDI Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Would Free OSM routable maps work for you? Quote Link to comment
+Mole60 Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 Would Free OSM routable maps work for you? Will check it out. thanks! Quote Link to comment
+moose61 Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I always use OSM maps when traveling to a city. Also in Paris the quality of maps was no issue. Going off roads onto tracks it strongly the quality of the OSM maps depents on the local GPS users. Quality varies, although the need to get a good quality map also depends on your geocaching plans. As long as you stay close to roads OSM is never an issue. Have fun in France! Moose61 Quote Link to comment
+Mole60 Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 OSM maps look promising. How do I download it to GPSr? When I downloaded a Singapore map recently, I did it onto an SD card (on my Colorado 300) making sure it was put in the GPX folder. But I could not check till I got to Singapore. Then when I went to Singapore I turned on the GPSr and miraculously (so it seemed to me because I'm not very techy) the caches that I had in my pocket query showed up in the map. Is it the same process? Mole60 Quote Link to comment
+Mole60 Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 Good ones here: http://fredericbonifas.free.fr/osm/garmin.html Really? Are you getting confused between map and caches?. Caches go into the GPX folder, maps into the Garmin folder. Yes, I was confused when writing about it. Maps - Garmin folder. Caches - GPX. Thnks. Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.