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I am traveling to Europe for 2 weeks in May.  I want to do some geocaching while there.   I did not want to spend $100 on garmin European maps.  Any suggestions how i can do it with a gps without the maps. I will not have a cell phone either.  Tks

 

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4 hours ago, HHL said:

These maps are highly recommended:

Freizeitkarte - Overview EN

 

Hans

 

Have you compared with the NL maps msrubble linked?  These are the ones I use, but if a better option exists out there, I'd love to hear your experience.

 

11 hours ago, msrubble said:

You can get free maps from OpenStreetMap. There's a bit of a learning curve in building the maps you want, so start poking around early.

 

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Hi K'n'l,

 

Where are you traveling to in Europe and which Garmin GPSr do you have?

 

This is a site that I use a lot when traveing in Europe. Most of the countries are listed and you can either download a finished map for an SD Card or for using with Basecamp / Mapsource.

 

http://garmin.opentopomap.org/

 

here are some more links

http://www.freizeitkarte-osm.de/garmin/en/

http://download.freizeitkarte-osm.de/garmin/1903/ (download the files ending in img.zip)

http://www.raumbezug.eu/osm-garmin_en.htm (all maps for Europe have just been updated yesterday / today)

 

Have fun looking around and enjoy your trip in May

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On ‎3‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 12:07 PM, speakers-corner said:

Hi K'n'l,

 

Where are you traveling to in Europe and which Garmin GPSr do you have?

 

This is a site that I use a lot when traveing in Europe. Most of the countries are listed and you can either download a finished map for an SD Card or for using with Basecamp / Mapsource.

 

http://garmin.opentopomap.org/

 

here are some more links

http://www.freizeitkarte-osm.de/garmin/en/

http://download.freizeitkarte-osm.de/garmin/1903/ (download the files ending in img.zip)

http://www.raumbezug.eu/osm-garmin_en.htm (all maps for Europe have just been updated yesterday / today)

 

Have fun looking around and enjoy your trip in May

We are going to Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland on a river cruise Amersterdam to Zurich with a few extra dayes before and after.   We have Garmin Etrex 20 and Nuvi 50 LM....    I am in the process of downloading the one you have recommended having a hard time getting the GPS to recognize these maps, am I doing something wrong or mssing a step.    Tks in advance

 

Ken

 

K'n'I

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10 minutes ago, Hooligan14 said:

Also heading to Europe in May and have submitted 2 requests to Openstreetmap over the last month, including manuals builds of 4 cities. Any feedback regarding timeframe for map builds to arrive? 

May have to invest in City Navigator

 

It usually doesn't take more than a few minutes.  You should get two email messages.  The first will indicate that the request has been accepted and is being  put into a queue, then the second one will contain a link to the results.  Check your spam folder to make sure that you at least got the first message.   There was one time when apparently someone initiated a whole bunch of requests and I didn't get the results for several hours but the first message should get returned almost immediately. 

 

I just tried to connect to garmin.openstreetmap.nl and the server is currently extremely slow in responding.   I don't recall ever seeing it so unresponsive and I've created a lot of mapsets using the site.

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On ‎3‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 8:57 AM, Hooligan14 said:

Also heading to Europe in May and have submitted 2 requests to Openstreetmap over the last month...

OpenStreetMap doesn't provide maps for Garmins, so I'm guessing you're probably referring to garmin.openstreetmap.nl. That site currently has some issues and isn't working. This site has a list of others who make maps for Garmins using OSM data. While I haven't used it myself, I've heard good things about BBBike.org.

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17 hours ago, The A-Team said:

OpenStreetMap doesn't provide maps for Garmins, so I'm guessing you're probably referring to garmin.openstreetmap.nl. That site currently has some issues and isn't working. This site has a list of others who make maps for Garmins using OSM data. While I haven't used it myself, I've heard good things about BBBike.org.

Yes, thanks , it was garmin. openstreetmap and now see it si having further server problems at the moment. Will check you recommendation(s)

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On 3/25/2019 at 12:26 PM, on4bam said:

Most of the time is's within half an hour worst case a few hours.

If you want maps right away just select the country maps and download the files directly without waiting.

 

Tried to download direct but got an error and directed to provide email addy and await files. Thanks for info.

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16 minutes ago, Hooligan14 said:

Tried to download direct but got an error and directed to provide email addy and await files. Thanks for info.

 

They now show an error message

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Sorry, this service is currently not available due to networking problems. Please come back later...

 

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1 hour ago, luvvinbird said:

The site's back up. I just requested maps.

 

Confirmed. When I submitted a request there were 215 requests in the queue.  I don't think I've ever seen more than a dozen or so in the queue previously.  It's probably going to take a couple of days to get response times typical of what I'me used to

 

 

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3 hours ago, NYPaddleCacher said:

 

Confirmed. When I submitted a request there were 215 requests in the queue.  I don't think I've ever seen more than a dozen or so in the queue previously.  It's probably going to take a couple of days to get response times typical of what I'me used to

 

 

I've got my maps. Everything is irie again.

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