Need World Map for Mapsource

[+BigFurryMonster]

For Mapsource, I'm looking for a basic, free world map to display waypoints on. Just an outline of continents and/or countries will do nicely.

Does anyone know where to get that?

[Darwin473]

Are you after an interactive map like Google Maps where you can place markers and people can zoom in, or just an image?

 

For an interactive map, there are a few apps, sites and options within GM to save a list of waypoints and share them, like sharing a list of bookmarks. Here is one way to do this.

 

For a static image, your best bet will be a search engine with additional search options. Using Google, you would run a search for "world map", click on the "Images" tab, click on the "Tools" option and select Size = Large. Then tinker around with the search options (such as Simple or Clipart etc) until you find one you like. If you follow the link to the page the image is hosted on, you should only need to visit a dozen or so to find one that says anybody can use without a fee. You could also draw one yourself if it doesn't need to be too accurate, Photopea is a free online version of Photoshop which is fairly easy to use (you can learn how by watching a few Photoshop tutorial videos on how to draw basic shapes) if you need an image editing program (works best on a pc/laptop rather than a phone).

[+BigFurryMonster]

I'm looking for a map for my own use, for the Mapsource program. I'd like to plot waypoints on it, and measure some distances, etc.

I know the plotting is possible on Google Maps, but Mapsource allows me a bit more options.

I don't think using images of maps helps me out.

 

The website http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ would be a logical first stop, but I can only seem to find per-continent maps, not full world maps (and I do not need all the detail).

[+Viajero Perdido]

Will this work? Found it via a search. 

https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=461

[+BigFurryMonster]

Alas, not. It requires "An initial installation of the Palm Desktop for Garmin iQue must be completed before installing this utility.".

No idea what that is.

[+Viajero Perdido]

If you want to experiment with a 3GB download...  The name in the context of the others suggests it might be a world map.

https://maptourist.org/osm-garmin/OSM-MapTourist-mapsource-EN.zip

 

Found it here:  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download

and here:  https://maptourist.org/

There may be other options on the wiki page, but maptourist seems the most likely.

 

EDIT: One more, at your own risk as always.

https://en.freedownloadmanager.org/Windows-PC/MapSource-WorldMap.html

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by Viajero Perdido

[Darwin473]

Are you using it for figuring out road trips to collect caches along routes, or more off-the-track type maps?

 

If it's mainly streets, I have an app that uses Open Street Map - free mapping worldwide (divided up into areas) which works great for driving from A to B. I haven't tried it for hiking and going along trails but I believe it is a bit rubbish for that.

 

If you aren't doing a round the world mega-trip, you may be better off sourcing hiking / trail / topography maps of the specific areas you want to travel in if that's the case. Though it isn't something I've gone looking for, so I'm not sure where to start looking for something like that.

[+PeoriaBill]

Open Street Maps used to be great.  I don't know what has happened, but you can't select maps like in the past.  You have to minimum download a whole state/country.  When you make the request the queue is incredibly long. (This request is #104839 in the queue. The delay is approximately 436.8 days.)  I am just passing along something another cacher posted, but it seems to at least give you a map.  Try this site:  https://garmin.opentopomap.org.  Good luck with your search.

Edited December 4, 2021 by PeoriaBill

[+Hynz]

On 12/4/2021 at 8:04 AM, PeoriaBill said:

Open Street Maps used to be great. 

OSM is still great. What's not so great is that the site (garmin.openstreetmap.nl) you and many others including myself used to get maps is unfortunately no longer working.

There are many other sites providing various flavours of maps all based on the map data of the OpenStreetMap project like the mentioned Opentopomap (opentopomap.org).