Yesterday Garmin announced (press release | blog) official software upgrades for the Oregon, Dakota and Colorado which include the Garmin Custom Maps feature. Garmin described Custom Maps as “a free, simple process that helps users transform the maps they currently have – in paper or digital form – into downloadable maps for compatible Garmin GPS [...]
After experimenting with GPS Visualizer to create Garmin KMZ files last week I contacted Adam Schneider, author of GPS Visualizer, about making it easier to create Garmin Custom Maps using his very useful (and free) online tool. Today Adam published changes to GPS Visualizer which simplify the process of creating Custom Maps from some types [...]
There’s so much going on with Garmin Custom Maps right now it is hard to keep up! Here are some more tips, tools, resources and limitations we’ve learned about today that we would like to pass along. If you have discovered your own please post them here or over on the wiki discussion threads linked [...]
Edit 10/15: Updated instructions below based on improvements made in GPS Visualizer to support Garmin KMZs using Google Earth. This new post also includes instructions on how to use the GPS Visualizer overlay form to create a Garmin KMZ file, a process which bypasses Google Earth. After Garmin’s announcement yesterday about support for custom raster [...]
Ever since Garmin released Custom Map support on the Oregon, Dakota and Colorado this morning I’ve been playing around with this nifty new feature on my Garmin Oregon 550t. Below I’ll try to pass on a few tips and show some examples to get you started. First I started with a trail map for one [...]
In amongst all of the hype around Garmin’s nuLink two-way connected nuvi 1690, the Nuvifone G60 and the Oregon 300 Mushroom Edition (pdf) here’s some interesting news for Garmin outdoor GPS owners who aren’t mushroom pickers. Yesterday I ran across a new post on Garmin’s TrailTech blog called Creating Garmin Custom Maps in Five Easy [...]
I’m still catching up from end of summer travel so I’ll apologize for being a bit behind in my posts. In case you are a Colorado owner and have not noticed, Garmin released version 3.0 software earlier in the week. The full list of changes, which looks a lot like sum total of what Garmin [...]
