If you're the owner of a Garmin GPS hardware device, you should already know MapSource, the software associated to the majority of devices designed by this leading global positioning systems company. Decide the route you're going to follow MapSource can be used from a computer to be able to configure and decide the itinerary which will be followed during a trip before leaving our house, something which will make it much easier to move between designated places once on board our vehicle.
The only problem with this software and the associated devices is that as time goes by the maps no longer correspond with the reality due to different changes, like a road changing direction or being closed due to road works or new installations, making it more difficult to drive around. Update your maps with the latest information. But this can be solved thanks to installing the updates to MapSource, which introduce all the new maps on the computer, allowing you to send them to the device afterwards. Download MapSource for free to have your GPS software and hardware up to date.
Ibycus isn't better than Garmin Canada topo 4. As far as contours go, some of the areas are exactly the same as the Garmin topo map. Other areas are similar in detail. What it misses is logging roads (basically no logging roads) and no shaded relief. Northwest Topos are definitely awesome and have the best detailed contour I could find. They do have shaded relief (although it disappears when zoomed in to about 70m level), but as Ibycus they lack logging roads.
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Backroads gps maps are excellent too, a bit less detailed contours than Northwest topos, but better than both Ibycus and Garmin. It has excellent shaded relief, lots of logging roads, trails, etc. Actually, for trails the Northwest Trails is a great addition to have (Northwest Topos seem to include them already, as well as Backroad maps), and has been useful to me many times. It's nice when you go out and you already have the trail layed out on the GPS without bothering finding tracks on the internet. For city driving nothing beats OpenStreetMaps. It's the most upto date, with all the latest road/street constructions.
Don't bother with Garmin City Navigator. Even Backroads gps maps aren't as upto date.
So to summarize, the best free option is: Northwest Topos (contours + trails) + OpenStreetMap (logging roads, city driving) The above combination costs $0 and will cover everything you need. Backroads gps maps are nice to have for better logging roads, a bit more trails, and better shaded relief. I'm also wondering if it's possible to get the same level of detail on OpenStreetMaps cycle layer into Basecamp and GPS devices themselves: I've looked around, but couldn't find anything, or generate them myself yet.
They would be a nice option too. The mobile app AlpineQuest has them, so it's an option for smart phones. Quote:Arnold Posted -: 08:46 AM I'm also wondering if it's possible to get the same level of detail on OpenStreetMaps cycle layer into Basecamp and GPS devices themselvesCertainly not easily! I've looked into this myself and the complexity soon overwhelms. I think creating a gpsmapsupp.img file for the device is possible, but so far Basecamp seems unlikely.I don't see why it needs to be hard.
It's simply a matter of converting one map format to another. It's already possible as you get all the trails and roads, etc, but not the contour lines + shaded relief.
And since these maps are 'open data', there shouldn't be any trade secrets about the format. Quote:Arnold Posted -: 08:46 AM I'm also wondering if it's possible to get the same level of detail on OpenStreetMaps cycle layer into Basecamp and GPS devices themselvesCertainly not easily! I've looked into this myself and the complexity soon overwhelms. I think creating a gpsmapsupp.img file for the device is possible, but so far Basecamp seems unlikely.Indeed, but not impossible.
I've found there are two choices, if you have a recent Garmin unit with BirdsEye, you can use OkMap to generate quick and dirty maps. Being BirdsEye they're not navigable and can be slow, but workable in a pinch. Second option is to pull the raw data and make real maps. These are the steps I use - they work well enough for me but I've seen countless other ways.
Goto Open Street Maps site, find the spot you want, use their export button. Use SRTM2OSM to download topo contours (if you need them) 3. Convert the OSM map data to intermediate Garmin IMG files using MKGMAP 4. Tweak the Garmin TYP file to your liking (map colors, symbols, shading) 5. Compile the IMG files into a Garmin gmapsupp using MKGMAP 6. Upload the file to your GPS, view in Basecamp when GPS connected.
Optionally use MapSetToolKit to install your custom map into BaseCamp. I know nothing about GPS, but these posts have been helpful. A few questions so far have narrowed my search to the 62s or 62st. Only difference between the two as far as I can tell is the 62st comes with the canada TOPO map and is 170$ more. Should i get the 62s and download free maps from the internet or should i get the 62st? (even though i will probably still want free maps) If i purchased the 62s what free maps should i download for BC? Having logging roads on the maps is important to me, in this case do i need to get the 62st?
How does putting the maps onto the GPS go? Do you have to use them one at a time or will something like the free contour map overlay onto something like the shaded relief map?