By far one of the best and clearest GPS Map installation videos I have come across!

After spendind hours trying to upload maps to my 30x I watched your video and had it sorted in 20 mins. Thanks very much from a geocacher in Western Australia

I gave this a go and what do you know? It still works in 2023! Great tutorial video - One of the best on Garmin trail maps!

I've been using open street maps for years and downloaded several maps for different countries in Europe. Works great.

Thanks! I almost gave up on trying to get better maps on my Garmin etrek 20! This is the best tutorial I've come across!

Thanks a million for this tutorial. I needed a map for Suriname and really didn't know how to fix this. I got to the Garmin page and it would cost me at least $250,- for a map covering South America. This tutorial is very accurate, simple and fast!! Keep up the good work! 🙂💪

Many thanks from the UK, I had just paid Garmin £20 for a years subs, and could have had it for free, followed your instructions and brilliant the map I needed was better than the Garmin one, thank you again

This is the best video hands down I found after searching for days. Followed the steps outlined verbatim and got the map onto my etrex, without having to use any software. My etrex had become a paper weight till I saw your video. Now I use it so much. Thank you web cacher !!

Just bought our first Garmin 20X and followed your video for our first map as a trial run. Easy to follow and we are on our way! Thanks!

Yours is first video I've seen that explains in simple steps on downloading maps. I downloaded a map of my city and environs and it worked. Thanks.

Thank you! I was about to drop $100 for Gamin's topomaps. This worked perfectly and the maps look great! Couldn't get the SD card file to show up on the Garmin, but it worked after I installed it directly on the Garmin.

Thanks! Just bought a used Garmin and great to see there’s an option to get more detailed maps to use. Cheers!

thank you, it is nice to see there are people who are not driven only by profits.

This video was super helpful, I was able to load local trail maps onto my Garmin handheld marine gps.

Thanks so much for your help! My dad gave me an old Garmin GPSmap 60CSx that we used for Geocaching when I was a kid. This should help breathe some life into the ol' girl :)

Brilliant tutorial mate, worked perfectly on my GPSMap 64x, thank you very much👍

Thank you for this excellent guide. Things just got a whole lot simpler.

Finally, GREAT explanation with great related websites. THANK YOU!

Thanks. I’m going to try this rn. Going on a hike tmmrw and your video was the most simple and very explanatory one. I’ll let you know how it goes after I download the map.

Hi, this is the best instructional video, I just installed some maps onto my garmin using a mac will be using it for kayaking, hiking and Hunting Thank you- Thank you

This is excellently done. No shortcuts. Worked for me on first try.

By far the best GPS Map video and tutorial I've found. Very much appreciated. I was looking for a way to get off-road trails onto the Garmin and this works perfectly. I do ADV motorcycle riding and this makes the gps so much more functional. While this doesn't use the openstreets from a download perspective, knowing about it allows me to contribute to the trail mapping if I find myself on trails that aren't currently mapped. Question though, I've noticed that no matter how many of these images I load the GPS can only find one of them, is this a known limitation?

Great video, worked good just as you describe. Now I'm ready to go caching on vacation!

Install was simple and appears to work just fine. Trail riding will tell for sure. Thanks.

New Garmin owner. Great video. Very helpful. Thank you.

Really useful. Thanks very much. Trouble is I’ll now have to go and buy a new Garmin.👍

OMG! What i was looking for !! your contet is to the point, clear, easy to follow. Thank you!

Thanks watching from Cameroon, it's very helpful. I will use it for wildlife surveys.

Well Done and easy to follow. Used procedure for Etrex 32X and it worked smoothly

Tried this out yesterday. Works great with a few caveats. Too many polygon points from trying to shape the map? It won't generate so keep it simple. The only other issue seemed to be trying to capture too large of an area causing it to lose details. Thanks for making this nicely done and informative video.

I only found you on the bike site after I had done the job..but still a great video. One question that if you fancied making a new video...an explanation of the different Download Formats. The help section is not so great in telling you the differences.. just thought Cheers Neil

thank you very much, this is the best video on how to add maps

Great video dude! 😎

I’m from the uk and got my maps from Talkie toaster for my etrex 35, it has snap to trail route planning and even trails that aren’t shown on ordinance survey maps .

excellent video, clearly explained.

Haven't tried the process yet, but it would have been more motivating if you had - at the end of the video - demonstrated the new map on your Garmin Device!

very informative video - thx. we were planning on a back country Canoe trip in Canada. I hope it works.

Nice. Unfortunately the trails in my area aren't on the Open Street Map... But for future geo-vacations this may come in handy.

Really works great! Thanks for the info. One question, if you add the maps directly to a MicroDS card with the device still read them?

Very useful and easy to follow - thanks!

WORK'S MINT AS THANKS BRO IM FROM NZ AND IN APRIL 2021 WORKS A CHARM CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH @WebCacher

This video is really easy to follow! Thanks.

Work like a charm! Thanks!

thanks for sharing will give this ago in the morning . hope they have this for my area of North Wales UK

Great Video and yes it worked for me on Etrex 30x, many thanks.

Will this show your position on the map or is the map just for reference? Would be great if it shows your progress along the trails

Great video, really easy to follow the instructions, cheers

When you're choosing the area you want the map to cover, is there a size limit?

For the most part everything went though as directed... but when I went to my search "Diana's Throne" on Open Street Map -- Saw three results. Went to BBBike and I had three results. I could click on all three, BUT they wouldn't open the map. While this is nice.. it was a little odd that three people created maps, but they were all kind of different

worked flawless for me. thank you

Thank you great video easy to follow and worked brill !!

Excellent instructional thank you!

it worked perfectly Thank you so much

nice tutorial. thanks Matt.

Really useful and great ! Thanks so much.

Brilliant! Thank you!

Thanks you a lot for this very precious video.

thanks , great video worked on my Garmin etrex 30x easy as . Would a link straight to the extracts page make it easier ?

Wow, as a mature lady in age, this will be so easy to follow. My Garmin 62st had a major malfunction so I have just received my Garmin 64sx. I kept my old sd card which has Ordnance Survey maps on it, I live in the UK. Will I be able to load these free trail maps onto the same sd card, I don't want to corrupt what is already there. Thank you so much for this video.

Well done and very informative

when I download and unzip, I see no "disc Image file" as in your example.

Fantastic! Thank you for the information, I was starting to get really irritated with the lack of trails on my GPS. Is there a way to import this file into base camp as well?

Thanks for the video. I followed your steps exactly & turned out working great. That being said, When I tried to do a second file my GPS will not allow me to switch between the 2??? I started with the State of Utah & was Successful. I uploaded the state of Idaho & it works as well. The only way I have found to switch between the maps is to pull one map out of the Garmin File & leave the desired map in the file??? Seems to me like I should be able to switch between the maps on the units... Any thoughts would be appreciated. Sincerely...

thank you very much for this video. I followed all the steps, but map never appeared in Maps-> Information ....not sure what can be the reason

Hi there!! thank you so much for the help!!! Is there any way we can download the maps like in satellite view or something similar? Thank you so much in advance!

For the format you choose Garmin Liesure (latin1) which is more of a Road map (or so it appears). I want to download a map for back country hiking. Am I correct that if I download the format Garmin OSM(UTF-8) it would have more topo features that will show elevation grades, hiking trails, etc.?

thank you very useful well explained

OMG, my head is spinning. I will have to watch this video 4 or 5 times, but thanks for making it.

if you want the Base layer in upper right to be "OSM cyclemap" what option in the left dropdown do you choose to get that baselayer download? Thanks

Great video. I got to the end and enabled the map but now how do I get it to show up on my Garmin 64st?

I travel all over the country searching for the best trails around. Do you know how much memory it will take to download the whole United states?

Thanks for the clear explanation, it was very well done. I'm a beginner, so still groping in the dark with the eTrex 22x, and I'm stumped. I defined the map I wanted and extracted it following your instructions, received the email, then connected the eTrex, but NO WINDOW opened (I'm on a Mac). The Micro SD card I had, was bigger than the 32GB limit, so I removed it. Is that why no window opened on the Garmin? Thanks for any help! I want to use the eTrex in the Minnesota "northwoods" - the lake country on the Canadian border. About to leave for a month in the area, Voyageurs National Park, and Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. In VNP, navigating could be confusing with big lakes, so I decided to get the GPS. Again, I appreciate the excellent tutorial.

Garmin GEOMAP 66s read and list only one such map even if you upload few, so you need select bigger area. Quite ok merge with BirdsEye.

will the download format "Garmin Onroad (latin1) be compatible with the 64st's automotive turn by turn navigation setting?

Can you search POI's in the map options of the handheld when you have these maps enabled? Say, a gas station or hospital etc.

This works for the first try, but when I try to upload another map it doesn't show up on the map settings section at all. I tried this multiple times, downloading from the very beginning

Excellent - Thank you sir...

Are these maps compatible with MapSource? So far I'm not able to open the maps through the MapSource software. I have a Garmin 60CS which is an older model. Please advise.

All went well except the final "gmappsup.img" in the zip file was corrupt and I cannot download it. So I'm stuck.

good morning when I plug in my etrex 10 I see the maps that I down loaded but don't see them etrex sreen on my Garmin . Did I miss a step? Thanks in advance

Hi guys , is there any option to download more terain map , mean diggerent layout ? Thanks

Do they offer motorcycle trails or just hiking?

Tried several times but always comes up saying the disc image is corrupted. Can you explain?

Hey Matt, awesome video. But I'm still having a problem that maybe you have seen. This is the second map site I've tried to download topo maps from and I really like this one far better. But after following the instructions step by step and I can see the maps on my 128gb card from the directory but when going under Map Information, the only maps I see are the default ones that came with the 64s. In fact I see three image files in that directory now and none of them are showing. Thoughts? Thanks!

Thank you!!

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Hello WebCacher, just downloaded the file and was curious and clicked on the gmapsupp file and it said file corrupt. I know I'm supposed to copy it to a folder but was wondering if it is normal for the file to say corrupt if I try and open it? tks

why can't I insert more areas into the garmin, only one area allowed me?

Emails arent being sent anymore. huge backlog. Never did get my file. "request is #41462 in the queue. The delay is approximately 172.8 days." Go to the lower left of the webpage and click on status and then you can see all the files people have requested as well as yours. There you can click on download. Thx for the video!

Every time I download the map file it’s only 46kb and it says corrupted when I try to open it

I followed your instructions which are the same as everyone else and the map is not available when I am using my GPSMap64s. I have tried putting it on the SD card and in the Garmin memory in the Garmin folder in both cases. It has never worked. Some success with Basecamp but only about 10% of the time.

I have a 67i, when I attempt to move the gmap file to either the internal or sb on the device, it will not accept it. When I drag and try to drop it in, it displays a red "not allowed" circle with slash. The Garmin already has the files you created in the video (the "Garmin" file). I tried to create new folders but it will not give me the option. Any Help?

I got a message saying the disc file was corrupted. Any way i can fix this?

would this work for an Inreach Mini?

Hello , I have a Garmin GPS 64st. I did the download as directed. I am unable to find the map on my GPS. any advice??? after not hearing anything. I contacted Garmin, OPEN street is not compatible.

I have a Montana and everything works as described but I cannot get the transferred map to appear on my screen. When I go to setup, the map is enabled. Do I need to choose a different format? I am assuming that my map will apperar on my screen as a normal part of my view; is this assumption correct?

thank you for your guide. I am having issues with one of the steps. When I open the downloaded file of the map I don't see any file called gmaps or any file that is a disk image file. What am I doing wrong?

Followed instructions to the T. Does not work on my eTrex 20X. Map loads, but the tools are all blanked out. Any ideas where I am going wrong?

So is the MicroSD Card a necessity???