![]() It comes free with additional maps purchased from Garmin. Mapsource is the older commercial piece of software that is actually the one that we use. ![]() This is the most modern piece of software that Garmin have made. In order to manage your GPS through your computer there are two pieces of software that you can use.īasecamp is a free piece of software that has all the functionality that you need – most importantly the ability to hold multiple maps and to download the bits you choose to your GPS. This is a requirement of most Garmin GPS’ although some of the newer ones have relaxed this and also allow multiple maps The second is use Garmin software to load maps into the GPS. In order to do this the file must be named gmapsupp.img. img file which can be directly placed on your GPS in the Garmin file. There are 2 ways of getting maps into your GPS. However I don’t believe that this has a big enough screen for use for auto naviagation – it also does not have verbal turn by turn navigation. ![]() We also have a GPS from the GPSMap 62 series which we use for hiking and as a backup. For overlanding purposes there is not much difference in the feature set between them so it is best to chose the cheapest available with a screen size that is comfortable for you and that includes the maps for any Western countries that you will be travelling in or live in. We bought a backup Garmin in Peru which came with a commercial Peru map which inisisted on routing us through Lima wherever we wanted to go – even if it meant a 2000km journey to go 20km.Īll is not lost however because there are a whole bunch of open source maps that do a much better job than their commercial cousins and the best thing is that they are all free – Yay ! Garmin and Tom Tom sell some commercial maps for overland zone countries – Forget them because they are bloody awful. Tom Tom’s are great – but they just don’t have maps outside their Western markets. There are also people that we have met that just haven’t got the message that Garmin GPS is the only way to go. ![]() We have met people who have been overlanding without GPS and everytime without fail we have a conversation with each other after the event where we call them crazy. ![]()
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