Thread: Garmin Free Topo Maps Installs

I have Disabled all but the 3 i downloaded those ones i have as enabled

I'm not sure where to go from there then. Are you using MR purples? If so It should just be plug and go.
was it a new memory card or an existing one you are using?

Originally Posted by faregame

... However - there is a 100 tile limit (thanks garmin) and each KMZ is 54 tiles in size - so you can only use 1 file at a time

So does anyone have a nice solution to work around this?

You can edit the KMZ files and remove unwanted tiles (like areas outside the national park, or area you are hunting. I do this for the four maps that cover the Tararua's. I can then have three of the maps displayed on the GPS instead of 1. This works well, and all I need to do is connect the gps (62S in my case) and copy across the maps that cover the area to which I am going to hunt.

I also use the free nz open org gps mapset. So if I go off the custom maps (KMZ) the open org maps are displayed. link below.
NZ Open GPS Project

Seems to work ok but isn't perfect. But to be honest, the better solution will be to have something like freshmap or maptoaster installed. But they cost money and I am a tight bastard!

Maptoaster: New Zealand Topo Maps for your Garmin GPS :: MapToaster Mobile/NZ - NZ Topographical Maps
Freshmap: Garmin™ GPS Topographic Mapping

Originally Posted by Timmay

I'm not sure where to go from there then. Are you using MR purples? If so It should just be plug and go.
was it a new memory card or an existing one you are using?

Brand new one mate

As long as you formatted the card as fat32 before you put the maps on it then I have no idea

Might have to try a reformat and try again. Cheers mate

Yip that worked. Just needed a re reformat

I had problems with my eTrex 20 GPS not showing the KMZ files from the topomap site had reformatted my SD card a few times to try and solve the issue, it turned out all I had to do after a bit of googling was create a folder named garmin on the card then put in a subfolder called CustomMaps put all my maps into subfolder and it worked.