- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS INSTALL#
- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS ZIP#
- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS DOWNLOAD#
- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS MAC#
This was the last step, now you can unplug your Garmin and boot it up. You need to do a safe eject to make sure the file transfer is completed. (right mouse click on the Garmin -> eject). Then, when everything is done, safely eject the Garmin 520. If you’ve chosen to delete the original and then copy the new map, you may need to empty the trash to actually clear out the space needed for the new map. Make sure the new file’s name is exactly as you see the old one. If you don’t get this prompt, you are either in the wrong folder or have the filename wrong and it will not work. Copy it over into the Garmin folder and give the ‘overwrite’ question a ‘yes’. Now you’re ready to copy the new map on your Garmin Edge 520. I’m renaming the downloaded map to ‘gmapbmap’. Here I’ve copied the original Garmin Base Map to the same folder and renamed it to _backup. Then let’s go back to the downloaded file and rename the downloaded ‘gmapsupp’ to ‘gmapbmap’ (keep the. First, make a local copy of it and keep it somewhere safe for backup purposes. This is about 45MB and is the file we are going to overwrite. On the Edge 520 you will see a folder called Garmin and within it you’ll see ‘gmapbmap.img’, again with or without the extension.
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS MAC#
I’m on a mac but the process is exactly the same on a windows machine. So now you’ve got it, go ahead and plug in your Edge 520 using the USB cable and wait for it to be mounted as an external drive. This is the file you will copy to your Garmin Edge 520.
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS ZIP#
In the zip folder you’ll find a file called gmapsupp.img (it may not display the file extension on your machine).
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS DOWNLOAD#
After your download is completed you can go and unzip the ‘openfietsmap_lite_gmapsupp.zip’ file. The other files are there in case you want to use it on other platforms, so you can ignore them. The one you want is ‘openfietsmap_lite_gmapsupp.zip’. Follow the link in the e-mail and you’ll be presented with a couple of downloads: This may take some time depending on the demand. The site’s servers will generate a seamless stitched together map of your selection. Once you’re happy with your selection, fill in your e-mail address and add your map request to the queue. If you keep it to 90Mb you have a large safety margin as the Garmin and Strava files are pretty tiny. You can fit more (about 100Mb), but you need to keep some space for your session, strava and other files. While doing so, keep an eye on the side bar, it will give an estimation of the map size, which you want to keep under 90Mb. Now you can select tiles on the map by clicking on them. As you can see the maps is cut up in tiles.Īfter you found the area you’re interested in, you need to enable the ‘manual selection’ just above the map: You can select an entire country, but it’s likely that the map is too big to fit on the internal storage of the 520 (you only have about 100Mb of storage). The next step is to move to the area that you want to have on your Edge 520. If you miss this step, the map you get will not be completely useless, but the bike only maps are actually smaller, so you can fit more on and have the information not to send you on a highway. If you’re wondering, ‘fiets’ is Dutch for ‘bike’. Second, and an important step, is to set the map to the bike maps. UPDATE: openstreetmap currently only allows entire countries. This is a dedicated site to allow you to get the maps you need, and it’s free! Get a cycling map for the Garminįirst, go to. While it’s pretty much fool proof, I haven’t heard of anyone breaking their device doing this, I can not be held responsible if you do break your device. Please note that you choose to do this yourself. The process is really easy and I’ll walk you through it with easy instructions.
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL REMOVE OLD MAPS INSTALL#
To install maps on the Garmin Edge 520 you need to take a couple of steps. Back to start is great if you feel like just going for a ride in an area you don’t know. You can’t tell it to navigate you to your favorite pub, but you can tell your Garmin to bring you back to the start and see whereabouts you are. Well, depending on how much data is available of course. However, the Garmin Edge 520 supports that you install your own maps! And, thanks to OpenStreetMap, you can get a detailed bike map of your region for free. In my area they are the main roads on which bikes are mostly not allowed. While writing my review on the Garmin Edge 520 I stumbled across what Garmin calls their ‘base’ maps. Posted on Novemin Cycling // 117 Comments
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