Garmin PNAs The maps are compatible with nearly all Garmin PNAs with a color screen (e.g. Legend/Vista HCx and Cx, 60/76CSx, Oregon, Colorado,Edge 705, Nuvi, Streetmap).
Garmin Mapsource (Windows based PC/Wine/ Mac) Mapsource compatible – I recommend using 6.13.7 and not bother with the slow and resource hungry 6.14.x and greater. If you have not yet installed Mapsource – here is how to do it: http://openmtbmap.org/tutorials/install-mapsource/ You can have both Mapsource Versions installed – see here for a description (German only – I will translate too english later): http://www.naviuser.at/forum/showthread.php?t=826
Garmin Basecamp – The steps below have to be taken to make Basecamp recognise the maps.
Mac OSx users – You have to do this before converting the maps – Windows/Linux users you simply do it and replace original *.img. Load all maps (all *.img – name consisting of an 8 digit number) that you want to be able to view in Basecamp into gmaptool, then go to the tab "Split" and tick "add empty DEM". Choose a new output folder (Directory) because the maps have to be rewritten by gmaptool. Then convert the newly written .img instead of the original *.img. Note however that it might be possible that Mapsource/Roadtrip/Basecamp or GPS might crash when you want to display an altitude profile – because the altitude data that is expected is of course missing.
Qlandkarte GT (since version 0.13) – Cross Platform www.qlandkarte.org – no autorouting support though. Comes with most Linux distributions, binaries for Windows available, other platforms need to compile. Qlandkarte GT version 0.15.1 or greater now also runs on Windows Vista / 7.
PDA, Smartphone (Windows CE or ME) Also compatible with Garmin Mobile XT (installable to any Windows Smartphone) – Garmin Mobile XT does. If you don’t want to buy Garmin Mobile XT there is also Glopus (as of version 2.02 beta or higher) and Qlandkarte M which you can try. Neither of the latter supports autorouting however.
Incompatibilities: Iphone, IQue 3600 (and others?), old Garmin handhelds without color screen and (micro)SD card. Any other program or PNA that doesn’t support .TYP-files. (like TTQV, Compegps,….).
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Just to confirm I managed to get a map loaded on Garmin Mobile XT runnining on My Nokia N95 8gb (Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition)
Need to spend more time testing, but everything seems good so far
Under “Incompatibilities” you state “old Garmin handhelds without color screen and (micro)SD card”.
I have an original mono screen eTrex Vista, which has only internal memory (24MB ?). I uploaded to it a couple of sections of the GB map, without routing data. I have only panned and zoomed the map a bit as a quick test, but your maps seem to work with it just fine.
Well, you are not able to see the waytypes properly. Of course the map runs fine, but what appears to be a highway will be displayed as path and so on. So in effect it would take a long time getting used to it. Of course it’s fine to use Mapsource, upload routes and tracks, but the ways will be very difficult to distinguish, and some not shown at all I expect.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by ‘properly’. There seem to be a good variety of waytypes showing up, clearly distinguishable. Compared to the previous complete absence of anything other han public highways, this is MUCH better. Is there any way I can submit some screenshots ? (I do know how to capture the image.)
Maybe perfomance on older units has recently been improved as a side-effect of other changes ?
No I don’t think it’s possible to add photos here.
You could upload photos on my page on OSM wiki user page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Extremecarver
I can then upload them on here
Or you integrate them via imageshack and Co, I don’t know if that works though
Mac OSx page has been added
Thank you for this project. I tried it on Mapsource for windows and it worked fin. I would like to use it on my Mac (Macsource for Mac), but i don't know to install. I tried to use mapconvert (windows program to convert maps for mac) but i doesn't finds the installed maps. Any idea?