Winter Layout

Just a quick note – now the OpenMTBmap features a winter layout for winter sports – it was better this way then integrating it into the hiking layout.

And if you need a Garmin Oregon 700 or Etrex 35 touch – amazon.de has them heavily discounted today for Black Friday. That’s pretty rare to find them that cheap. Edge 520 is also really cheap – but I don’t recommend it to be used with maps – it’s simply too slow (edge 530/830/1030 are not on offer). If so the edge explore is also pretty cheap – it’s better than the 520 Plus and for using maps it’s pretty fine too. It’s main problem – no compass/altimeter.

MapInstall finally fixed by Garmin – Download lists reworked – Gmapsupp.img downloads now showing in Basecamp by default

Updates for November 2019

Since 30. October there is finally a new version of Basecamp 4.7.1 available – which includes an updated MapInstall 4.2.1 for Windows – which fixes sending .img format maps to devices.

For MacOSx the newest MapInstall version – 4.3.2 was fixed already much longer ago – though if you don’t need to update to Basecamp 4.8.x on Mac OSx due to 32 bit support dropped in macOS Catalina – there is no reason to upgrade either. Basecamp 4.8.4 still runs unstable if you don’t use English as language (you can set the language in Basecamp preferences). I don’t know yet if the newest 4.8.6 runs stable in all languages. MapInstall 4.3.2 seems pretty stable – but very occasionally errors have been reported. In my opinion don’t let Garmin Basecamp 4.6.2 missing Catalina support stop you from upgrading to Catalina. Basecamp 4.8.6 should be good enough.

For both Basecamp 4.7.1 (Windows) and Basecamp 4.8.6 (macOS) the lost functions like google earth integration are not back. I guess most people will not notice the missing functions however.

 

I have often heard complaints of people that gmapsupp.img maps do not show in Basecamp. I still […]