Sorry the downloads on this page are only for OpenMTBMap members - get a Membership here https://openmtbmap.org/support/membership/
To Try Out you can download the map of Austria (and contourlines) for free! All other maps are only for members.
- Openmtbmap - Austria - Gmapsupp (MD5)
- VeloMap - Austria - Gmapsupp (MD5)
- Contourlines - Austria - Gmapsupp_20m (MD5)
- Contourlines - Austria - Gmapsupp_10m (MD5)
- Velomap - Austria - Buildings (MD5)
You can also download the Desktop version of most countries for free here: https://openmtbmap.org/download/odbl/:
For simplicity, I've now also made all countries available as gmapsupp.img download - which after unpacking - you can directly move onto your GPS device. Europe, Africa and Asia as full continent maps are too big to offer as gmapsupp.img maps - the Europe continent contourlines are available as gmapsupp.img download however. Note - this way you loose the possibility to only upload a part of a map to your device as you could do using MapInstall (or Mapsource for Windows users). The advantage is that you can very quickly change the layout (on both Windows, as well as Mac OS x or Linux), and that it's the quickest and easiest way. If you want to use the maps for planning on your desktop - then you will need the Desktop map too or instead. Note: If you plan a route in Basecamp on your desktop - you should use exactly the same map on your device (so same date, same country - but Unicode/Non Unicode does not matter - so you could use Non Unicode map on your GPS device if needed, and Unicode map on your Desktop/Notebook) Video Tutorial - if you prefer watching this as a video instead of reading through the text: All maptiles are compiled with mkgmap using map data from openstreetmap.org & Contributors. You can use and edit the map data by visiting openstreetmap.org. The altitude data for the contourlines is from varying sources in the following priority (if available): more exact info which data is used where - inside the copyright.txt files. Unpack with 7-zip (lzma2) . Recommended tools to unpack: Highlighted here the gmapsupp.img that you need to move into the Garmin folder (not any subfolder) of your device. If the device accepts mSD cards - always put it onto the SD and not into the internal memory (only for testing if the mSD card has problems use internal) The default layout is "wide" - the layout optimised for most modern garmin GPS units with comparably high DPI. Move the gmapsupp.img file to the /garmin folder on your mSD of your Garmin GPS unit. Note the contourlines (altitude height lines) are always a separate second download - so updates are smaller as the contourlines rarely change. The second reason why contourlines are a separate download is that this way you can change contourlines layout independently from the map layout. If you want to move several countries to your device - you will need to rename the gmapsupp.img file. E.g. just call it mtbmap_Austria.img. Make sure not to use Umlauts or custom symbols ("_" is okay, better not use " "space. Latin alphabet only) Make sure that the mSD of your Garmin GPS unit is FAT32 formatted. Else it cannot be read by your device. Second - do not forget that most new Garmin GPS devices cannot read Unicode maps - so in that case for maps that have (Unicode) after the name, resort to the non Unicode maps instead. If you have not used OpenMTBMaps before - please read through the topic about Autorouting: https://openmtbmap.org/about-2/autorouting/ Map Legend - look at it too so you can understand the map layout better: https://openmtbmap.org/about-2/map-legend/ Unicode is needed to display several alphabets in one map. Non Unicode maps can only display a single alphabet - e.g. kyrillic and latin - but not both. However Garmin blocked using Unicode maps in part of a broken copyright protection on newer GPS device series. Newer Garmin devices cannot use free unicode maps (except if you hack the firmware) - usually a "cannot authenticate maps" message which show on boot. The following Garmin outdoor devices are affected: you will need to download the "Non Unicode" version of the map. Only maps of regions where several different scripts are used - are in unicode. I've listed the non unicode maps however also unter the unicode header for convenience (actually only maps with (unicode ) following their name are actually in unicode. Also english version of maps is only available for countries/regions not using latin only. Garmin Edge x30 or newer Garmin introduced a completely broken high contrast mode - that washes out the colors of the maps. Either disable the high contrast mode on the map visibility section. Or delete the \Garmin\MapThemes\Mountain.kmtf (sometimes also called \Garmin\MapThemes\Mountains.kmtf ) file (back it up if you think you ever want to use that mode. Since the newest firmware in July 2021 you need to enable classic mode - , select a profile, and select Default - Local Language Unicode. All labels / street names are exactly like in the name tag of OSM. Note for any country that uses latin - the default will be latin1 and the options below are not available. An exception is the South America continent map that is additionally available in English Non Unicode. For USA/Canada this is also the only option. For European countries using latin if you want the English version - you can use the European continent map that is available in English versions. English Unicode: If available in OSM - English or other European language translation is used. If no translation is available in OSM, the local name tag is used. Local Language Non Unicode: Same as default but instead of Unicode the local codepage is used. So some characters may need to be transcribed automatically in creation. Codepage is always the local default codepage. English Language Non Unicode (always latin1): If available English or other European language translation from OSM is used. If not names are transcribed to Latin. SD Cards This is not about the maps but in general Garmin units that have a microSD card slow only accept SDHC cards - SDXC cards will not work. Max 32GB size and you need to format it with FAT32 (not exFAT). Be careful with 32GB cards which are available as both SDHC and SDXC. 16GB and smaller usually are always SDHC. It's very easy to chose a Map layout: By default I've disabled that maps are loaded for display/to show in Basecamp. However if you like to see the map when connecting the GPS device or mSD card to your computer with Basecamp open - you can run the change map layout script (see Adapting the Map Layout above) - at the end of the script you will be asked to enable or disable the Basecamp Map Visibility. The following contourlines are with the standard recommended equidistance of 20m. In mountaineous regions I recommend to use 20m equidistance. However as of popular demand you can alternatively download 10m equidistance for all countries and continents (except Asia continent map - because it is too large). Note that the underlying data outside of Europe in mountaineous regions is actually not good enough to really profit from 10m equidistance lines at all. For flat regions however worldwide 10m contourlines can make sense. So that's why I offer them for download worldwide. In general I recommend not to install more than 6-8GB of maps on your device at any time. As the contourlines do not have an address index or any POI they don't count towards that limit - as they will not slow down your device like normal maps do. Do note however that all Garmin devices have a max tile limit of 2048 or 4096 - so do not forget about that. The South America contourlines 10m for example already have about 3000 tiles. So better just export those ones that you need by using the windows or osX gmapi download instead and send with MapInstall. (that is alsow why there are not Asia gmapsupp 10m contourlines - they would break the 4096 tile limit.) If you break the 2048 or 4096 tile limit - some tiles simply will not be shown - which ones I cannot tell you - that's random. Be very careful about this limit if you go for the 10m contourlines for a continent - or if you insist to install the 20m Asia continent gmapsupp contourlines (also over 3000 tiles). I cannot tell you for gmapsupp.img downloads consisting of several gmapsupp.img maps which map covers which part. That is a bit random too. You can look at the gmapsupp.img map coverage by loading them in QmapShack. German Bundeslaender 20m: France DOM-TOM 20m: For an Overview of the areas covered by the US-extracts please visit: https://openmtbmap.org/support/north-america/ The following contourlines are with equidistance of 10m. In mountaineous regions I recommend to use 20m equidistance instead. However as of popular demand you can alternatively download 10m equidistance for all countries and continents (except Asia continent map - because it is too large). Note that the underlying data outside of Europe in mountaineous regions is actually not good enough to really profit from 10m equidistance lines at all. For flat regions however worldwide 10m contourlines can make sense. So that's why I offer them for download worldwide. Also in Europe only where there is LIDAR coverage 10m contourlines make sense in mountain regions. Inside the copyright file you can find out the data sources. In general I recommend not to install more than 6-8GB of maps on your device at any time. As the contourlines do not have an address index or any POI they don't count towards that limit - as they will not slow down your device like normal maps do. Do note however that all Garmin devices have a max tile limit of 2048 or 4096 - so do not forget about that. The South America contourlines 10m for example already have about 3000 tiles. So better just export those ones that you need by using the windows or osX gmapi download instead and send with MapInstall. (that is alsow why there are not Asia gmapsupp 10m contourlines - they would break the 4096 tile limit.) If you break the 2048 or 4096 tile limit - some tiles simply will not be shown - which ones I cannot tell you - that's random. Be very careful about this limit if you go for the 10m contourlines for a continent - or if you insist to install the 20m Asia continent gmapsupp contourlines (also over 3000 tiles). I cannot tell you for gmapsupp.img downloads consisting of several gmapsupp.img maps which map covers which part. That is a bit random too. You can look at the gmapsupp.img map coverage by loading them in QmapShack. German Bundeslaender 10m: France DOM-TOM 10m: For an Overview of the areas covered by the US-extracts please visit: https://openmtbmap.org/support/north-america/ Many people prefer to not see buildings using the VeloMap in cities. Sadly I cannot filter buildings based on if they are on the countryside or in a city. If you are not interested in the buildings - removing them makes the map faster to pan around - and will save a little bit of battery (the speed difference will be big on older Garmin GPS devices - but nearly not noticeable on newer Garmin GPS devices. Besides of course if you are not interested in the buildings - not seeing them helps with contrast and you can focus on the streets/ways. Other people prefer to see the buildings. For Right now I only move the buildings to a separate layer for the VeloMap - for off road use/ Mountainbiking in general I think that buildings should be shown. I may create that additional layer in future for openmtbmap too if there is demand. Just as above for the contourlines - copy the gmapsupp.img file into the Garmin folder on your GPS devices mSD card (or internal memory if your device has no mSD card). In general I recommend not to install more than 6-8GB of maps on your device at any time. As the buildings do not have an address index or any POI they don't count towards that limit - as they will not slow down your device like normal maps do. Do note however that all Garmin devices have a max tile limit of 2048 or 4096, or around 15000 tiles - so do not forget about that. If you break the 2048 or 4096 tile limit - some tiles simply will not be shown - which ones I cannot tell you - that's random. Be very careful about this limit if you go for continent gmapsupp.img downloads of Europe or Asia. Asia is only possible with contourlines and buildings on devices with 15.000 tiles limit. Europe likely soon break the 4096 tile limit. Why should you download the gmapsupp.img format maps?
- Map Data
Contourlines/DEM data:
Installation:
Compatibility - Unicode vs Non Unicode (cannot authenticate maps)
Language and Codepage
Adapting The Map Layout
Map Visibility in Basecamp
Joining gmapsupp.img files for very old devices
Continents Contourlines 20m:
Europe Contourlines 20m:
Africa Contourlines 20m:
Asia Contourlines 20m:
Australia-Oceania Contourlines 20m
North America Contourlines 20m:
South America Contourlines 20m:
Continents Contourlines 10m:
Europe Contourlines 10m:
Africa Contourlines 10m:
Asia Contourlines 10m:
Australia-Oceania Contourlines 10m
North America Contourlines 10m:
South America Contourlines 10m:
Danke Felix für die Schnelle Antwort, ich werde das mal probieren mit den eigenen Karten, Habe ich vor vielen Jahren schonmal gemacht. War nicht so easy aber du hast ja gute Beschreibungen. Die Höhenlinien Datei Wo es nicht ging mit den Höhenlinien habe ich ein Screenshot dran gehangen.
Gruß Andy
screenshot fehlt…
Servus Felix, nachdem ich jetzt 2 Jahre mit großen Pause machen musste bin ich wieder dabei. Schön das die Reaktivierung meines Accounts so schnell / Automatisch ging. Danke !
Nun habe ich festgestellt das meine Lieblingskarte Alps vom 28.03.2025 Unicode (Betriebssystem W10) Garmin Oregon 450 und Edge1030 leider ein ganzes Stück kleiner ist als meine Alten ALPs karten von 2020 (2022 hatte ich leider schon gelöscht). Was ich meine die Alten Alps karten gehen bis kurz vor Ingolstadt die neuen fangen erst am Südende vom Starnberger See an. Da ca. 90 % meiner Touren zwischen München (Wohne südwestlich von München) und Südtirol erfolgen war das sehr sehr Praktisch mit immer nur einer Karte. Jetzt brauche ich dann zwei und die Deutschland und Alps oder DACH und ALPs bekomme ich nicht aufs Garmin. Kannst du den nördlichen Alpenrand wieder nach Freising verlegen oder so…????
Und noch eine Frage ich wollte mit der Höhenliniendatei von Europa arbeiten . Neu gezogen vorgestern. Da Wird beim entpacken aber keine contours_europexxx.img erzeugt. Ist die zu groß ? mache ich was falsch?
Danke Für deine Hilfe , schönen Abend
Gruß Andy
Hallo Andy, Die Alpenkarte hat Geofabrik geändert, um die südfranzösischen Alpen draufzubekommen die vorher gefehlt haben, dafür fehlen jetzt halt die Voralpen in Deutschland. Ich kann das nicht ändern. Du musst am besten Alps und Auschnitt der DACH aufs 1030 senden (mit Mapinstall erstellen).
Zu den Höhenlinien, welchen Download genau? Eigentlich sollte der hier gehen: https://openmtbmap.org/?s2member_file_download=20m/gmapsupp/gmapsupp_contours_europe20m.7z
Aber ja es sind zwei gmapsupp.img in dem Downlaod – da die 4GB Grenze gesprengt wird. Wenn du eh schon Platzprobleme hast – erstelle dir lieber mit MapInstall von der Europa Höhenlinienkarte only (beim installieren die Option wählen unter Windows, bzw auf OSx per info.xml) einen passenden Ausschnitt. Das wäre auch die beste Option für die Karte an sich – sprich erstelle dir mit MapInstall einen Ausschnit der Gegend die du benötigst aus der Europakarte.
Hallo Felex, muss mich doch nochmal bei dir melden. Habe mir die Eigene Karte die ich brauch mit alpen und Süddeutschland aus der Europakarte mit Mapinstall gebaut. Die neu ALPS/EU Karte funktioniert auf meinen Garmin Oregon problemlos. Vom EDGE1030 wird diese Karte aber gar nicht gesehen und geht auch nicht. Eine weitere kleine Karte gmapsupXX.img aus deinem Download (z.B. Slovenien) zusätzlich auf der gleichen SD Karte wird aber vom Edge1030 erkannt und funktioniert. Was habe ich falsch gemacht? Habe die neu erzeugte Karte direkt auf den SD-Kartenleser gesendet wie empfohlen weil es schneller geht. Habe auch schon in deinen Hinweisen gesucht. nichts gefunden. Danke Andy
Hast du die non unicode Europakarte genommen? Du darfst die Karte nicht doppelt ans 1030 senden. Evtl sind am 1030 auch zu viele Karten drauf. Entferne Mal alle anderen Detail Karten. Basemap und co natürlich drauf lassen.
Ich habe die Unicode von Europa genommen. Ich habe auch nicht doppelt gesendet sondern verwende die SD Karten für beide Geräte . Alle anderen Karten habe ich beim EDGE runter genommen nur die neue als einzigste . Dann hat er gar nichts nur schwarzen Hintergrund.
Die unicode läuft nicht am 1030. Du brauchst die non unicode
Okay . Danke. Ich habe mich bisher immer aus dem Unicode Ordner bedient. Für beide Geräte das waren aber immer Länder wo es gepasst hat weil wegen der Schrift nicht relevant. Jetzt bei gesamt europa passt es halt nicht. Ich probiere es.
Hallo Felix,
<Garmin hat kürzlich eine sehr fehlerhafte neue Firmware für Edge 1040, 840 und 540 veröffentlicht. Diese neue Firmware (21.x) weist zwei große Probleme in Bezug auf die <Kartendarstellung auf. Daher haben alle Karten die ich seit 02.06 veröffentlicht habe hierfür eine Änderung.
Ich habe ein Edge 1040 mit Software 20.19. Gilt obiger Hinweis noch oder kann man auf die Version 24.x updaten?
Danke und
Gruss,
Be
Gilt nicht mehr, aber die neuen Firmwares sind eher bug belastet was Stabilität betrifft. Ich würde bei 19.x oder 20.x bleiben wenn du die neuen Funktionen nicht benötigst.
Hallo, habe mich nochmal durchgerungen zu verreisen und daher das jahrelange nun ausgelaufene Abo nochmal um 1 Jahre weiter bezahlt. Um an die Gmapsupp.img zu kommen die ich direkt auf dem Garmin laden und nutzen kann.
Aber leider funktioniert das jetzt nicht, weil ich kein Gmapsupp.img für die Länder Indonesien und Malaysia finde.
Was tun ?
Die ich zum rooten auf dem Garmin Drive 51 und etrex 20x nutzen möchte.
Soll ich den Non Unicode Download oder den Unicode Download für die Länder Thailand und Philipienen für diese Garmin Geräte benutzen ?
Danke für die Unterstützung.
Doch, die gibt es. Malaysia, Singapore Brunei ist eine gmapsupp.img – Indonesia separat. Du hast wohl unter Englische Karten geschaut, da all diese Länder aber primär Latein verwenden, gibt es nur die lokale Standard Version. Es gibt daher auch nur eine Non Uniocde Version, und keine Unicode Karte. Die gibt es nur wenn Latein nicht die Standard Schriftart ist.
aja, und die Höhenlinien dann natürlich separat als gmapsupp.img – nicht drauf vergessen.
hi, i cannot find Turkey map. It doesn’t seem to be listed in Asia section. thanks
Look under Europe. I keep the same order as on geofabrik where I get the underlying osm data – and it’s more sorted by political/cultural adherence – hence Turkey is under Europe even though only small parts of it are geographically in Europe.
thanks for the reply, I checked in all the sections and it doesn’t seem to be in any list
Look
There is only standard version. Turkey uses Latin alphabet so no English version or special non unicode version
thank you so much, stupidly I didn’t think to look in the standard version. rookie errors, thanks again and congrats for the work you do for the maps
Hello, I did not find the map of Iraq.
It*s listed under Asia. According to the alphabet just below Iran.
Schonest weinachten Felix!
Vielen Dank, Dir auch.
OK
guten Morgen Felix
Ich habe (meins) für dich repariert. Die fertige Karte wurde von BaseCamp nicht erkannt. Ich habe gmaptool verwendet, um das Problem zu beheben. Vielleicht möchtest du dasselbe mit der zum Download verfügbaren Karte machen, damit sich nicht jemand anderes die Haare raufen muss, um eine Antwort zu finden.
Bei mir am edge 1040 läuft die gmapsupp.img Karte (mit gmaptool kann man keine Adressen suchen wenn man damit erstellt, das geht nur mit mkgmap). Warum es bei dir nicht läuft – weiß ich nicht.
yes thats the map I have downloaded- same result
no problems for me for the Basecamp version – and I’m sure the gmapsupp should be identical:
best remove all detailed maps from your device – maybe on the device you run into another problem – like too many maps.
muss eingeschneit werden …
and as you try to get more detail- use Basecamp at various ‘lowest’ details to highest-
Map shows a few roads then nothing-
Alles ist weiß ohne Details- Windows 10 und meine Garmin-Geräte (alle 4 anderen) haben sich sehr bemüht, aber mir das gleiche Ergebnis gegeben – nichts-
No idea what you mean by Liegt es daran?
The map downloaded is Central America but as you can see the results are poor to not useable- I redownloaded it today after deleting the older one to check but the result is the same. See previous pictures
Because it’s the wrong map. Honduras isn’t on the south america map but on the central america continent map.
Hello Hello Felix
Wo bist du? :0)
sorry, für späte Antwort. Das sieht so aus als ob da nur die Übersichtskarte ist. Aber Honduras gehör eigentlich zur Central America Karte. Liegt es daran?