Maps are available Worldwide. They are usually updated every Friday. 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. Thanks to Geofabrik for providing the map data snapshots which I use to create the maps. Thanks to http://viewfinderpanoramas.org for the best DEM (contourlines) available on the net. -- For Copyrights please see the Installer or if you unextract the installer see the file copyright.txt. Besides being shown on (nearly) all Garmin GPS devices - most People will use Garmin Basecamp (v4 or later) or Garmin Mapsource 6.16.3 to show the maps on their Desktop and plan tours/trips. For anyone on the good side of earth AKA Linux - Openmtbmap.org maps are also correctly shown in Qlandkarte_GT - QLandkarte_GT is compatible with all big OS (Linux, MacOSx and well Windows too). Linux users can alternatively install Mapsource 6.13.6 in WINE. The .exe files can be unpacked with 7zip. After unpacking you find instructions for Qlandkarte / Linux use in a .txt file (informations... .txt). For Linux/Unix users there is also a script to unpack the maps, and automatically create a gmapsupp: https://github.com/btittelbach/openmtbmap_openvelomap_linux You can unpack the .exe with 7-zip , ( Linux users use p7zip-full --> see here for more details), MacOSx Users can use "Unarchiver" (requires v3.0 or newer) . After unpacking you find instructions for Qlandkarte / Linux use in a .txt file (informations... .txt). For General Use - Basecamp is much better than Mapsource by now - The only thing were Mapsource is better is selecting parts of maps to send. The only usable Mapsource version is 6.16.3. Mapsource versions 6.14 to 6.15.6 are complete junk. Also note that Mapsource versions prior to 6.16.1 do not show all ways and pathes so they are not really usable. Mac OSx users please use Qlandkarte GT or convert maps and use Basecamp v4 (or newer). Note there are readily converted maps available for most countries at the end of this page. ATTENTION - Basecamp 4.7.0 (or better MapInstall 4.2.0) is partly broken. Best downgrade (or even better never upgrade to 4.7.0) to Basecamp 4.6.2 - see also here: Do Not Update to Basecamp v4.7.0 Beginners Guide can be found here: get started with openmtbmaps Install Basecamp/Mapsource: tutorials/install-mapsource/ Install the Openmtbmap on your PC: tutorials/install/ explains the options of the installer. Send Maps to GPS with Mapsource/Basecmap: tutorials/send-maps-to-your-gps/mapsource/ I recommend to allways send maps to an external data card and not internal memory. (this way if something goes wrong, or maps would be damaged you run less danger of wrecking your GPS). Alternative: Use create_gmapsupp.img.bat and place the newly created gmapsupp.img into /garmin folder on your GPS. Address search cannot be included this way. If you use create_gmapsupp.img_with_mkgmap address search will be enabled, but you need depending on the size of the map quite a lot of free RAM. Send maps to GPS with mkgmap (for Unix users): tutorials/send-maps-to-your-gps/mkgmap/ Mapsource Error / debug Mapsource: There is a problem with the MapSource registry. Please re-install Mapsoures and start again Solve with Mapsource Fix Or with Mapset Toolkit Please also read the FAQ On installation you can choose the layout of the maps. Traditional layout is for Qlandkarte GT, Mapsource and Basecamp and offers a good layout and design for big screens. On the GPS thin, classic and wide or easy or hiking offer high contrast for best orientation while riding your bike or hiking. In order to change the layout - simply run openmtbmap_country_change_layout.exe (this is also linked in your Start --> Programs Folder for each map). This also enables you to quickly change the layout before sending maps to your GPS device, and then quickly change it back for better planning on your desktop. You can adapt the .TYP-files, which are responsible for the layout - and therefore the map colours, to your liking by using http://www.maptk.dnsalias.com/. Do not use http://ati.land.cz/gps/typdecomp/editor.cgi because it is not fully compatible and may corrupt the .TYP-file. The address search is not working consistently. Most problems are due to inconsistent data structures in OSM address data. - General: Autorouting over longer distances on GPS works only with Via Points. Solve with WinGDB: plan-routes-efficiently - Autorouting needs attributes like tracktype, bicycle routes, mtb:scale, sac_scale, mtb routes and others to work well. So keep care to enter those details into OSM. (not all are needed, but enough for me to guesstimate wheter a street is cyclefriendly/mtbriendly or not). - Non Connected ways and overlapping ways without node, this is the main problem and a problem of the underlaying map data - please check here: http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php Only check/enable: "almost Junctions" , "intersections without junctions" as well as "overlapping ways". This helps you to quickly spot the erros. You can then follow the link to Potlatch (or also JOSM is integrated for JOSM users) and quickly correct mistakes! Watch out not to connect ways that are not connected in reality (i.e. a way crosses another on a brigde, here no connecting node is the right solution). - If you use - Windows 2000 you may need to install the "reg" command : Reg cmd at Microsoft. Batches are incompatible to earlier Windows versions. - Note sometimes sea/lakes are missing/emtpy. This is not an issue, but currently not differently possible. It is usually a problem in OSM data. If you want to be notified by email on map updates please go to the frontpage and enter your email address in the subscribe field of the left sidebar. You only get an e-mail when there are changes besides a simple map data update. Map updates are usually every Thursday night / Friday morning. You can look at the server to see the date of map upload. To update the maps, simply run a newer .exe Download. While you can join maps of different countries, routing over the boundary is a bit shaky, and you will have one map overlaying the other with white background. As long as mkgmap cannot create randomly shaped overview maps (currently only rectangles), this problem is not solvable. There is however the possibility to download a Europe map, which will be updated every 4-6 weeks. Get Europe Map here (donation needed): https://openmtbmap.org/support/europe-map/ If you install an Openmtbmap and a VeloMap of the same country with contourlines as separate download (and Spain as well as Canary Islands), you should only send the contourlines once (meaning with either Openmtmbap or Velomap of the country). Else you GPS might not show the maps, or worse not even start until maps are deleted. There are several possibilities. a) Install both maps without contourlines and contourlines separately (install separate contourlines only map option in installer). You have not trouble. b) be careful here: Select the map as usual in Basecamp/Mapinstall, then go to the list of the selected tiles ready to be sent to the GPS, scroll down to the bottom, and unselect the contourlines only tiles from the list. -- This is not a problem with countries where contourlines are fully integrated like Germany, Alps, Austria,...... In general just download the Maps from the first "OpenMTBMap" tab - they are in Unicode if useful. Some maps by default are in Unicode. You can identify them by (Unicode) note behind the name - alll countries/maps not listed on the "Non Unicode" tab are anyhow Non Unicode. If you get the message - "cannot authenticate maps", and you have you have one of the following devices: you will need to download the "non unicode" version of the map instead. So get the map from the "non unicode openmtbmap" tab instead. Only maps of regions where several different scripts are used - are in unicode. If Latin is the predominant script - then of course no unicode map is offered. If your device can display Unicode maps - then of course get the standard version - meaning Unicode. Please comment if you like theese maps or even better tell other people about them (forums, blog about it, twitter, etc…) In case maps break Mapsource or don't work - please write exactly which downloads don't work and the time of download as well as your OS and Mapsource version.. Please also look here https://openmtbmap.org/download/#problems-help-tutorials or in the FAQ Premium maps are only downloadable for people who have a openmtbmap membership. For last map update: please look at recent posts for changes - usually maps are updated at least every 7 days with updates on Thursday/Friday. To check the last update time for a map - just click onto the MD5 link. Most countries, especially the popular ones, have the contourlines already integrated. However for several countries the contourlines are rather large (rule of thumb if contourlines have more data than the maps) and I integrate them, but you need to download them separately (once). The installer will ask for the contourlines file as soon as you activate the checkbox to integrate the contourlines in the installer. You do not need to extract the contourlines - this will be done by the installer (and is only needed once. On updates you don't need to redo it). In general it is fine to only update the map, as I try to change the contourlines as seldom as possible. Continents Africa: Asia: Australia-Oceania: Europe: North America: South America: I have decided to make available all openmtbmaps and velomaps also in gmap format for Mac OSX. Please get them from here: https://openmtbmap.org/download/macosx/ For VeloMap downloads please go here: https://openmtbmap.org/download/velomap/ (note if you are not a OpenMTBMap member - please directly go to www.velomap.org/ In general just download the Maps from the first "OpenMTBMap" tab - they are in Unicode if useful. Some maps by default are in Unicode. You can identify them by (Unicode) note behind the name - alll countries/maps not listed on the "Non Unicode" tab are anyhow Non Unicode. If you get the message - "cannot authenticate maps", and you have you have one of the following devices: you will need to download the "non unicode" version of the map instead. So get the map from the "non unicode openmtbmap" tab instead. Only maps of regions where several different scripts are used - are in unicode. If Latin is the predominant script - then of course no unicode map is offered. If your device can display Unicode maps - then of course get the standard version - meaning Unicode. Note1: if you install the non Unicode version of a map - you will overwrite the Unicode map. You can only have either or installed. Note2: The contourlines are identical for openmtbmap/velomap and unicode or non unicode. You only need to download them once. On updates it's enough to re-download and reinstall the map installer. Note3:Here only those countries are listed - where the standard download is Unicode. If you don't find a country here - look at the standard downloads. Note4 - local language maps of: Sri-Lanka, Nepal and Cambodia are in latin1 - so the local language maps are not very useful. There is no ANSI Codepage available (besides Unicode) that would support the script/garmin units. Israel-Palestine map is in hebrew (so the Palestine area is not useful). Afghanistan codepage is for Dari - Pashto is not supported outside of Unicode. About the Maps - Please Read
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Programs to Display the Openmtbmap
Problems - Help - Tutorials
Change Layout and Contrast of the maps
Current Issues
Notice on Updating Maps
Overlapping maps in border regions
Velomap and Openmtbmap of the same Country -- Problems
Compatibility - Standard (Unicode) vs Non Unicode (cannot authenticate maps)
Feedback
Map Downloads by GWDG
Contourlines Premium Downloads
Openmtbmap (and VeloMap) maps Premium Download in Mac OSx format (gmap)
Non Unicode Premium Maps - Only offered for Non Latin Using Countries/Regions
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Hello,
I have a new etrex 30x and just downloaded the non-unicode maps for Japan and Egypt. Both display as maps, and Egypt in English seems fine (I haven’t tried Arabic as yet). Japan in Japanese showed only occasional latin letters (such as JR in the station name). Ok, so the etrex 30x can’t handle Kanji (I think the old one couldn’t either). But Japan in English has no text whatsoever on the GPS(as far as I can see). In Mapsource, there’s a mix of English, nonsense transliterations and some Kanji.
For instance, in the Kyoto station there is a substation Kintetsu Kyoto (on OSM: name:en Kintetsu Kyoto). On mapsource, this shows as “Kintetsu Kyoto 近畿日本鉄道”. On OSM this is “operator 近畿日本鉄道”
Is this an error in the Japan-non-unicode map? Or did I get the wrong map on the device (there may be some remnants of older Japan maps on my computer, but the SD card is newly formatted and I think I sent the right map). And why don’t at least the latin characters show? Any help appreciated! On the old etrex, I had at least some correct place names plus the pseudo-chinese transliteration to guess at names.
Greetings,
Isa
PS: not so urgent.
I will check it, but English non Unicode should be Latin only. The Unicode English is a mix up.
And the text should appear identical on the device, maybe you use a profile which has labels disabled, but should appear on selection
I downloaded contours with no issue. But the map, the download has failed 3x so far. Maps for Canada. What am I doing wrong?
I successfully downloaded it. Got the map, contour, and dem. I’m in the testing phase! thanks.
if the maps from gwdg (look at the link) fail to download – use a download manager with resume support like FDM (for windows, I’m sure there are good download managers for mac too). Usually the server is very stable – but sometimes (pretty rare – like <1% of time) a bit overloaded.
Hello,
First thank you for the work you do. I am traveling to Europe for a month for a mix of hiking and cycling. I bounced around and tried various different sites for Open Source topo maps of Europe and yours was the only one that works.
OK – it works almost. I have successfully brought the full Europe map with contours into BaseCamp v6.2. In BC I see all of the contours, on my Etrex 30 I do not see contours at all.I am leaving soon and would like to correct whatever issue it is that keeping me from seeing contours on the Etrex. Hope you or one of the other members can help.
Mark
hallo Felix,
gibt es die Karte für Indonesien nur in Landessprache?
Gruß Paul
Ja – da in Indonesien Latein die Hauptschriftart ist – du kannst alternativ auf die Asien Kontinentkarte in Englisch ausweichen (wenn du die Asien Höhenlinien nicht herunterladen willst, da riesig – dann sende die Höhenlinien separat von der Indonesienkarte – und nutze Indonesien auf Englisch aus der Asienkarte ohne Höhenlinien).
Hi Felix,
I have downloaded the US west maps and the corresponding contours as well. Then I have installed the US West maps with the option “integrate contours”. In Base Camp (4.6.2) the contours are visible, but when I send the selected part of map to my device (Etrex 30), I can see no contours. Even if I install the contours as a separate map and then send a selection of the map to the device, there are no contours visible on it (I switched display of all other maps in my device off, only the the US west contours is on) It looks like the contour map is empty.
Thanks,
Tomas.
Hi Tomas – so you mean you can see the map itself – but not the contours? You will of course need to zoom in close enough for the contourlines to appear – but same holds true for the map itself too. If the map itself is visible but not the contours – that would rule out a problem with MapInstall (namely MapInstall still being 4.2.0 even though Basecamp is 4.6.2).
Try to change the profile on your etrex – even though I don’t think you can disable contours in the profile.
When you send map with contours integrated – make sure to never click to select the map – but only drag to select the tiles in MapInstall – and notice the 2 shades – only the darker shaded you have both contours and maps selected (affects region besides where you dragged – where you dragged over always both layers are selected).
To me most likely is you have MapInstall 4.2.0 installed and only downgraded Basecamp.
Hello Tolveczky,
Did you get your contour lines working? If so how? I seem to have exactly the same situation.
Mark
Hi Mark,
yes, I changed the profile and after that it started to work. My original profile was ‘geocaching’. If this profile is active, then no contours are visible. All other profiles show contours.
Tomas.
(copied in here by me- reply via email is not possible to other users)
Hello Tolveczky,
I will give a change in profile a try but at the moment I have the Garmin US topo 24K west on my etrex and it shows contour lines but when I zoom in on the portions of Italy that I uploaded to GPS the are no contours.
the only other possibility is that when sending the map – you did not select correctly – you need to drag over the whole area you need – else you only get contourlines or map data (if you click instead of dragging you only get either or).
Is my mistake that in Base Camp I selected two areas (Scotland and Sardinia) and sent those tiles. Should I select and send only one area at a time – each to a different SD card?
no – you can do so (if you make sure that one area is not overwriting the other/Mapinstall deleting the other) – but you have to select them by drag over the full area you need – never by clicking – and note the different color shade outside the dragged area – it means only contours or map in this part.
Buonasera,
ho scaricato le mappe non unicode per poterle installare su garmin epix, ma una volta installate sul dispositivo mi dice che non possono essere autenticate e non me le legge. che posso fare?
Grazie
Hi Squirrel – you will need the “Non Unicode” version of that map for your device!
Hi, I did the download of “non unicode” map, but after the installation the device said me “cannot authenticate maps”. Why? I use Basecamp, I tried also with the previous version and it was the same. Thanks for your support
then you have not removed the unicode map from your device. If in Basecamp the name is _NU – you know you have the Non Unicode map installed, if it’s _UC it’s the unicode map. Also for maps like europe you need to redownload both mapfiles and installer – not only installer.
I’m trying to combine the australia continental map data (mtbaustralia-oceania.exe) with the contour data (australia-oceania_contours.7z) and create a gmapsupp.img file to copy to a couple of GPS units. I’m doing this work in MacOS, using the script you have hosted on github using mkgmap.
The problem is the files in the contour package are not in the .img format (DEM/LBL/RGN/TRE files) so I can’t just add them. What do I need to do to integrate these contour files in this case?
Hi Robjay, you downloaded the macosx contourlines – you will need the windows contourlines for that script I guess. The script is written by a user here – not me. Also I’m not sure it will work – as it’s well possible you break the 4GB limit – I don’t think the script can handle maps over 4GB (as it would need to split them up).
It’s easier to just use Basecamp and the normal OSx maps.
Ah my mistake, I didn’t realise there were two different sets of contour files. The archive has the same filename so I assumed the contents were the same.
Hi,
nach der Installation der Europakarte habe ich diese mittels MapInstall auf das Navi übertragen und dabei nur einen Kartenausschnitt ausgewählt. Nun sind auf dem Navi (Montana 650) im Menü “Karte Anzeigen” zwei Karten sichtbar, welche sich nur durch ein angehängtes _1 im Dateinahmen unterscheiden. Ist das normal?
entweder es sind zwei Teile – da grö0er 4GB – oder das eine sind die Höhenlinien – das andere die Karte.
Hallo nochmal,
ich kann aktuell keine Karten downloaden. Meldung lautet:
“Karte konnte nicht heruntergeladen werden”. Mein letzter Download war denke ich Anfang des Jahres. Haben sich in den letzten Wochen/Monaten irgendwelche grundsätzlichen Dateien, Verfahren geändert,
die ich evtl. verpasst habe.
Danke für kurze Antwort im Voraus
Freshwood
Nein – ident.
Hallo,
ich kann aktuell trotz mehrerer Versuche de Karte “Central America” nicht herunterladen.
Mledung “Download nicht möglich”. Gibt es einen Tipp ??
Danke vorab
Freshwood
Kannst du andere karten herunterladen? Ich nehme an der Fehler liegt an deiner Firewall, Antivirus usw.
Hello, when installing the us-west maps it gave me this message in a separate window “please open us_west-contours.7z(jpeg attached). I checked the box to include the contour lines when installing. what should I do now. Also it is asking to name the file to open it. should I just select cancel? please help asap so I finish installing. Thank you!
I installed them again and this time checked “install contour lines separately”. it asked again to “please open us-west_contours.7z”. I performed a search of my entire computer but it did not find the file. So I am assuming that the contour files are not being downloaded… please help. Also, the installer will not proceed any further with opening the contour files…
well – the contourlines are a separate download on the download page – you find them in the “contourlines” tab. If you do not download them – then you need to uncheck contourlines
Ok found them. Thank you for the quick reply. Will they be integrated into the map when I download them or will I have to check the contour lines on base camp to see them?
when you rerun the installer – then they will be integrated. You could (additionally) chose to install them as a separate map too however.
Thank you they are installed and up on BaseCamp! One more question; there are no labels on the trails, however if i click on them or hover over them with the pointer the trail name appears. is that correct? or is there anyway to get the label names to appear on the map?
Also, I noticed that the text on street and trail labels is larger on some of the screenshots on your website. I have a new eTrex touch 35t, would the “wide” format be best? If I already downloaded in classic, can I just reinstall checking “wide” then finishing the install?
Thanks for all your efforts to give hikers/MTB’s great maps!
you can try wide – lines are thicker. you can just run the change_layout… .exe from installation folder/start menu (running installer again is okay too – but takes more time). You need to newly send it to the etrex though.
Well there are now labels on all hiking/cycling/mtb routes if the way itself has no labels (since last update). I’m not sure if it makes sense to put labels for all trails/tracks. I rather think it might be distracting.
Hi there, I’ve downloaded the Croatia map and installed it, however on my device (garmin edge touring) it is very very cluttered and hardly readable on wide zoom. I wanted to try different layouts but cannot find them, can you help me?
thanks
Hi Visconte,
if the map is really cluttered – decrease the detail leven on your edge touring – is it maybe set to higher than medium/default?
Changing the layout has to be done by using the change_layout… .exe in the installation folder or linked from start menu.
thanks for the reply, I’m on mac, should I download win maps? There’s no exe in the folder that I’ve downloaded.
No of course not – you will need to download maps from the mac OS x section. Changing the layout is explained here: https://openmtbmap.org/tutorials/install-maps-mac-osx/
non riesco a installare la mappa del west usa
dovrei scaricare le contourlines, mi appare questo messaggio
cosa devo fare? non capisco
Below you find MD5 Checksum and exact File Size to verify your download. If you clicked on MD5 in error – the actual download is by clicking on the country name left of MD5
Windows users how to read… MD5 you can check with many tools e.g. http://www.angusj.com/delphi/md5check_setup.exe
Linux/Mac OSx User can use md5sum or shasum command in Terminal.
MD5 Checksum:
5CE858E4544C69BE6752D53B14C1B3AB mtbus-west.exe
Date last modified and Filesize in bytes
22.07.2018 05:22 845’018’416 mtbus-west.exe
This is not an error message! You are clicking on the MD5 hashfile information – if you want to download the map instead – click on mtbus-west – and not on “MD5”
Danke, kann BaseCamp wieder starten. Ich habe noch nur noch ein Problem, wie bringe ich die Karten auf mein Navi. Irgendwas funktioniert da nicht. Hab hier die nicht Unicode genommen. Habe ein Garmin Edge 1030, mit externer Speicherkarte. Wenn ich in BaseCamp Karte installieren wähle, wird der Vorgang auch laut System erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Leider Zeigt mir das Navi, diese nicht an. Auch der Speicherplatz am Gerät verändert sich nicht. Werde dieses noch au einem anderem Rechner probieren. Oder kennt jemand das Problem?
Danke und Gruß
Lugge
Hört sich für mich so an, als hättest du MapInstall 4.2.0 installiert! Siehe nochmals hier: https://openmtbmap.org/updates/do-not-update-to-basecamp-v-4-7-0/
Schau wie groß die gmapsupp.img ist – ist sie nur ein Bruchteil der Kartengröße – dann liegt es am neuen MapInstall.
Danke!!!
Funktioniert problemlos.
Habe ältere Kartenversion installiert und schon läuft BasCamp wieder.
Scheint ein Problem mit der neuesten Kartenversion zu geben. Bei BasCamp hab ich noch die Version 4.6.2
Das Problem lag nur bei der Höhenlinien als separate Karte – erneuter Download (in 5-6min wird die Version) korrigiert sein – wird funktionieren – bzw wenn du noch die Daten hast – ich hab jetzt hier eine diesmal wirklich korrekte Version der mapsetz.tdb hochgeladen – austauschen reicht:
https://openmtbmap.org/mapsetz.tdb
Habe seit gestern beim Öffnen von BasCamp die gleiche Fehlermeldung.
Wiederholtes Installieren des neuen Kartenmaterials hilft nichts.
BasCamp lässt sich nicht mehr öffnen.
Hier noch ein Bild der Fehlermeldung