New – Premium Gmapsupp.img – directly for Garmin GPS units

As Garmin does not seem to fix MapInstall on Windows anytime soon – I’ve now also made all countries except Europe continent and Asia continent (they are too big) available as gmapsupp.img download – which after unpacking – you can directly move onto your GPS device.

Actually for Mac OS x – there is a new version of Basecamp 4.8.3 – which includes MapInstall 4.3.1 beta – and according to first info I have received – that seems to be fine and send maps without problems. If I don’t here of problems soon – I will also update the articles on the website and remove the warnings for Mac OS x users.

 

Directly using gmapsupp.img downloads . you lose 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 […]

March 17th, 2019 | 8 comments

New Contourlines for all Maps – and again – Please Stick to Basecamp 4.6.x

1. Yesterdays/Day before Yesterdays map update of the Europe Map has new contourlines – so especially all OSx users – please do not reuse the old contourlines. For Windows the installer throws an error message anyhow.

It took me a lot of time to iron out bugs in the contourline data, convert it correctly to the needed input formats – fill voids and put it together. The Europe map is now the first to be fully based on Sonnys LIDAR data where available (Italy is new), elsewhere the still pretty excellent ALOS World 30m data – and from 60° northwards voidfilled viewfinderpanoramas 3″ data. Yes except for the Alps the Viewfinderpanoramas 3″ data used to be the common source for all my contourline maps – it’s IMHO crazy how much better the ALOS – and of course LIDAR data is in mountaineous regions. LIDAR data is from laser scanning – of course that will be the best possible to attain, however the ALOS data (downsampled from Alos World 5m data to 30m) is where it’s not voidfilled by SRTM1v3.0 really astonishingly good in my eyes. Often flatter forest areas are put 5-10m too high (but SRTM and viewfinderpanoramas also […]

June 15th, 2018 | 29 comments
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