Oct 12, 2015 - This tutorial instructs you how to open the maps you have downloaded or purchased in Garmin BaseCamp. Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be copied, in whole or in part, without the written consent of Garmin. Garmin reserves the right to change or improve its products and to make changes in the content of this manual without obligation to notify any person or organization of such.

Welcome to - Get the most popular maps for mountainbiking worldwide! Over 4000 users daily come here to get informed Get maps that guide you over the best trails, instead of getting lost. So here is why you should trust Openmtbmaps: • 6 Different layouts: Five high contrast layouts optimized for the different Garmin GPS (.e.g different layout for hiking than for mtbiking or for cycling). One layout for Desktop use. See the or or • Type of Way/Street? Clear differentiation between all street types. The maps display info out of the eyes of a biker / hiker.

Downhill arrows for steep singletracks • MTB & Hiking & Cycle relevant information like drinking water, alpine huts, guideposts. Routes shown prominently besides (not instead of) the streets differentiated by colour for type and based on importance • Navigation - Advanced for mtbikers, cyclists and hikers. You can and tracks on your desktop using the same maps as on your. All maps come with • Easy in Garmin Mapsource, Garmin Basecamp or Qlandkarte GT to • Contourlines integrated nearly worldwide based on the excellent viewfinderpanoramas.org data. Much higher quality in mountainous regions than the generally used void filled SRTM3'. • Participate? Map Incomplete or wrong?

You can and add missing to. I update the maps weekly, so every week the maps become better and more complete! Join over 300.000 mappers worldwide to add ways or fix data yourself. • Good Documentation because everything you want and need to know for using the maps is found on Openmtbmap.org. And the maps.

• Velomap: If you're mainly cycling on-road or use your race bicycle, then I offer the similar. The has a focus on cycle friendly roads and cycle ways / cycle routes.

As it shows less detail, it is quicker to understand. Who can use the openmtbmap? The maps offered here are of course, currently primarily used by Garmin GPS users and mountain bikers in general, but you don't need to have a Garmin GPS to use them. An opensource and freely available Map Viewer can display them in all their pride, and also if not owning a Garmin GPS or buying maps from Garmin you can install Garmin Mapsource to your computer and enjoy autorouting like you have not enjoyed before. Besides third party progs like Glopus or Garmin Mobile XT can be used to display the openmtbmaps on your PDA or phone. About openmtbmap.org I started working on OSM because I saw the chance that for the first time in history there could be maps by mtbikers for mtbikers.

However there was not yet any structure to classify ways so I developed the as well as many other attribute keys for OSM. But hardly anyone used them, so I started to create maps that showed the tags, and after a few month put up openmtbmap.org to make the maps available for everyone to download. Currently around 2000-5000 unique visitors enjoy openmtbmap.org every day (as measured with Google Analytics). Openstreetmap gives us the ability to really create mtb focused maps – like no other map provider has ever done. Therefore I call on you – to get engaged and start participating like over 300.000 people worldwide already do!

UPDATE - see here for Instructions: Sorry this is just a quick message - but because it's kinda important and may cause a lot of confusion - I send out this short newsletter. Garmin released a new version of Basecamp - 4.7.0 - in order to remove many features that were not in accordance with the GDPR regulation. Actually it's not that 4.6.2 is wrong here - it's that there were a few web services - that Garmin switched off - and those were interlinked into 4.6.2 - so that actually in 4.6.2 some functionality is not working anymore - I could on a quick check however not discover any actual difference otherwise in relation to the GDPR regulations - so 4.6.2 is no different in this regard to 4.7.0 - well and new privacy page/EULA of course). Now the problem is - Basecamp 4.7.0 also ships an updated version of Garmin MapInstall - and that version is broken in so far that it does not send any maps in.img format anymore!

This also applies to original garmin maps. I have some old Garmin Topo Austria and Garmin City Navigator map - that cannot be sent anymore. Also any of the garmin demo maps converted into.img format from gmapsupp.img do not transfer anymore. If you are a Windows user and upgraded to 4.7.0 you have 3 choices: a) Downgrade to Basecamp v 4.6.2: it can be found here: ATTENTION - you need to first deinstall Basecamp, then Install Basecamp 4.6.2. If you simply install 4.6.2 without deinstalling 4.7.0 Mapinstall is not correctly downgraded. B) download the OSx (Mac) version of all openmtbmaps/velomaps in.gmap format. You can install them by placing them into the C: ProgramData GARMIN maps mtbCOUNTRY.gmap respectively C: ProgramData GARMIN maps veloCOUNTRY.gmap and better read the OSx tutorial too: respectively for Velomap users here: c) do not send any.img format maps until Garmin releases a new version without this bug.