Free garmin basecamp for mac download. Lifestyle downloads - Garmin BaseCamp by GARMIN Ltd. And many more programs are available for instant and free download. This app enables you to create a map based on GPX or GDB files for your GPS and for MapSource/BaseCamp on your computer. For MapSource/BaseCamp on your. With the Topo U.S. 2008 DVD and your Mac or PC, you can download topographic detail to your compatible GPS. You'll see terrain contour, elevation information with elevation shading on the PC, USGS trail names, National, state and local parks and recreational areas, national and state wilderness areas, trails and rural roads; city neighborhood roads, searchable data base of cities, geographic. Garmin Mapsource For Mac Software Garmin RoadTrip for Mac OS v.2.0.2 Allows you to transfer waypoints, tracks, and routes between your Mac and Garmin device and manage your data using your Garmin maps. RoadTrip provides the ability to search for points of interest from the convenience of your Mac and then send the.
Contents
- 1 Convert the maps:
Donate to Openmtbmap - and download readily converted maps
If you don't want to convert the maps, I converted the most popular openmtbmaps / velomaps ready to be used with Basecamp or Roadtrip in gmap format for Mac OSx. Simply look at the bottom of the download page for them (only available to donators)
Don't convert but use Qlandkarte GT
just accept that Garmin programs for Mac OSx are lousy - (well the whole OS is as lousy as Windows, but with fewer people using it, I wont give a damn for it - best treat your Mac hardware with a good OS like Ubuntu Linux instead of junk with nice eye candy).
However Qlandkarte GT is working splendidly with the openmtbmaps, and is easy to learn. Only drawback is, that there is no autorouting support for garmin maps (yet). You only need to extract the maps to a folder of your choice then use Qlandkarte GT.
Don't convert but use gmapsupp.img import by Basecamp
The irony of Basecamp for MacOSx not reading in the standard .img format, is topped up, by the fact that it reads the nearly identically structured gmapsupp.img files.
So use Windows Basecamp/Mapsource or gmaptool or mkgmap or sendmap to create a gmapsupp.img - put it on a external harddisk or flash memory (you could also put it onto your GPS, but than it's slower) and import it into Basecamp. This way you also don't have to actually convert the maps.
Convert the maps:
See several possibilities on how to do it below:
Convert the maps with gmapibuilder
To unzip you can use: http://unarchiver.c3.cx/unarchiver
Convert the maps yourself under Windows with tools provided by Garmin:
Unfortunately you need an Windows installation for converting the maps. Principally you have to:
1. Install the maps with install.bat under Windows (You have to have Mapsource installed)
2. Downlaod, install and run Garmin Map Converter for Windows
3. Downlaod and install the Mapstall/MapManager package to your Mac to complete the migration Garmin provides detailed instructions how to do this http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3897 See also http://www8.garmin.com/macosx/index.jsp
Alternatively you can use Sendmap to transfer the maps to your GPS (see Tutorial (still to be written))
You could also install Qlandkarte GT - you will have to compile it first though. Builds are only available for Windows (plus easy installation on Ubuntu - but probably added into repos soon anyhow).
BTW: As all my maps are published under CCBYSA 2.0 / The new Openstreetmap Licence - you may share your mac map files freely - as long as you contribute openstreetmap.org and openmtbmap.org and stick to the same license. Unfortunately you need an windows installation for converting the maps to 'Mapsource for Mac' aka Roadtrip.
Principally you have to:
1. Install the maps with install.bat under Windows (You have to have Mapsource installed)
2. Downlaod, install and run Garmin Map Converter for Windows
3. Downlaod and install the Mapstall/MapManager package to your Mac to complete the migration Garmin provides detailed instructions how to do this http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3897 See also http://www8.garmin.com/macosx/index.jsp
Alternatively you can use Sendmap to transfer the maps to your GPS (see Tutorial (still to be written))
You could also install Qlandkarte GT - you will have to compile it first though. Builds are only available for Windows (plus easy installation on Ubuntu - but probabley added into repos soon anyhow).
BTW: As all my maps are published under CCBYSA 2.0 / The new Openstreetmap Licence - you may share your mac map files freely - as long as you contribute openstreetmap.org and openmtbmap.org and stick to the same license.
Convert and Install the maps yourself using Mac OSX only (description provided by Tom):
Required software:
Steps:
Garmin Mapsource Maps
Convert the maps using JaVaWa Map Converter (Mac OSX or Windows at your choice)
Garmin BaseCamp is a nice (and free!) software for viewing maps, managing geographic data, and planning routes. There are maps offered by Garmin and there are also free alternatives, usually based on the OpenStreetMap project. BaseCamp for Mac OS X uses a specific format—it’s usually a file ending with gmapi. Sometimes the free maps are not offered in this format, so you first have to convert them. As I always forget how this works, I created this page.
Contents
- 1 OpenMTB maps
- 2 Garmin IMG format
OpenMTB maps
OpenMTBMap is a project based on OpenStreetMap which offers detailed hiking and mountainbiking information. You can download a map for free here. In the following guide I have chosen the Alps map.
Requirements
You will need a Windows computer (sorry, but I don’t know any other way) with the following free tools installed:
Map installation
Copy the downloaded file mtbalps.exe
to the Windows computer and start it.
Click on Next and select Mapsource-Qlandkarte_GT as layout. Choose a directory where you want the map to be installed, e.g., the default one C:Gaminopenmtbmapalps
. You should now be able to see the map in Garmin BaseCamp.
Map conversion
Start Garmin MapConverter and select the just installed map. For the Alps map it is called FAMILY_6528
. For other OpenMTB maps it will be called differently. You should be able to guess the family id by looking at the beginning of the file names in the installation directory of the map. Click Next and select an installation directory, e.g., the default one C:Garmin
. After conversion is finished there should be a directory called FAMILY_6528.gmapi
. This can be directly imported into Garmin BaseCamp on Mac OS X: simply copy this directory to you Mac computer, start Garmin MapManager and install it. Finished.
As a last step, I recommend uninstalling the map on your Windows computer. Go to the installation directory C:Gaminopenmtbmapalps
and execute openmtbmap_alps_uninstall
.
Garmin IMG format
Assume we have a map map.img
in Garmin’s IMG format.
Requirements
You will need a Windows computer with the following free tools installed:
First step (GMapTool)
Copy the map map.img
to your Windows computer. Start GMapTool.
Click on Add Files and select map.img
.
Go to the tab Options, select MapTk, and select the directory where MapTk is installed.
Go to the tab Split. Select some empty directory where you want to save the parts of map.img
created by GMapTool.1 Select Compile preview map and enter some name describing your map. Select Set mapset FID and enter the FID and PID of your map. You should be able to get these numbers when you click on Info in the Files tab of GMapTool. Otherwise, try some random number between 100 and 9999 for FID.
Now, click on Split all. The process should hopefully finish without error messages. If so, you can close all windows and GMapTool.
Second step (Garmin MapConverter)
Garmin Mapsource Mac Os
With the Windows explorer go to the directory you selected in GMapTool for the splitting process. Right click on install.bat
and select Run as administrator. You should now be able to see your map in Garmin BaseCamp under Windows. Now, start Garmin MapConverter. Select your map (the one with the FID you have chosen above) and click Next. Choose some directory. After the conversion is done, there should be a directory called FAMILY_FID.gmapi
inside the directory you have chosen (where FID is your FID). This file can be used for Garmin BaseCamp under Mac OS X: simply copy it to your Mac OS X computer and install it using Garmin MapManager.
I suggest uninstalling the maps under Windows. Go to the directory of the split process you selected in GMapTool. Right click on uninstall.bat and select Run as administrator.
Garmin Mapsource Download For Mac
- In case you use Parallels, this directory should lie on the Windows drive since in the next step we have to execute a batch script with administrator rights and this does not work on a remote drive.
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