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yes but they all speak german!!!

curiouser and curiouser.  Kawawa converts the map and puts it into mapmanager.  It is visible in map installer (for the first time), and map installer tells me it is installing the map onto either an SD card or directly onto the oregon (I tried both).  The name of the map is visible on the oregon, but both the name of the map in map list and the map itself are is still invisible on Basecamp!!!

this is becoming a bit Kafksesque

Both - but the Base camp/mapsource installer only seems to be formatted to work in a PC.  I put the gmapsupp.IMG file onto an SD card.  It does not show up on the oregon - but I am not in switzerland so I suppose that's not a surprise.  I just cant find a way to get the map to appear in basecamp

THANKS for your input

PP

http://www.kowoma.de/gps/freieKarten/osmkowomafreizeitkarte.html

Certainly don't want to play with donkey's tails!!

found it!  It makes maps from this site visible in basecamp, but not my swiss map!  Interestingly tho', the swiss map is visible in javawa devicemanager....  Any ideas on why it still may not b visible in basecamp?

Thanks
pp

what is javaWA Device manager?  How do you do this
PP

BTW I am glad !'m not the only one having the problem

from babj16 - I did the three things you suggested.  Basecamp now thinks the sd cards are garmin 450t's - but the maps contained on them are not listed in the basecamp map list.

to boyd - the map names are visible on the map menu on the oregon, and the NC map appears to work on the oregon.  But the maps are not visible on the my garmin devices list on basecamp.  The SD cards appear but when I click on them nothing appears.  The installed basemap appears as does a map (of Scotland) I purchased from Garmin when installed on an SD card

Help!

Thanks.  I think I'm beginning to get through this.....

I downloaded a local map (of where I live) from this website and put it on an SD card and it worked on the device but would not show its content on basecamp either through the SD card reader on the computer or through the device - Basecamp did recognize the name of the card - just not the content.

So I wonder if the map (of Switzerland) that was causing the initial worry did so because in the device it was so far awayfrom where the device knows I am that I could not get it onto the screen (>3000 miles). (My scotland map - a garmin product - does something similar on the device - but this map is visible on basecamp)

So my question is - if all the above is correct, then how to I get an open source map (from your site or elsewhere) visible on basecamp?

Thanks as always for your input.....

PP 

I dont think it is a bad map of disc because I have had the same problem with maps from other sources.  I am wondering if it is because I am using a MAC.  I am formating my SD card w/FAT, and await the outcome with interest (FAT was the closest to FAT32 I could find in MAC disc utilities, unless I a,m missing the point somewhere

HELP!!!!
I have an oregon 450t.  I run a mac computer only.  I downloaded an open source map of Switzerland, and the attached instructions told me I just needed to copy the gmapsupp.img file to a directory called GARMIN on an SD card - and then the map would be seen by my GPS and visible on Basecamp.  Neither happened and I cant make it work.

Help??

Suggestions??

Thanks in advance

PP