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According the website host, the largest source of visitors (from 116 countries so far) to the AdvOSM Adventure Road Maps website is a click on a GPS File Depot link!

34%   GPS File Depot
30%   OSM Garmin Wiki
24%   Direct
8%   Facebook
4%   Google and Other

Every one of the 22 maps is downloaded nearly every day, about 900 a week at the moment, with this regional frequency:

30%   North America
22%   Europe
15%   Africa
9%   Other Western Hemisphere
9%   Central Asia
8%   East Asia
8%   Australia and Oceania

So many thanks, Boyd, for putting up with the spammers and keeping the GPS File Depot lights turned on.

A little off topic, but rather than start another thread, I'll mention that I tried to make a donation from Singapore, and PayPal said "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country." I'm in Thailand at the moment, and tried from here, too, same message: "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country." I'm trying to help, but it seems that nothing related to Garmin maps is ever easy ... Another country list deficiency, but this time at PayPal!

To get around the missing countries problem I will state the names of the countries at the start of each the map description. That way, if someone types say, Malaysia, in the search bar, he will find it immediately. That works fine.

This site is still important, nothing else like it.

I think Garmin blew it by not embracing OSM (e.g. not supporting third-party Unicode maps, but instead blocking them in Zumos and all models after 2016) and not publishing the IMG file specifications. Of course cheap cellphones and wireless data will eventually do to Garmins what cellphones did to cameras, at least in civilized places, but they could have kept sales up a lot longer if they partnered with OSM instead of trying to cripple it. My 2008 Oregon 450 runs maps that a new Garmin won't run because Garmin cranked up the copy protection. That's sad.

I had a look at boydsmaps. Very Impressive.

When he reappears, I volunteer to help him to update the list. It's such an easy thing to do when you have edit rights to the source file. It's the key to the whole website. Good on you to moderate the forums, thank you.

Thanks for hosting this great website. I listed my routable OSM-based maps on it, and am getting multiple downloads from GPSFileDepot every day.

Could I request you to update your country list or tell me how to do it?

Of the 157 countries covered by my maps, I could tag less than half of them because 84 of my countries are missing. Even major countries like Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Turkey, Malaysia and Nigeria are missing. These are the missing countries covered by my maps. Could you please add them to your country list so I can link to them? That will help a lot of people.

Andorra (ad)
Angola (ao)
Armenia (am)
Austria (at)
Azerbaijan (az)
Bahrain (bh)
Bangladesh (bd)
Belgium (be)
Benin (bj)
Bhutan (bt)
Bolivia (bo)
Bosnia-Herzegovina (ba)
Brunei (bn)
Bulgaria (bg)
Burkina Faso (bf)
Cambodia (kh)
Cameroon (cm)
Central African Republic (cf)
Chad (td)
Congo Democratic Republic (cd)
Congo Republic (cg)
Croatia (hr)
Cyprus (cy)
Djibouti (dj)
Ecuador (ec)
Equatorial Guinea (gq)
Eritrea (er)
Estonia (ee)
Gabon (ga)
Georgia (ge)
Ghana (gh)
Guernsey-Jersey (gg)
Guinea (gn)
Guinea-Bissau (gw)
Guyana (gy)
Hungary (hu)
Isle of Man (im)
Ivory Coast (ci)
Jordan (jo)
Kazakhstan (kz)
Kosovo (xk)
Kyrgyzstan (kg)
Laos (la)
Latvia (lv)
Lebanon (lb)
Liberia (lr)
Liechtenstein (li)
Lithuania (lt)
Luxembourg (lu)
Macedonia (mk)
Madagascar (mg)
Malaysia (my)
Mali (ml)
Malta (mt)
Mauritania (mr)
Moldova (md)
Monaco (mc)
Mongolia (mn)
Montenegro (me)
Myanmar (mm)
Nepal (np)
Niger (ne)
Nigeria (ng)
Oman (om)
Philippines (ph)
Portugal (pt)
Qatar (qa)
Romania (ro)
Senegal and Gambia (sn)
Serbia (rs)
Singapore (sg)
Slovakia (sk)
Slovenia (si)
Somalia (so)
South Sudan (ss)
Sri Lanka (lk)
Sudan (sd)
Syria (sy)
Timor-Leste (tl)
Togo (tg)
Turkey (tr)
UAE (ae)
Vietnam (vn)
Yemen (ye)

Thank you in advance!