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Boyd - Thanks this might be useful for some things.  But my primary goal here is to get the Arizona topo from this site on my Android and that map is not available as KMZ.

BobT - Thanks, I did find your directions and that is how I got Orux to display the Arizona topo.  Yes, it did have many labels that were annoying,  but it also did a poor job at rendering and some trails were so far off that they showed up on the wrong side of the roads.  The same map looks great in Basecamp.

Well, I tried Orux on the Arizona topo.  The results were terrible.  I did get it to display but the map is so coarse that it is hard to even recognize familiar areas.  And the trails are not even placed correctly.  An inaccurate maps is worse than no map at all.

I use the Alpinequest  app mostly for hiking.  It has many maps available but none that are as good as the Arizona topo map on this site.  If you do try Alpinequest, try the USAtopo and the OSM maps with contours.  Those are the best maps I have found for hiking.

Again, I would hope that the mapmakers would provide these excellent maps in a more open format.

Is there any way to use the excellent map files from this site on an Android device?

I would really like to use the Arizona topo on my android tablet.  I do have a Garmin GPS, but the screen is so small that it is easy to lose context.  I have found many android map apps and some are quite good but they won't use the Garmin format maps.  Yes, they have many nice maps, but none compare to the topo maps from this site.

Some suggest Oryxmaps, but it seems that no one can actually get that to work and even the developer claims that he has no idea how to view Garmin maps.

I would think that whoever created these Garmin maps could create another format that could be read by more apps.

Thanks for considering this and many thanks for the great maps on this site.