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General Discussion / new with Tread overland need h...

Last post by donb - December 14, 2024, 01:27:09 AM

I am new to off road gps, my friend bought a tread overland and I was impressed with how bright the screen is, I was using a samsung tablet and it was very hard to see as the screen would wash out in the Yuma AZ desert which is where we ride so I bought a Tread overland.I am unhappy that many of the trails we ride do not show up on the gps, my friend has a 24k topo southwest mapping sd card from Garmin and he is able to see the trails we ride, well most of them but not all. anyway I bought a SD card and copied his sd card, well that did not work and so I contacted garmin and ask if after spending 1300 dollars on a fancy gps do I still need to spend more money and buy their topo sd card, the answer was yes. dang. so I started searching which brought me to here.
I found a file called Arizona topo and downloaded it into my mac computer and think I have it as the map garmin explorer or base camp is showing, the problem is I am still not able to see the trails we ride. can anyone help me with what i have to do so I can see the trails we ride in and around Yuma AZ. thank you in advance for any and all help
Don

#22

General Discussion / Re: Zumo XT beginner

Last post by Boyd - November 22, 2024, 02:25:59 AM

It's unfortunate, but I don't think you will get a lot of help here. Most of the people who come to gpsfiledepot these days are just spammers that I ban from the site. There's an occasional post by somebody who needs help with the maps here, but that's about it. Sites where people discuss GPS devices have mostly all gone away, killed by the smartphone. I was a moderator at GPSReview for many years, which would have been a good place for your question. Then one day the site was just gone, apparently, the company who owned the site simply "pulled the plug" wiithout even telling the staff.

Let's see if you get any answers. In the meantime, you might get more help at a site like this

https://advrider.com/f/

#23

General Discussion / Zumo XT beginner

Last post by DBM - November 22, 2024, 01:25:50 AM

I really hate to admit this but....I have had a Zumo XT for almost a year now, but never took the time to learn how to use it. I just keep the map on so I can read the street names and see the upcoming curves in the road. All this time I have been riding trails and loops that I already know. All that is about to change in 2 weeks when I am leading a small group in 3 different WMA forests areas that are all new trails. I have printed paper maps for each section, and highlighted the planned routes on the maps.

My plan is to stop at the entrance at each forest, set a waypoint, then go exploring the planned route. I would like to record the track we are taking on the GPS so that we can just turn around and back track the same way we came in if we decide that is our best way out. Seeking advice for a total newbe. I do plan to really learn how to use this XT in the near future.

#24

Site Support / Re: Download link for Canada W...

Last post by Curtez - November 21, 2024, 09:42:16 AM

I literally made an account (and this is my first post) regarding the mac files not downloading. I was using Brave browser and Chrome: both do NOT work for mac files. SAFARI browser DOES work for the mac downloads.

#25

Site Support / Re: Download link for Canada W...

Last post by revyd - November 14, 2024, 08:45:30 PM

Thank you. Usually chrome is the workaround for safari. It works perfectly.

#26

Site Support / Re: Download link for Canada W...

Last post by Boyd - November 14, 2024, 11:47:03 AM

Assuming you're talking about this map?

https://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/831/

Works fine for me on the Mac with Safari. Does not work with Chrome - nothing happens, no error message. See this thread for a Chrome work-around if you prefer it

https://forums.gpsfiledepot.com/index.php/topic,5318.0.html

#27

Site Support / Download link for Canada West ...

Last post by revyd - November 14, 2024, 10:17:56 AM

I've been trying to download the updated topo map for western Canada, but the mac link does nothing. The windows link works but of course it won't work on my Mac. Help!

#28

General Discussion / Re: Satellite Imagery for Garm...

Last post by Boyd - November 02, 2024, 08:42:26 AM

IIRC, the GPSMap 64 series has been discontinued. For satellite imagery, you would have needed a Birdseye subscription, but as discussed above, Garmin has discontinued Birdseye for these older devices.

So, I really don't think there are any options for satellite imagery on your device unless you make them yourself. If you do, they will be very limited in terms of how large an area you can cover. But here are Garmin's instructions for making simple maps of this type

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=cVuMqGHWaM7wTFWMkPNLN9

Also see this thread. I have not used this myself and don't know how well it works.

https://forums.gpsfiledepot.com/index.php/topic,5086.0.html

#29

General Discussion / Re: Satellite Imagery for Garm...

Last post by Raihan1980 - November 02, 2024, 04:18:27 AM

Hi, I am new to this GPS forum/Tech, I have a Garmin 64sx and would like the closest satellite map for Trinidad W.I. Any assistance or any map of Trinidad? I have PR BAYAMON installed already

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General Discussion / Re: Satellite Imagery for Garm...

Last post by Boyd - September 11, 2024, 12:32:39 PM

The answer is not good (I have an old Montana 600 myself). It used to be that you could create your own Birdseye imagery with third party software, but you had to "trick" Garmin into thinking it was "real" Birdseye. This was easy to do, as long as you had an active Birdseye subscription from Garmin.

But now the problem is... you can't get a subscription from Garmin, so even if you create your own imagery you will not be able to authorize it because that depended on Garmin's servers.

You can still make Garmin "Custom Maps", which are .kmz files that can be created directly with Google Earth for small projects or with special software for somewhat larger ones. This could be a big job for someone who is not familiar with making maps however.

But - putting that aside - Garmin only supports small maps of this type, presumably because they didn't want it to compete with their own Birdseye. The Montana can accept a maximum of 600 .kmz image tiles, and each can be no larger than 1024 x 1024 pixels.

So - it depends on how high you want the resolution to be. For very high res imagery at 1 foot/pixel, each of those tiles would be 1024 x 1024 feet. A block of 5 x 5 tiles would be about equal to one square mile. Do the math... that's 25 tiles per square mile which would give you a total of 24 square miles coverage for the 600 tile limit (an area 6 miles x 4 miles, for example).

If you use lower resolution imagery, you could cover more area. But it's still very limited and only suitable for mapping small areas. The other problem is that this kind of map performs very slowly on the gps.

You will find some existing maps in this format here at GPSfileDepot, but not a lot. Go to the map page here and check the box at the top that says "Garmin Custom" then click the Filter button. That will give you a list of everything available, including several of my own that I made many years ago when Garmin first introduced this kind of map.

https://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/state/all

Aside from that... yeah, Garmin really extended the middle finger to everyone who owns one of these expensive older devices when they discontinued Birdseye.