MapInstall 4.2 (May 2018 update) won't install third party maps

[bnydegger]

Thank You 93ToyTruck! Thank You! Thank You!  Your technique got back for me the capability to load a transparent overlay map of all the hikes (garmin tracks in the 100's) and waypoints (in the 1,000's).  All of these were created using GPX2IMG.  I was so elated that I donated $50.00 to GPSFILEDEPOT to thank them for the maps and forums.

[Boyd]

I am a bit concerned about the gawisp.com/perry links we have been posting. If you just go to gawisp.com (I suggest that you DON'T try this), you are re-directed to a really questionable site. I was greeted with a bogus installer for Adobe Flash when I went there, which is a classic way of distributing Malware. So I think the site has been hacked, and that raises concerns about the files there.

They seem to be OK, but I am not going to post any more links to that site. I just don't trust it, and don't know anything about who owns/maintains the site. You might want to think twice before going there or posting links.

And that is really bad news, because Garmin does not offer their own archive of old software. So what are we going to do? This is a really bad situation. As per another thread, Garmin has officially discontinued Basecamp development. So they are not going to fix this MapInstall problem.

What a mess. 

[Boyd]

Here's another site with older versions of Basecamp, perhaps it would be better to use this in the future?

http://www.gpsrchive.com/BaseCamp/Update.html

[Red90]

Allory Deiss is the page owner.

[Boyd]

Thanks Red, I thought that site was somehow related to GPSInformation.net but couldn't put my finger on it. Here it is

http://gpsinformation.net/allory/garfeat3.htm

[Red90]

I sent him a note and he has fixed it.

[Boyd]

Thanks!

[el69564]

93ToyTruck - I'm trying to figure this all out. I'm not seeing an uninstaller for Mapinstall 4.2.
So do I just delete the Mapinstall directory and run Mapinstall 4.0.4 installer (I also do not know where exactly to get the installer). Sorry, I am not too knowledgeable with all this stuff.
Thank you!

[Boyd]

I never upgraded, so I still have MapInstall 4.04. But I don't see any way to "uninstall" that either (aside from deleting the folder. But, FWIW, you will find archived old versions here

http://www.gawisp.com/perry/map_utilities/

Personally, I would just use Mapsource. You can download version 6163 here. It should recognize all the maps you have in Basecamp.

http://www.gawisp.com/perry/mapsource/

See the Mapsource tutorial here:

https://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-load-maps-on-my-garmin-gps-unit/#mapsource

[Boyd]

BTW, Garmin just updated the Macintosh version of Basecamp/MapInstall last week. I just updated my Mac and the new version of MapInstall works properly. It is also a 64-bit application now.

Hopefully this means a new PC version is coming soon.

[haileyclauson]

Thanks for sharing the information with us. Garmin made some change to map rendering few year ago, and some, old timers used to prefer the old version, but it’s really old, if you are going too far mapsource will not recognize.

I cannot any reason to use the version in my link above. Garmin was discontinued 2011 and does not support.