Garmin Custom Maps - Using Google Earth
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:20 pm
Garmin Custom Maps — a free and simple process that transforms paper and electronic maps into downloadable maps for your compatible outdoor handheld device. Garmin Custom Maps are created using Garmin map drawing technology to georeference map images and effectively download a printed or electronic map.
Compatibility: Dakota, Oregon, Colorado, GPSMAP 62series, GPSMAP 78Series
Requirements: Google Earth & JPEG file Map which is not PROGRESSIVE Jpegs
- Put a paper Map in your Garmin Outdoor handheld.
- Family Hiking trip at a national park, but concerned that the trail may not be well marked or easy to follow on paper map
- Mountain Biking across rough terrain
- Camping out at a new spot
- Create a Map of the Campus Ground for easy identification and know our way around the campus.
- Download a electronic map and create a CUSTOM MAP on your Garmin outdoor handheld.
- Fun & Educational for Historical Sites Map, you can go back in time and explore that area as it once was and as it appears today, some buildings are still standing, explore the fairgrounds, see existing buildings & imagine those that are no longer there
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/cache/ ... DA6D73F581
Attached 2 *.kmz file for
1. Melaka Historical Map
2. Genting Highlands Walkabout Map - as Google Earth is very Misty and been there many times had problem with GPS position accuracy!
You can open the file with Google Earth, would be effective if you installed into
Garmin Handheld/Garmin/CustomMaps/*.kmz
Compatibility: Dakota, Oregon, Colorado, GPSMAP 62series, GPSMAP 78Series
Requirements: Google Earth & JPEG file Map which is not PROGRESSIVE Jpegs
- Put a paper Map in your Garmin Outdoor handheld.
- Family Hiking trip at a national park, but concerned that the trail may not be well marked or easy to follow on paper map
- Mountain Biking across rough terrain
- Camping out at a new spot
- Create a Map of the Campus Ground for easy identification and know our way around the campus.
- Download a electronic map and create a CUSTOM MAP on your Garmin outdoor handheld.
- Fun & Educational for Historical Sites Map, you can go back in time and explore that area as it once was and as it appears today, some buildings are still standing, explore the fairgrounds, see existing buildings & imagine those that are no longer there
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/cache/ ... DA6D73F581
Attached 2 *.kmz file for
1. Melaka Historical Map
2. Genting Highlands Walkabout Map - as Google Earth is very Misty and been there many times had problem with GPS position accuracy!
You can open the file with Google Earth, would be effective if you installed into
Garmin Handheld/Garmin/CustomMaps/*.kmz