#How to make custom maps for garmin gps software#
I also tweaked the software settings to get the images to come out just right. I had to choose a zoom level for the map so I chose 14 & 16 which apparently are the most common levels. It’s not the most user friendly product in the world, but once you get the hand of how it all works, it worked quite well. Now, although I don’t entirely understand how it all works, I was able to spend considerable amount of time playing with this software to find out the best way to get the crisp images onto your GPS. It took a little playing but I did get it eventually. The key now was to try and get this kind of map and detail onto my Garmin device. I can see there from this map, I have a lot more detail in the actual satellite imagery than I did with Birdseye. This one is actually taken from the Microsoft Virtual Earth map which was a little bit clearer than the Google Earth map but not by much. The image you see here is a zoom in on the same Dieppe traffic circle I mentioned in my Part I article. There are some limitations but for this exercise, it was extremely easy. This functionality allows you to create a map overlay which sits on top of your regular map. Garmin introduced the ability to create map overlays not that long ago. It has the ability to create Magellan maps, OziExplorer maps, Touratech maps, and last but not least Garmin Custom KMZ overlay maps. Once you have all of the areas added to your Atlas, you simply choose the “type” of output you want to create. It’s a neat way of keeping them collected together. You can pick as many different locations as you want and simply add them to a single Atlas.
You then have the ability to “add” the selection to your new “Atlas”. In this screenshot, I zoomed in to Moncton and selected a large area of the city. You choose the source for your map information and then simply navigate to where you want to snag the images from.
Mobile Atlas Creator (which I’ll refer from here on in as MAC) allows you to create various types of maps using a whole multitude of sources, including both Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth.
After a post on the Garmin Oregon Wiki page, I was pointed to Mobile Atlas Creator which would turn out to be the best thing I could have found. I knew of software products that could create maps such as OziExplorer but I had also heard that Garmin had released something for creating custom maps for Garmin units. Since I was quite unhappy with the solution Garmin had presented, I decided to go out into the world wide web and attempt to see what others had done.
#How to make custom maps for garmin gps series#
In Part I of this series on Satellite Imagery, I talked about the use of Garmin Birdseye and how it left a lot to be desired.
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