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Missing Maps???

i00
over 3 years ago

My watch came preloaded with Australia maps (which is great).

But when COVID recedes a little and people start traveling again I plan to venture in S.E Asia...
There appears to be NO TopoActive maps for Asia!!??

I did a google and found references to people who had purchased the watch in Asia, and that said maps came preloaded on the watch ... so they must exist!

Also I noticed that on the Garmin store page, there are also NO TopoActive Australian maps; even though they are loaded onto my watch!

Where can I get maps??
And if Garmin has them, it seems a bit silly that they don't want to sell them!

Thanks in advance,
Kris

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to i00

    For the PC https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/ allows you to create virtual drives - if you create one, make it "removable" (Basecamp requires it to be so) - you can create a virtual SD card that fools basecamp to put the maps on. I use it on my PC which doesn't have a SD card slot

  • +1 over 3 years ago

    I am sorry - not all countries have maps available for purchase and download to your watch. Our maps are licensed for our devices so the map owner sets the terms of the map.

    IE: Whether the map can be sold outside of the specific device it was licensed to, able to be purchased and downloaded to devices, 1 map purchased per device, etc. etc.

    I hope you will find either a reasonably priced 3rd party compatible map or a free OSM map that other customers have noted.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

    How do I get these to my watch, and to appear in BaseCamp?

    I ran their installer and installed to "C:\ProgramData\Garmin\Maps" and my SD card (where I can see the map files from my watch in basecamp)... Does this need to be converted to an img file somehow (like the maps on the watch)?... Their installer spits out a .gmap folder!

    Thanks in advance