How to get open street maps to edge 1050 ?

If you have a map file with ending .img than just copy that map to /Garmin/maps.

Hello McInner,

is the quality of obenMTBMaps in your opinion similar to the Garmin Topo Maps ?

I just want to change to obenMTBMaps; yesterday I made a tour with the Garmin Central Europe Map (not German topo) and I guess that there aren't all trails on it. I drive in Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

I never used TOPO maps. So, I only can speak about Garmin Central Europe versus openMTBmaps (I‘m using „Alps“ - living in Austria).
I prefer openMTBmaps. All trails are included - marked with different colors and pattern. Maybe it is the optimum in my region (eastern Alps - near Vienna), because the author of openMTBmaps lives in Vienna.

Simply try it! Download „Rheinland Pfalz“ map from openMTBmap.

https://openmtbmap.org/de/download/

Edge map download:
https://openmtbmap.org/de/download/gmapsupp/

(Chose „non unicode“)

PS: I prefer to download the Windows version. You‘ll get an EXE file which installs the map on your PC - ready for use in BaseCamp.
The download includes service programs to change different appearances ( typ files ). With Bascamp you can then export an IMG-file to a SD card in your desired appearance to copy it to your Edge.

Yes, there is more to know!
The 1050 now uses MTP as the USB data protocol. This means there is no longer a network drive letter, which various maps require, such as velomap.org or openmtbmap.org.
As a workaround for this problem (v9.11), you have to use the “Android File Transfer” tool and then copy IMG maps, fit files, etc., as before.

OpenMtbMap is paid, it's a shame.

I prefer UtagawaMap or OpenTopoMap which are free

w0lfgang said:

The 1050 now uses MTP as the USB data protocol. This means there is no longer a network drive letter, which various maps require

I got around this problem by copying the contents of the SD card from my old Garmin 1000 to a 32Gb thumb drive, with GarminDevice.xml in the /Garmin folder, and when I mount that on the PC, Basecamp thinks that's a Garmin device, and I can install maps from Basecamp to the thumb drive, and then copy the .img map files from the /Garmin folder on the thumb drive to the /Garmin/Maps folder on the 1050. I do this with the maps from velomap.org, but the process should be identical for maps from openmtbmap.org.

@mcinner1

With your help it was easy to install the OpenMTBMap of germany to basecamp and on my Edge 1050.

I am curious what it looks like on the edge display. I will start my ride just in a few minutes.

Kind regards Stefan

If you have questions, contact me via PM!

mcinner1 said:

The download includes service programs to change different appearances ( typ files ). With Bascamp you can then export an IMG-file to a SD card in your desired appearance to copy it to your Edge.

I want to try to use this map on edge, but I don’t quite understand how to operate this part. Can you elaborate more? Thanks in advance.

tjj1664 said:

I want to try to use this map on edge, but I don’t quite understand how to operate this part. Can you elaborate more?

As far I remember - you live in Japan…?

Assuming you have Basecamp on a WIN PC:
goto website  https://openmtbmap.org/en/download/

Tap the link „Here“ in line „Win and Linux download“
Tap „OpenMTBmap“ (right of „Instructions“)
Tap „Standard - Local language maps“
Tap Asia -> Japan

Download Japan Map. You‘ll get an EXE file to install on your PC. After installation you can chose the map in Basecamp.
From Basecamp you can export a IMG map to a SD card and then rename it and copy to your Edge.

….or download the Edge ready IMG map. But then you cannot play with layouts (typ).