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Can anyone please send me the files?

Hello,

I bought a used Garmin 520. It does not have the basemap image file(s) (gmapbmap) to display maps. When trying to load open source maps as well it is not displaying them, so I am thinking I am missing some files... Can anyone help me, please?

Thank you!

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PeterK_55 over 2 years ago +1

The open source maps should be OK but they need to be in the correct format. Try downloading from this site https://extract.bbbike.org/

Use the latin1 versions of the Garmin maps, (not the UTF8) in whichever…

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0 PeterK_55 over 2 years ago

The open source maps should be OK but they need to be in the correct format. Try downloading from this site https://extract.bbbike.org/

Use the latin1 versions of the Garmin maps, (not the UTF8) in whichever style you want. The "onroad" type omit text so you can have a larger area.

0 8343739 over 2 years ago in reply to PeterK_55

I will give that a try. I only tried the UTF8 format so far...

0 8343739 over 2 years ago in reply to PeterK_55

Well, you rock. That did the trick. Now I just have to find a map that will show the details I want. Thank you so much!