Thanks Simon. Are the Openstreetmaps as useful as the native Garmin maps. For example, if you are at the base of Big Ben, can you ask to locate the nearest pub - assuming it wasn't within eyesight :>) ?
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:08 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Openstreetmap & Garmin ? > > > My children are heading off to London, so I'm thinking of downloading > the > > London map from openstreetmap to my Garmin Nuvi 255w. From some brief > > research it looks like this is possible, but has anyone actually done > it? > > If > > so, how well do non Garmin maps work in a Garmin device? > > > > > > Download maps is relatively easy (I've done it on etrex using serial > connection and 'sendmap'). > > Everything you want/need to know is here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin > > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
