I see some room for confusion here. I think on Garmins the basemaps "built-in maps" are not vector format but raster format .img files. So the short answer is you can't dump them on the way you're trying to, you need to convert them.

You'll need to look for a tool like this http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mkgmap but meant to work with the formats your using and the platform you're on.

Hope that helps,
Alex

John C. Tull wrote:
I've used gpsbabel for moving points, tracks, and routes to/from a Garmin GPSV.

http://www.gpsbabel.org

John

On Aug 7, 2008, at 5:17 AM, John Stevenson wrote:

I have digitised some points, roads and a lake in GRASS and would like to be able to upload them onto my Garmin Etrex Legend.

I have been able to use v.out.ogr format=kml to output the points, and can upload them to the GPS with gpsbabel. However, I would like the roads and the lake to be loaded into the built-in maps. I read a post on the GRASS mailing list archive that mentioned cGPSmapper, but it seems like this only works with ESRI shape files (v.out.ogr again) if you have one of the paid-for versions.

Is there any open source software that can do this? Can GRASS export in a format that can be more easily converted to be compatible with the GPS?

Thanks

John
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