Garmin Edge Touring

LindaW · Post by **LindaW** » 22 Mar 2015, 8:53pm

Hi, I have this to help navigate us through France. It comes loaded with open street maps and unsure whether I need to buy the full Garmin Navigator maps.
I've used in the UK and find it a bit challenging as not all roads are shown!
Any advice?

robgul · Post by **robgul** » 22 Mar 2015, 9:46pm

I wouldn't waste money on the Garmin maps.

The stuff here https://www.velomap.org/ is pretty good - and free. I've dowloaded a load of maps for our tour this June which takes in France, Luxembourg, Germany, a little bit of Holland, and Belgium.

It's a bit of a fiddle if you need more than one country (you'll need separate SD cards for each one as the filenames are all the same in the Garmin ... but SDs are cheap as chips nowdays)

To save the hassle of downloading if you PM me I can send you, say, the France file

Rob

deckertim · Post by **deckertim** » 23 Mar 2015, 6:45am

I don't think the file naming is an issue on newer garmins. I have an 800 and an etrex20 with several maps. I can't check at the moment, but think they just need the same file extension .img

LindaW · Post by **LindaW** » 23 Mar 2015, 7:20am

Thanks both, I'll pm you my email address Rob

LindaW · Post by **LindaW** » 23 Mar 2015, 7:23am

Ps, how do you pm on Taptalk? !!!!
Ignore this, now found, not terrible intuitive!

tatanab · Post by **tatanab** » 23 Mar 2015, 7:25am

^^^ True. I have an 800 with 4 map sets on it.

For Europe http://www.openfietsmap.nl/ has a better appearance than OSM (for me) and shows cycle tracks etc. All of Europe is on 3 files, Western Europe is one file and covers France/Spain/Portugal/Belgium/Holland http://www.openfietsmap.nl/downloads/europe Free to download.

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