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free garmin maps for new zealand
The New Zealand Open GPS Maps Project for Garmin Mapping GPS
they cover all of new zealand and have been put together for free by a great bunch of guys, far better than the maps that you pay 200 quid for from garmin
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Yep, I definitely agree.
I've got the freebie NZ map(s) downloaded onto my laptop's HD, and I have nothing but huge praise for graemewi and his colleagues over on the NZ Open GPS Project site. True altruism (a nice change).
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Wow. Just found this.
Thanks!
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This sounds great, may have to head to NZ again one of these days. Does anyone have recommendations for a cheap Australian set of GPS maps.
Bob
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Tracks4Australia
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Originally Posted by Road Hog
This sounds great, may have to head to NZ again one of these days. Does anyone have recommendations for a cheap Australian set of GPS maps.
Bob
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Hi Bob,
are you thinking of something like this?:
Tracks4Australia
As far as i know these maps are not capable for autorouting but anyway.... quite cheap!
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OSM maps are auto-routing and updated weekly.
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Peter
Thanks for the tip. Did a quick look and will work on it some more tonight. From what I saw the maps are much better than what I had in South America and it says they are free. Is there a catch? Much better than what I got from "Smelly biker".
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OSM maps are built on the wiki principle: users draw maps on a blank slate, meaning they are incomplete, some roads are spot on, some are inaccurate. Other than that I can see no catch.
Be fair and update the map, though.
Smellybiker's Wanderlust: I think one of Bob's contributors has done a lot of work there, but Bob hasn't published the map yet. I don't know why... I haven't given up hope yet.
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Help please?
Hey I just moved to Nelson area and I have a USA Garmin Nüvi 1300. And I own a macbook... i downloaded MacDOC_NZOGPS/ 21-May-2010 23:50 - From: Index of /public However I just dragged the file into garmin gps icon on my desktop... it didnt work i also tried putting it into my garmin folder inside the icon..... um not sure what to do?.... Please help? Thanks Keoni
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I think you need to load them up via the Garmin Mapsource or Basecamp programs.
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