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GPS for South America

I know they are out there somewhere, but for th elife of me can't find 'em, I have a Garmin GPS Zumo, any body got any ideas?
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What is the question?

If you have a Zumo, use it.

My 2720 was not a great choice, and has given me nothing but problems in a motorcycle application. Love it for the car, though.
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I´m currently in SA with my Zumo 660. I searched high and low for good maps for SA without much success. There are a number of home-grown mapping initiatives where you can download maps and add them to your Zumo. Much of it is better than you will find with the Garmin Worldmap; I have been very disappointed with it.

Here are some places to start:

Smellybiker's Wanderlust Worldmap
Foro - Perut = Perú Ruteable
ViajerosMapas - Actualizaciones
Proyecto Mapear
GPS de Argentina y del ConoSur
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Venezuela

Venezuelan maps:
http://www.gpsyv.net/Venrut2.html
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There is an official Argentina/Chile GPS mapset from garmin that is perfect with street addresses, fuel stops, etc. I used it and loved it. After the rest of central/south america, it was nice to just follow GPS for a while instead of having to actually interact with people

The best idea, IMO, is to look for POIs generated by fellow motorcycle travelers. PM singaporedream and see if he'll send you his tracks. He was very detail oriented and marked every stop/gas station / camp ground.
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Dan, if possible, get the Map Source software loaded to your PC, that way you can use other peoples tracks and do all of your planning on a big screen.
Then, just uploaded your work to the Garmin.
I've never used a Zumo but I can't imagine that it didn't come with Map Source on a disc.
At the moment, I'm just using Bob's Smelly Biker maps, not even close to accurate for Colombia/Ecuador but I'm making it work with other peoples tracks and a paper map.
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GPS Maps for South America

A great source is the website Smellybiker.com. It is a low cost of GPS maps easily downloaded to a Zumo.
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Colombia GPS data, maybe

I just found this torrent file with some Colombia GPS map data, supposedly. Mapa Ruteable Colombia para GPS Garmin : Other > Other - Mininova

I'm in Venezuela at the moment, pain in the arse to download and install it on my GPS using public computers, but I'll do it if someone else can do it first and tell me it's real data! Thanks!

By the way, that free Venezuela data has been really great! (Gpsyv) It almost makes me want to travel in Venezuela for longer... well, not really.
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the missing Brazilian maps

or read Karin's write-up on digital maps for Argentina.

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Ive just bought a Zumo 220. It came with north america and works wonders in the US. However, i just bought and installed the South America maps NT (where i am right now) and it is not acurate at all and worst of all, there are no roads in southern argentina!! Ushuaia doesnt even exist on the device. Ill be going from Brazil to Ushuaia in a week, any solutions anyone?
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Check out Open Street Map. It is a free mapping project for the world. OSM is like wikipedia for maps. I dont know the details for south / central america, but it will be 10000x better than the basemap.

OSM Map On Garmin - OpenStreetMap Wiki

warning: some work required to get the maps installed! I can help if you're stuck.
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Ive just bought a Zumo 220. It came with north america and works wonders in the US. However, i just bought and installed the South America maps NT (where i am right now) and it is not acurate at all and worst of all, there are no roads in southern argentina!! Ushuaia doesnt even exist on the device. Ill be going from Brazil to Ushuaia in a week, any solutions anyone?

Download it from here, it's free

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Hi,

For africa i used tracks4africa which worked very well. Just sell my if someone wants it...

Im in Chile scince two weeks an use the free southamerica map

DE:OSM Map On Garmin/Download - OpenStreetMap Wiki

on my garmin. Its great and works very well

Here you can get one for free as well:

Free worldwide routable Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap

How to use it if wrote here:

Packing List for Expeditions and offroad trips + GPS

LG, Tobi

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