Garmin World Maps????
 

I need help. I live in Kyrgyzstan and want to ride through Central Asia, Russia, and Europe but finding a GPS map that will help is tough. I found the Garmin World Map but cannot find anyone that has used it for Central Asia, Russia and Europe. It would be great if one map did it all, but really, how good would that map be? Does anyone have any experience with Garmin's world map?

Thanks for any and all help.

Mac.

Garmin World Map
 

The Garmin World Map is crap.
Download the maps you need from this site:
Free worldwide Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap

You can choose countries or a complete region. Excellent maps.
Good luck.

Greets

Claudio

Thanks
 

Thanks for your help, Claudio.

Have a wonderful New Year.

Mac

For Russia and Europe you have the normal Mapsource CityNavigator which are as good as it gets with hundred thousands of POI's, from KFC's to Townhall etc. You can download them from any torrent site. Where Garmin doesn't cover the area, OpenStreetMap is indeed the way to go, albeit that OSM does not have a lot of waypoint or POI included. For Northern Asia you can download Colebatch's waypoint file in the sticky's of this thread.

cheers,
Noel

The Garmin world map is a useful tool for viewing the world in one map. But just like a paper map of the world it lacks detail, so for on the ground navigation you need more detail (and the added accuracy that goes with it). [You'd not expect a $100 product (Garmins world map) to contain several $100 products (Garmins city navigator products for many countries) ... if they did that they'd never sell the city navigators .. or the price of the world map would be much much higher.]

OSM uses contributions of POI and tracks to provide the detail on its maps .. so in some places where people have worked on it (locals, tourists and others) the map detail is very good. In other places it is not so good. If you want it better - then contribute the detail you want (you may not be able to for the place you are going, but you can for your home area, and may be a little for the area you want from satellite info).

I used Garmin Zumo 660 from Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Kazakhistan Russia Finland Sweden Denmark Germany Europe and UK.
It was not a help at all except locating POI. All maps were bought for each country. The problem with the maps is that one needs to feed in info in tbe local language. Even a place like Eiffiel Tower could not be navigated to. Only when i got locals to type in the local language in the GPS did i find it.

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Dowloading OCM maps was a help though.

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The Garmin World Maps (GWM) are good for looking at a map routes, and it has a lot of roads that are not on the OSM maps, but you cannot create any routes on it. The best you can do is, as was said above, download the OSM maps.

The OS Maps don't have as many of the roads that the GWM has and you will find that there are some gaps on roads so the routing can sometimes be weird and take you a long way around. When that happens I switch to the GWM and look at the route there, find the gap then split the route at that point and do a track between them.

It's frustrating but at least then you can plan the route you want to do.

EDIT: I should add that I am taking about remote roads here not ones in built up areas, there you will be find with OSM.