Best Place For FREE Maps For Garmin Edge 800?

Mark Elvin
Mark Elvin Posts: 997
edited September 2012 in Road general
Just got me a Garmin Edge 800 & was wondering where the best place to get the free maps from is please?
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  • tiredofwhiners
    tiredofwhiners Posts: 598
    http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

    1000% legit and completely free.
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    Talkytoaster.
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • Mark Elvin
    Mark Elvin Posts: 997
    Two replies, two different answers.... Antone else?
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  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    torrents...

    :roll:
  • hiho9
    hiho9 Posts: 17
    talky toaster for me too.
  • Mark Elvin
    Mark Elvin Posts: 997
    tiredofwhiners wrote:
    http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

    1000% legit and completely free.

    Trying this for now.

    Does talkytoaster do postcode navigation as thus one doesnt.
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  • tiredofwhiners
    tiredofwhiners Posts: 598
    Fair enough - but who does Garmin navigation on a bike computer using postcodes ?
  • diy
    diy Posts: 6,473
    http://openmtbmap.org/
    http://www.opencyclemap.org/

    or google gmapsupp.img or gmapsupp.zip
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  • tight_git
    tight_git Posts: 57
    Talkytoaster here as well
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    Or you could just purchase city navigator and save yourself a lot of bother. It's only about thirty quid and it does postcodes.
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • Mark Elvin
    Mark Elvin Posts: 997
    antfly wrote:
    Or you could just purchase city navigator and save yourself a lot of bother. It's only about thirty quid and it does postcodes.

    Didn't realise it was so cheap to be honest. Thanks
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    The free maps aren't much hassle, just follow the instructions here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_ ... n/Download
    and it'll be done in 10 minutes.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    Why use an inferior product though, if you can spare a few quid ?
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  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    antfly wrote:
    Why use an inferior product though, if you can spare a few quid ?

    Not inferior, just different imo. I use both, velomap or opencyclemap are useful for navigating via cyclepaths that don't appear on City Navigator.
  • richh
    richh Posts: 187
    tiredofwhiners wrote:
    Fair enough - but who does Garmin navigation on a bike computer using postcodes ?
    I think that only the Garmin City Navigator does this, but to be honest do you really need that feature? I can' think of a single time when I've needed to do that. for me it's always either plot a route on something like bikeroutetoaster and load it in then follow it, or just pressing "go" so that it tracks my progress.

    Are you a courier or something?
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    dodgy wrote:
    antfly wrote:
    Why use an inferior product though, if you can spare a few quid ?

    Not inferior, just different imo. I use both, velomap or opencyclemap are useful for navigating via cyclepaths that don't appear on City Navigator.
    I agree, it's useful for paths and trails, but if you are only riding on the road it's not as good and being guided down a path isn't what you want.
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  • springtide9
    springtide9 Posts: 1,731
    dodgy wrote:
    antfly wrote:
    Why use an inferior product though, if you can spare a few quid ?

    Not inferior, just different imo. I use both, velomap or opencyclemap are useful for navigating via cyclepaths that don't appear on City Navigator.

    Q
    Are there any sites that allow you to download the map *.img files directly for the Edge 800?
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  • richh
    richh Posts: 187
    talkytoaster, as recommended above:

    http://talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm#GPSRs-Only
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    antfly wrote:
    dodgy wrote:
    antfly wrote:
    Why use an inferior product though, if you can spare a few quid ?

    Not inferior, just different imo. I use both, velomap or opencyclemap are useful for navigating via cyclepaths that don't appear on City Navigator.
    I agree, it's useful for paths and trails, but if you are only riding on the road it's not as good and being guided down a path isn't what you want.

    Know what you mean, but some of the paths around here are a shining example to what a cyclepath should be, specifically ones are the Dee River, obviously when you know they're there, you use them. If I was a visitor to the area, I'd definitely want to be guided on them.

    But quite often, you're right, some cycle paths are really just trails and not suitable for a road bike.
  • wormo
    wormo Posts: 30
    Just bought City navigator from Amazon for £25. Know what you're getting.
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Just in case it's not clear from my wittering, you can have multiple maps on your Edge 800, just give them each a unique name.
    No need to decide which to use, put a few on instead.
  • Mark Elvin
    Mark Elvin Posts: 997
    dodgy wrote:
    Just in case it's not clear from my wittering, you can have multiple maps on your Edge 800, just give them each a unique name.
    No need to decide which to use, put a few on instead.

    That's whay I've gone with in the end, try a few.
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