Garmin 520 Maps - anywhere else to download them?
cgfw201
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Usually download maps to my 520 from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
It's a bit old fashioned, but does the job.
I'm off on holiday tonight, so just trying to get the tiles for where I'll be riding. However I'm number 321 in the 'Queue' apparently, with an estimated delivery time of 1.3 days away!
Is there any other site which offers this same service?
It's a bit old fashioned, but does the job.
I'm off on holiday tonight, so just trying to get the tiles for where I'll be riding. However I'm number 321 in the 'Queue' apparently, with an estimated delivery time of 1.3 days away!
Is there any other site which offers this same service?
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mallorca
Then buy an 820.
Cheers. Don't think any of those will work for me though. The wiki site has links to things which look like they will work, but all need an app installing on my computer which I can't do, as it's a work laptop.
Those prebuilt ones are too big, the Spain file is 350mb, needs to be max 50mb.
Let me see if I have the file already, I may do.
6.5MB - updated Feb 14
heroic, cheers.
if it doesn't work etc i have the open street one, its 16mb i can email it to you ? i used it last year.
yep its not a 820 but its pretty good considering, will do turn by turn following a course, for Mallorca you dont need more, its not Devon!
It has no storage and no possibility to add to it. Totally defunct on release.
it's pretty astonishing how little bike computer tech has come on in the last 10 years, particularly if you compare them to the phones we had back then versus now.
Garmin 500 is pretty much 10 years old I think.
New Wahoo Elemnt Bolt launched today, not sure it does anything the original Garmin 500 couldn't do, and it's bigger.
I bought the 520 without really looking much into it, quickly realised my error and switched it out for the 820. Which again, is shite. But it does what I need. As long as you don't need to use the touchscreen, or ask it do do anything beyond lap or start/stop, its OK. Again, the 800 is a better unit than this, and really all the 820 adds of use is bluetooth connectivity so I don't have to plug it in to upload my ride. Nuts.
Meanwhile you have phones that are as powerful as laptops were just a matter of months ago...
Even the way in which you load routes is pretty clumsy - copying and pasting files into a secret location which you need to google because Garmin don't seem to want to tell you. It's 2017 - would a decent front end be too much to ask for?
But enjoy the holiday - a good reminder for me to download the maps well in advance next time I'm going outside my local area.
If this was phones, it would have lead to something like computers integrated into stems/bars as standard by now, you would have thought. Rather than pissing about dragging files into mysterious folders.
However, i do wonder how the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt will impact the 520 market. Details and reviews from the likes of DCR and Shane Miller suggest it can perform almost every feature of the 520 (although not all), plus its cheaper.