Thread: Garmin Free Topo Maps Installs

Originally Posted by faregame

ok since a bunch of us have got Garmin units (few more after the $399 Rino Deal)

How to install TOPO maps

Goto New Zealand Topographic Map - NZ Topo Map

Select the Download arrow (upper left the second one down)
Now the country will have all the map squares in green

Left click on the one you want - select the third option - Garmin / Google KMZ
Download it to your computer

Now connect your GPS - copy the file into the Garmin/Custommaps folder

And enable custom maps on your GPS unit - and bingo should work


However - there is a 100 tile limit (thanks garmin) and each KMZ is 54 tiles in size - so you can only use 1 file at a time

So does anyone have a nice solution to work around this?

Yeah, fresh maps