Tip: adding contour lines to Garmin TopoActive on GPSMAP66st

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RaoulBE
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Tip: adding contour lines to Garmin TopoActive on GPSMAP66st

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Hi all,

my GPSMAP66st has a preloaded Garmin TopoActive map for Europe, and I noticed that this map has no contour lines. For European countries, these contour lines are available at http://garmin.opentopomap.org/

The contour lines can simply be added as a separate transparant map: pick the "Garmin download" HTTP-download from the desired country, the ZIP-file contains a file <country name>_contours.img. Just copy this file to the GPSMAP66 and enable this map from the Map menu.

Edit: or have a look at http://osm.thkukuk.de/ for Europe, also contains contour lines. Personally I prefer the Open Topo Map contour lines, look better on my GPSMAP66 and have slightly more detail.
--- Raoul from The Netherlands, Quest 1, DriveLuxe 51 LMTS, GPSMAP66st, MS, BC, OSM, CNv9, City Navigator, TopoActive, OpenTopo, Topo NL, Topo BE, JaVaWa ---
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Re: Tip: adding contour lines to Garmin TopoActive on GPSMAP66st

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Great Tip!
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