Tip: adding contour lines to Garmin TopoActive on GPSMAP66st
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:51 am
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.
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.