Garmin Support Centre is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products.
- Improved MapInstall software update procedure. Fixed an issue with MapInstall not correctly detecting another instance of itself. Fixed an issue when MapInstall encountered bad files in some map installations. Fixed an issue with writing map images to Garmin mode USB devices. Added support for new Garmin devices.
- Garmin MapInstall is a simple map management wizard that enables you to select and combine maps located on your computer and download them to your GPS. We recommend that you combine our transparent snowmobile or ATV trail maps with a topographic background map. MapInstall is a simple and quick way to accomplish this.
- Garmin Support Center United Kingdom is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products.
- MapInstall and MapManager for the Mac. This download area offers free firmware upgrades for select Garmin® units. These upgrades are specific to the specific GPS units and software versions listed. This software should only be uploaded to the unit for which it is intended.
Combine and Download Maps with Garmin MapInstall
Download and install Garmin programs you may need.
Download Garmin BaseCamp from the Garmin website here. Run the downloaded program to install BaseCamp on your PC.
You need to download and install BaseCamp to qualify to download and install the MapInstall and MapSource programs.
You can download Garmin MapInstall for free from the Garmin website here. Run the downloaded program to install.
Our trail maps are made known to Garmin BaseCamp, MapInstall and MapSource when your run our trail map installer programs that you download from our website.
Much of our documentation references Garmin MapSource,MapSource can be found here.
Select multiple maps for Download from your PC to a GPS
The following screen shots illustrate how to use Garmin MapInstall to select maps for download to your GPS.
In this example, we will select map segments from the free topographical map we ordered from here.We combine these topographical maps with our snowmobile trail maps for NewHampshire, Maine and Vermont that we ordered from here.
To run MapInstall use your Windows Start button
Start->All Programs->Garmin->MapInstall
Figure 1 – Run Garmin MapInstall
Connect your PC to your GPS
Connect your GPS to your PC with a USB cable. Wait until your GPS enters interface mode. Some older GPS models require that you issue commands on the GPS to enter interface mode. Refer to your the instruction manual for your GPS to learn how to enable interface mode.
Figure 2 – Connect GPS – Select storage drive
Select a target Storage drive – main storage or micro-sd
Figure 3 – Micro-sd card drive selected
Select map products and map segments for download
The dropdown menu at the bottom center of the screen is used to select from the maps that are installed on your PC.
n this example, the New England Topographic map is selected.
Figure 4 – Continue to display maps installed on PC
Use the Pan and Zoom controls to bring the map areas you are interested in into view.
Figure 5 – Pan andZoom to area of interest
Select map areas
You can select all or a portion of large maps. For example, you could select Maine, and New Hampshire and Vermont areas from the New England topographic map and skip Massachusetts as shown in figure 6.
Figure 6– Click and Drag box to select
Figure 7 – Selected map areas are highlighted
Use the map product dropdown to select another map
Figure 8 – Select different map with dropdown
Figure 9 – Click and drag to select map areas
Figure 10 – Selected Map areas indicated
Click continue after all desired maps are selected
The map products that you selected from are listed, along with the target drive where they will be saved. Ignore the comment that says that it could take hours. It usually takes minutes. Click on the Install button to begin downloading the maps to your GPS.
Figure 11 – Lists maps selected and target drive
Figure 12 – Building map sets progress bar
Figure 13 – Downloading maps to GPS progress
Garmin Mapinstall And Mapmanager
Click on Finish when the program indicates successful completion
You can now disconnect your GPS from your PC. The maps will be visible on your GPS and ready for use.
Garmin Mapinstall Pc
Figure 14 – Download toGPS completed