Tips 'n Tools

Img2gps is a small program based on "sendmap", it's basically the GUI for sendmap. With Img2GPS you can easily send one or more .img file directly to your Garmin GPS device. ... more

Some of the links here refer to maps in russa format. But those can be changed to the Garmin .img format quite easily. To do that you need the program GPSMapEdit and cGPSMapper. ... more

If you only have .img files from your maps and don't have the aditional files needed to integrate it into Mapsource you have two possibilities to deal with that. ... more

Are you also annoyed that Metroguide maps don't support autorouting? But you find the City-navigator to expensive? ... more

Quite often the maps are not available as .exe file which integrates the map automatically into Mapsource but as a .zip file which includes all the necessary files to do that manually. ... more

GPSMapEdit is a really nice program which allows you to open maps, look at them, edit them and convert them to different formats. ... more

cGPSMapper allows you to create your own maps for Garmin GPS devices. Many programs expect you to have cGPSMapper installed to be able to use them. ... more

GPSBabel is a nice small program which allows you to convert all kinds of tracks and waypoints from one format to the other. Very useful, and for free. ... more

Raster maps are basically scans of a normal paper map. That means that the informations in the map are only available all together. ... more

Vector maps are maps which consist of points, lines and polygons. That means that they are quite schematic, but can contain more information like e.g. streetnames. ... more