Osm problem on a micro sd card

[kevingrahambutler]

I've uploaded on to a sd card the free osm maps of USA as I'm doing the TAT next year, I installed the sd card in my Montana 650t they work a treat, i put the sd card in my bmw nav IV and it doesn't show the maps, not sure if I need to do something else,

 

[Bear]

It's a while since I last used OSM but from memory, you download a self-extracting executable, unzip it to the SD card and end up with a folder containing gmapprom.img or gmapprom.sup, either of which is suitable. The problem I found was that the folder on the SD card needed to be renamed to Garmin for the Garmin device to recognise the maps in it.

 

[kevingrahambutler]

I'm trying a few things, so thanks for the advice

 

[Wapping]

Found anything that works?

 

[kevingrahambutler]

Found anything that works?

There's two options for down loads one is a map of USA that you can upload straight to a sd card that works fine in both Montana and garmin VI but it's just a road route map the other map is a topo map of North America that has a lot more detail, this one you need to down load then unzip it to basecamp then upload to my nav's memery card,

 

[kevingrahambutler]

I think the problem I'm having is Windows 7, I've update to 10 and now things are starting to work, on my Montana anyway, I'll try the VI in a few days as I'm sick of it now.

 

[kevingrahambutler]

Just a quick up date, after doing a bit of a rummage on the net I've come up with the answer to the problem I'm having, the card 32gb I use is fine on the Montana but the card is to large for the nav VI so I've put the USA on a 8gb and it works fine,
But I did find that there was a proble with Windows 7 now upgraded to 10 all working.

 

[Wapping]

OK, now that you've got OSM onto a card and up and running on your device, could you list out the process, stage by stage, in easy to follow steps. I'm sure bods would appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

[kevingrahambutler]

I will at the weekend wapping, I'll do a link to the site I got the maps from

 

[Wapping]

Excellent.

It's something that lots of bods want to do and / or run into problems with, so a complete step-by-step idiot's guide would be great. Do a good one and I'll sticky it.

Richard

 

[Wapping]

How goes the step by step guide?