Putting a Topo on a GPS

[perchsoup]

Anyone have experience putting a topo map on a GPS? I was thinking about upgrading my GPS to a better model where you get a topo loaded onto it but I was researching online and found you can build and install smaller gps maps on my Garmin etrex 10. Does anyone have experience with building and extracting a topo map for this?

[hunter_mike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pg17-CIXSU

[perchsoup]

Thanks Mike. And thanks DIYSportsman, I will try this tonight.

[perchsoup]

I gave it ago the other night. Turns out the etrex 10 will only work with a .img file. I was able to create other topos but not in the right file format. So, now I am searching to find a topo in .img format and small enough to fit on my gps's limited memory. I will report back if I am successful.

[Ragingun]

I have the Garmin Montana "T" model that comes with the topo maps on it. I've downloaded satellite imagery through the Garmin BirdsEyeView which overlays on the topo maps. Since I hunt almost exclusively private land I also downloaded the land ownership maps for my state through ONX maps which overlays on top of everything else. Works really really well.

[headgear]

There are free topo apps for your phone and they work pretty well, maybe not as good as a high powered GPS but almost everybody has a phone these days.

[EdC]

Hi this is my first post here stumbled upon the Beast

Hoping to nail my first buck, had several near misses

I own an Etrex 10 myself searched high and low for the solution after finally buying a GPS unit

here is a video that worked for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex7fGF2sXqk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-vw0bu_FE

The guys voice is a little mono tone but his videos worked

You can google a convertor to change a jpg file to img is how I did it

Hope this helps

Ed