Hikers can use this feature for long, off-the-beaten-track walks, and it's especially reassuring to follow when the path fades away and you're really off piste.
Not all of those will give you actual maps though, but you can still use the GPS navigation to follow a directional route. Utilizing navigational maps is a relatively easy process and can be done on a range of Garmin devices. We found ourselves using a free desktop software called GPS Babel to perform various conversions on our GPS files.Garmin's GPS sports watches offer tonnes of ways to get more from your workouts, but the ability to add and follow GPX routes and courses is a powerful feature that has a heap of benefits, whether you’re running through the city or hiking across the mountains. Go to and convert your Google KML file into a GPX file making sure you export both Waypoints and Tracks.Click on the folder icon and select export to KML, then Directions to whatever you are heading to.
You now have what Google calls Markers and Directions, otherwise known as Waypoints and Tracks.Drag the line representing your route according to your preferences.Next step is to create directions using the directions tool to connect all your markers, keep in mind that the free version of Google Map Engine can only connect a maximum of 10 markers.You can also add a Marker anywhere on the map using the Marker tool., places added to your map with a red marker Search results are shown on the map with a yellow marker Search for all the places you want to visit and add them to the current map.Create a new map, rename the map and the layer to something meaninglful.Google replaced Map Engine with My Maps, different name, similar functionality. We settled for the following process and have been quite happy with the results so far. In the end things ended up being a bit more complex than we had envisioned. Note that Google Maps can also be made available offline on iPhone by typing “okay maps” into the app search field after having zoomed to the map area you want to save Take advantage of the “make available offline” function available on the Google Map app for Android to download the often more detailed Google Maps.Use OsmAnd Data Management module to directly download OSM maps onto our Android phone.Load Basecamp and our GPSMAP 62sc with OSM maps downloaded from.There are also several country specific open source map projects that offer a greater level of detail than OSM. Maps can be purchased at a fairly high cost from your device’s manufacturer, or downloaded for free from the very cool Open Street Map (OSM) project. Naturally being able to visualise a coordinate in relation to a map is very useful. We learned that a GPS primary function was to track your position and locate coordinates, not display maps. Waypoints, tracks and routes created in Basecamp can be exported as.Basecamp is also the preferred way to exchange data with Garmin GPS devices.It accepts both Garmin expensive maps and OSM free maps as well as a variety of other maps allowing the user to switch maps as needed.Despite being quite prone to crashing and sporting a 80’s interface, this software presents several key advantages:
Garmin Basecamp seemed the only viable solution. We therefore begun searching for a desktop app that would allow us to keep track of the places we wanted to visit, plan our itinerary, document our actual route. Maps: Open Street Maps (OSM) downloaded from, Peru Routable (Perut) from, Google offline mapsīeing on the road meant we would not be able to count on an internet connection and online resources.Devices: Garmin GPSMAP 62SC, Android phone.Software: Garmin Basecamp, Garmin MapManager, Google Map, Map engine free, OsmAnd for Android phones.Here is the setup we ended up taking on the road with us
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