How exactly to Download a GPS Map

[Micheal Jorden]

If you intend to visit the world or participate in a geocaching adventure, carrying a whole file of digital country maps for the GPS receiver is very important. And while cities and states continue to develop and build more streets, highways and shorter routes to go from city to city or state to state, you will need to periodically update your existing maps to keep an eye on changes on the routes and traffic system of the places you travel.

Aside from roads, business addresses also vary from time and energy to time. Updating your pre-loaded points of interests is equally important. Hence, there's a consistent need to download maps to keep your GPS database around date. In this way, you'll do not have any problem driving or traveling over any country or continent.

But before you begin going through websites and downloading digital map files, you will need to focus on certain facets of your GPS receiver to make sure that you won't waste your hard earned money on unnecessary downloads or on maps that your device cannot read. First, check whether your GPS has custom map utilities. In this way, you only need to use this utility to produce necessary changes to the facts of your digital maps. If you will need a new map, make sure that you complete the required download requirements. First, you will need to make sure that the digital map format is supported by the type of brand of your GPS receiver. With 3rd party map downloads, you will need to make sure that a third party download utility exists on your GPS receiver.

Usually, the steps of downloading GPS maps vary on the model of GPS. As an example subnautica map, with Garmin GPS, you first need to visit the Map and Chart Products page of the Garmin website and connect your GPS to your computer. For free map updates and downloads, you should have the serial quantity of the GPS device you've previously bought. If you haven't yet registered your device on the website, fill in the registration form available on the internet site in order to avail free map downloads. After successfully registering the serial number, you will be automatically be directed to the information page of available updates. If you see an immediate telling that "no updates are available", then you are set. If update can be obtained, then follow the prompt of downloading the map update.

For Magellan GPS receivers, the steps are basically the same. Open the Magellan website and navigate your method to the Download and Content Manager Toolbox. Next, find the updates and map files that you might want and follow the download prompt. Plug in your Magellan GPS receiver and install the updates on the device. Click "OK" on the download box to initiate the update. After the download is complete, disconnect your Magellan GPS from your personal computer and begin using your maps.

Apparently, you will find websites that feature custom maps or maps produced by GPS users like you. Such maps could have been developed utilising the custom map utilities of their GPS device. Files of the maps are shared for free in a few websites. Without any cost map downloads are everywhere in the Internet. Whatever you should do is search them on Google or Yahoo, enter "free GPS map" and click on the "download" box. Just make sure that you obtain the best format and the best map you will need to produce traveling hassle-free.