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Advanced Tools designed to improve your Garmin maps



DEM Hill Shading
  • Investigate the mysteries of Garmin's DEM subfile
  • How to add hill / terrain shading to your own IMG using a DEM subfile
How to add DEM subfiles to Garmin maps
gmp2typ 1.3
  • Extract any TYP file from a gmapsupp.img or any img found on your Garmin up to 2gig in size.
  • Just drop any gmapsup-type img on to the GUI and it will extract the TYP file if present.
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OS50 & Mapnik Typ

Download TYP files

 

OS 25,000 ,OS 50,000 TYP

Mapnik TYP

Active Routing
  • Many Garmin TOPO 2012 maps offer active routing :
    They contain the main cycle,hiking ,mountain biking etc routes which you can have highlighted.
  • We have created a map of all the hiking routes in Devon UK showing appropriate symbols for each route and overlapping colours when routes are combined.
For more information and a free download of Devon Hiking Map check out Active Routing
Garmin Undocumented

Check out our latest Garmin Findings

 

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OSM POIs on Garmin Nuvis
  • Create your own nuvi pois from osm files using our new nuvi osm2poi
  • Includes Devon speed camera and pub POI files
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style2typ
  • Quickly create a TYP file showing all the elements contained in your mkgmap style sheets.
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GUI file structure
  • Garmins POIs, ie speed cameras, are stored in a .gpi file.
  • Learn how to put them onto your car / bike satnav.
  • Learn about the gpi file structure, documented for the first time.
  • Download speed cameras for most countries in Europe.
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Exploring Garmin's IMG Format
  • Ever wanted to unravel Garmin's IMG file type but became daunted by its complexity?
  • Our most popular Exploring IMG Format will help you plot all the highways, polygons and pois in an IMG file and explain what can be retrieved from 'locked' TOPO files.