Garmin custom maps kmz software#

There are some limitations but for this exercise, it was extremely easy. This functionality allows you to create a map overlay which sits on top of your regular map. Garmin introduced the ability to create map overlays not that long ago. It has the ability to create Magellan maps, OziExplorer maps, Touratech maps, and last but not least Garmin Custom KMZ overlay maps. Once you have all of the areas added to your Atlas, you simply choose the “type” of output you want to create. It’s a neat way of keeping them collected together. You can pick as many different locations as you want and simply add them to a single Atlas. You then have the ability to “add” the selection to your new “Atlas”. In this screenshot, I zoomed in to Moncton and selected a large area of the city. You choose the source for your map information and then simply navigate to where you want to snag the images from. Mobile Atlas Creator (which I’ll refer from here on in as MAC) allows you to create various types of maps using a whole multitude of sources, including both Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth. After a post on the Garmin Oregon Wiki page, I was pointed to Mobile Atlas Creator which would turn out to be the best thing I could have found.

Garmin custom maps kmz software#

I knew of software products that could create maps such as OziExplorer but I had also heard that Garmin had released something for creating custom maps for Garmin units. Since I was quite unhappy with the solution Garmin had presented, I decided to go out into the world wide web and attempt to see what others had done. In Part I of this series on Satellite Imagery, I talked about the use of Garmin Birdseye and how it left a lot to be desired.