Free maps for your Garmin outdoor GPS

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For my starting geocaching adventure I bought a Garmin Etrex 20 GPS. The only map it has on board is a demo and only shows major roads. So I needed a topografic map with all the streets and cart-tracks for easier navigation to the several caches.

After some Googling, I found the solution for free: OpenStreetMap for Garmin devices.

You can download there the maps for BaseCamp or generic maps you can install directly on to your device

Update 25/11/18:

I recently upgraded to an etrex 25t, but the pre installed maps gave an error while trying to update them, so I looked for a temporary solution for having up to date maps until I get this problem sorted with Garmin customers service

Free topographic maps:

http://garmin.opentopomap.org

http://www.frikart.no/index.html

Free biking maps:

http://www.openfietsmap.nl

Free biking and hiking maps:

https://openmtbmap.org

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