Open Street Map in Wired

Thanks for the info, would really like to see a GPS use Open Street maps. Locally it is a lot more detailed showing house numbers, apartment numbers than any other maps I have seen.

My nuvi 250 does, and I am under the impression that just about any nuvi could. It is nice to be able to have new maps without paying more than the device is worth.

One downside is that I don't have any of the fancy extra features, like lane assist or speed limit display. But my 250 never had them anyway.

If your unit never had those features, why would you say not having them is a downside?

How do you use those maps? I have a Nuvi 760 I'm not using.

This has been discussed in detail in other threads. See:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/36598

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/40157

and

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/40101

to get started (or search for OSM to find many more). What I found when I did it was that my nuvi firmware had to be updated to allow it to use the larger maps, as originally it just ignored maps over 2 gig in size. I'm now working happily with a fresh free map.

The only other important thing that I restate here is, if you don't already know how to use a bittorrent client, take five minutes and learn to use one. It can save you a lot of time and effort later, both for OSM files and for other things.

Boxcar: I only mentioned that OSM maps don't include some features in other nuvi but not in the 250 so that others don't put a lot of effort into this and then be disappointed when they find them missing. I knew in advance that this was the case so it was not an issue for me.

Oh, I should also mention that even though I have a current OSM map in the nuvi and I have the internal Garmin map disabled, it still occasionally complains on boot that I have an old map and should give Garmin money to change that. Of course, that can be ignored.