Openmaps is a free map that covers following countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovin, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.
Map is routable with address search. It contains contour lines based on SRTM and land cover polygons from Corine Land Cover 2000 project. Routes and land features are drawn according to GPS tracks. Map is upgraded frequently.
The most advanced and interesting part of this map is Hungary:
Download 354MB: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Map consist of several layers with information like areas, routes, contours, trails, that can be separately switched on and off in Mapsorce. This have some drawbacks when selecting map for sending to GPS. Some info about this concept is here:
Openmaps project offers maps for Garmin, Russa and Navitel. Maps for different countries can be downloaded separately. There is also program for synchronising maps on PC with Openmaps server.
Last edited by Kanopus; 23rd September 2010 at 08:25 PM.
Reason: ignore photobucket
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There is a group of enthusiasts running a site for Garmin-compatible maps of south-eastern Europe, more or less the area which was the K&K AustroHungarian monarchy a hundred years ago .
Interesting info about reason for that particular map area
Something is wrong with separate countries. I downloaded Hungary2D [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
This is the more or less same map as in thread [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] but the latest version can be downloaded without any need for registration.
Setup program doesn't install index files and address serach is broken. This can be corrected with MapSetToolKit - uninstall map from Mapsource (uninstall button on MapSetToolKit) and then install once again, similarly as on following picture:
Last edited by Kanopus; 23rd September 2010 at 08:28 PM.
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