#Topo maps for garmin basecamp mac os#
#Topo maps for garmin basecamp install#

#Topo maps for garmin basecamp install#

Double-clicking it will open Garmin’s MapManager application which will ask you if you want to install the map.

After JaVaWa MapConverter is finished, in the finder, go to the saved.

Click the “Convert” button and choose where to save the.

JaVaWa MapConverter should now be ready to convert the file.

When asked to select the “.img” file, choose “Ibycus Topo 4.0.img” from the drop down menu.

Now, drag the “img” folder onto the JaVaWa MapConverter window.

Move the following files from the folder you created in step 3 and into the “imgs” folder.

Copy the entire contents of the Ibycus Topo 4.0 disk image to folder on your hard drive - you are going to move some files around and the disk image is read-only.

Double clicking the ISO file will mount a new disk on your computer.

Ibycus Topo 4.0 is downloaded as an ISO file (this is a DVD disk image).

Launch JaVaWa MapConverter (on OS X 10.8 and later, right-click on the JaVaW MapConverter application icon the first time and choose the “Open” menu item - this will ask if you want to bypass OS X’s developer signing restrictions - click the “Open” button).

Download and install JaVaWa MapConverter.

I will assume you have your Windows map files already. (Caveat: since JaVaWa is a free tool and not supported by Garmin, it is not guaranteed to work, and I have no idea how it works with locked maps). gmap format, and I thought I would use that as an example of converting Garmin Windows maps for use on a Mac. Today, I was able to convert Ibycus 4.0 to Mac. I was able to find a copy of version Ibycus 3.2 for Mac, but I could only ever find the Windows version of Ibycus 4.0. You need to download a copy using BitTorrent. Because this is a very large map, Ibycus does not distribute the files directly.

I use the Ibycus Topo Canada map as my main map for off-the-beaten-path adventures. You will of course need Java installed on your Mac, which it may not be by default. Both have a graphical user interface, but I found JaVaWa MapConverter easier to use. If you only have a Mac computer, there are two free utilities available to that convert Windows Garmin-compatible maps to the Mac BaseCamp-compatible format: JaVaWa MapConverter and Gmapibuilder. Apparently it can convert your maps to the Mac format. Simply download and install Garmin’s MapConverter on your Windows computer. If you have maps on a Windows computer already, and would like to move them to a Mac, then you are in luck. There are two methods for converting Windows Garmin-compatible maps to BaseCamp for Mac: 1) on a Windows XP or later computer, or 2) on a Mac. Even Garmin’s own Mac BaseCamp application does not support Windows’ BaseCamp maps.

#Topo maps for garmin basecamp mac os#

For some legacy reason, the file formats for Garmin-compatible maps differs between Windows and Mac OS X.