Garmin Edge 705 Maps

[Glover Fan]

Hi all,

I am selling my Forerunner 305 and hoping to buy an Edge 705. Mainly because I am going to attempt a 300km Audax in August and whilst the forerunners primative navigation is great for rides up to 100 miles, it just doesn't have the capacity in battery or memory to take over 100 coursepoints.

I understand the Edge 705 and 800 just come with a basemap as standard and that if you want turn by turn navigation you need a loaded map on a Micro SD card.

I have heard of the Garmin mapping which is about £30-50 for the UK and have also heard something about OpenStreetMaps which are free? (maybe?). I don't have an SD card slot in my PC so not sure I can do anything amazing regarding loading map images and stuff. Just wondered what options I actually have to me. The cheaper the better obviously.

Thanks,

Jon.

 

[musa]

You don't need a memory card reader, its just plug and play. When connected to PC you'll get the folder of the memory card with the Garmin too

 

[berty bassett]

cant remember how exactly i done it but it was something like - open street map , there was one there called gb + contours downloaded that , got a micro sd card for garmin 705, put it in plug garmin in computer then transferred map to card and your all done . gb+contours is routeable so you can create routes on bikeroutetoaster or mapsource and transfer to garmin then follow the pink line . been using it for few years and works a treat - also have the garmin gb v2 map and there are a couple of places that are wrong on that so it aint just how much you spend . with any map though it is worth checking in a different source if you are going a long way just to be sure sorry i cant remember exactly how i done it but it must have been easy or i wouldn't have attempted it - when you first get it dont be put off by the base map - apart from that it is brilliant

 

[theloafer]

I understand the Edge 705 and 800 just come with a basemap as standard and that if you want turn by turn navigation you need a loaded map on a Micro SD card.

I have heard of the Garmin mapping which is about £30-50 for the UK and have also heard something about OpenStreetMaps which are free? (maybe?). I don't have an SD card slot in my PC so not sure I can do anything amazing regarding loading map images and stuff. Just wondered what options I actually have to me. The cheaper the better obviously.

Thanks,

Jon.

hi jon
if your not puter savy give martin at..http://talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm a quick e-mail

 

[fossyant]

The Garmin shows up as a drive if you put a micro sd in it, or just buy a sd card reader, it's a USB device, and you need a micro sd card and reader. Cheap as chips.

 

[Glover Fan]

Cool, I understand. The openstreetmaps, are they good? Are they free? Can you just load a gpx or tcx and it will route you on those maps??

 

[dongo]

Cool, I understand. The openstreetmaps, are they good? Are they free? Can you just load a gpx or tcx and it will route you on those maps??

To answer your questions yes, yes and yes.

I use ridewithgps for route planning and they have good instructions for the 705 here:
http://ridewithgps.com/edge_705

The OSM maps are free, great routable and available here:
http://talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm#GPSRs-Only

There are instructions here:
http://talkytoaster.info/free-uk-maps-faq.htm

As has been said, just download, unzip and put on an SD card - the guy at TalkyToaster will sell you one all prepared for a reasonable fee but it's not hard to do yourself.

 

[Glover Fan]

Wow, fantastic! That all makes perfect sense to me. Now I don't need to buy maps I'll go for the version that comes with speed/cadence monitor.

Thanks!