How to download maps to the navigator, how to download and install them

The question of how to load a map into the navigator can be irrelevant in certain cases. For example, if your device is already purchased with a navigation program. It routes the route according to the cards pre-set by the manufacturer. The base set depends on what kind of navigator you have. That is, maps designed to work with "Navitel", not suitable for working with "Garmin", as well as vice versa.

With all of the above, when speaking about the basic set, it is necessary to understand some of its specifics. It may not contain maps of some regions required by the user. Then, of course, you should know how to upload maps to the navigator additionally. There are several ways to do this. One of these methods is the purchase of license cards, and you can download them for free from the Internet.

Informal maps of different regions are mainly developed on the basis of existing ones. They are produced by advanced users of navigators and, as a rule, the installation of unofficial maps goes without technical support and updates. In addition, they should be read by your navigation program, fit it according to the format.

How to download maps to the navigator, where it is best to take them. A good resource, with which they are created, is "OpenStreetMap". One should take into account the following important remark: the installation of unofficial maps on your navigator involves a certain degree of risk. Accordingly, you should first take care to create backup copies of all available data on your personal computer. Confidence that the software is operative and does not adversely affect the device can give the acquisition and installation of official maps.

How to load maps into the navigator, we will take a step-by-step look at the example of installing the gps-maps "Navitel" :

Step One: Connect the device to your personal computer. If you find an example program on a flash card, it should be extracted from the navigator and opened on a PC. We will work with it.

Step two: On the flash card, you need to create (in the root) a special folder in which third-party maps for the navigator will be placed. You can name it traditionally UserMaps.

Step three: In the created folder "UserMaps" you need to create a subfolder. A map of the corresponding region will be placed in it. It can be called "Region".

Step Four: The necessary map files are copied to the newly created "Region" folder.

Step Five: You need to return the flash card to the navigator and open the "Navitel" program on it. As a result of the manipulations, a menu will appear.

Step Six: In the menu that appears, in the proposed Navitel program, we are interested in the item that allows you to create a new atlas. At the bottom of the window we find the icon with the image of the folder and click on it with the right mouse button.

Step Seven: After completing the previous recommendations, you will see a new window. It will be necessary to find the folder "Region", if you gave it exactly that name. It's about the folder in which new maps are stored. Click on it, and then select the command with which to create an atlas - "Create an atlas." Its creation will be done automatically, and you only need to press the button with a tick. Practically this is all. In the list choose the desired atlas and use new maps!

How to download maps to the browser using the example of free "Garmin":

• From the Garmin.com website, the "MapSource" program must be downloaded and installed on the PC.
• You need to download the necessary "Garmin" maps and put (unpack) them into special folders.
• Each card should be separately installed using the installation file "Install".
• The "MapSource" is started, in which the previously installed maps are detected.
• Available are visible at the top left. Select all the necessary in turn and sent to the device "Garmin". Accordingly, it must be connected in advance.

Thus, we examined the installation of a number of maps in the navigator, which are now popular.