I am hoping someone can help me find a way to load custom maps into my GPS so that I can use maps like ones you find on State Park sites. No resizing, skewing, rotating pictures like in Google Earth. The thing I like about the GIS tutorials is that, to georeference, you just click on correlating points.

I have seen many tutorials about using QGIS, ArcGIS, Qmapshack, etc.but nothing about how to make a custom map for a Garmin device. In the extracted files, I saw that the images were actually png files. So, I decided to try to unpack some kmz files I had made using Keka. Today, while reading around the web, I came across (maybe not the first time?) Garmin's General Guidelines for Creating Garmin Custom Maps. The 66st came out recently and I convinced myself that an updated unit would help (actually, just wanted something new). I followed many guides on Garmin and other places to do this, but none work. When I have loaded it into my 64s, it has never actually worked for me. Seems like if CalTopo can do this - so should Gaia.Hello, I have tried for many years to take a State Parks PDF, load it into Google Earth, georeference it, and export it as a KMZ file. Here is an example of an area - and overlays that I would like to download as 1:24k scale and add to my Garmin device: I think if I can get the KML to download correctly, it is an easy conversion to a zip KMZ extension.

The data also needs (I believe) to come in KMZ in order to function properly. When I create an 'area' in Gaia and download as KML it does not feature the same detail - actually I can not get it to download a file larger than 2kb (expecting files that are multiple GB). Is this same functionality available in Gaia? I can not seem to find anything similar. Instructions found here:ĬalTopo has recently changed their user settings and this AMAZING feature is now pay to play - which is fine, however, since I am already paying for Gaia I do not want to pay for another mapping software. Previously I was using CalTopo to create custom maps in order to add them to my Garmin device and Google Earth for my backcountry adventures and planning.

Garmin custom maps from google earth