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Click the button below and load 00000034.img file. This file contains maps of Beijing. The map is made by author for FREE USE.
Remarks on the map.
- If you can't load map by the button above try this link
- This map is composed on basis of Google Earth pictures (earth.google.com). Part of these pictures are out of date. There are also places with inaccurate stitching (sometimes shifts are up to 40-50 meters). Remember about this.
- It's the fourth version of the map. The map has rivers and lakes, roads, parks, rail roads, airport, Beijing metro lines and Great Wall (Badaling area and Juyongguan Pass). Also you can find street names and sightseeing places. What is new in 5-th version? Olympic buildings and third terminal of Capital Airport were added. Also I added 8-th line of subway (Olympic Line) and Airport Line. There are 4-th and 9-th lines on the map, but the lines don't work yet.
- Size of the map is 2,2 Mb.
- The map appears on GPS screen from 8 km zoom (depending on GPS-navigator model and its settings). As the map is zoomed in the new objects are drawn.
- I have tested this map on Garmin GPSmap 60CSx unit (the model characteristics). I don't know, if the map works with others GPS units. Try yourself.
- Before loading you have to install drivers and software for your GPS (Page with drivers for Garmin GPS).
- Garmin offers its own "MapSource" soft (Page with software for Garmin GPS). But this programm doesn't work with self-made and unofficial maps. Therefore I use another software.
Well if you still want load the map in GPS by MapSource and you don't fear to deal with Windows registry welcome to this page.
You need two programmes : sendmap20.exe and Img2gps.exe. They work together. Img2gps.exe is a Windows GUI for the sendmap20.exe DOS application. The latest free version of the programmes you can load here : homepage.ntlworld.com/mdipol/img2gps. In the same place you can find manual. After installation label of img2gps.exe appears in menu "Start".
Warning!!! When you load new maps in GPS by sendmap20.exe programm the old ones in GPS memory are erased!!!
By the way, MapSource also erases old maps at the time of loading new ones.
There are three solutions for this problem.
- 1-st variant
- You have backup of your maps on hard disk and you don't need of old maps in the moment. In that case just load map of Shanghai in GPS. Later you can restore old maps from backup.
- 2-nd variant
- You don't need of the old maps in the moment, but you don't have backup of your maps on hard disk. In that case you have to get old maps from GPS to your PC. You can do it with help native "Map Source" soft (if maps are official) or GPSDaemon.exe free programme (Load GPSDaemon.exe). Short manual for the software is here. After you get old maps, upload map of Beijing.
- 3-rd variant
- You don't want to delete old maps from GPS. In that case copy map of Beijing and old maps from GPS in same folder on PC. After upload them in GPS together. Old maps will be wiped anyway, but you record them again.
